Curriculum vitae

Personal information

Name: Atilla Atasoy

Date of birth: 10. April 1993

Place of birth: Wattwil SG, Switzerland

Nationality: Switzerland / Turkey (dual citizenship)

Residency: Switzerland

E-mail: contact@atilla-atasoy.com

Current affiliation & work experience

DIGITAL EXPERIENCE MANAGER II
CONVERSATIONAL EXPERIENCE DESIGNER

Swisscom, Zürich | 07/2022 – today

» Conversational Designer @ PLATO with responsibilities and contributions to the Conversation Design for chat and voice bots in Team Botijelly

» Business Representative & Analyst for B2C-CED-DSI @ PLATO

Educational Background

09/2019 - 09/2021: PhD Candidate in the International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain (IDEALAB)

  • 09/2018 - 08/2019: Mobility as a scholarship PhD student at the University of Potsdam, Germany

  • 09/2019 - 09/2021: PhD student and full-time employee at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands

  • 09/2021: Submission of the doctoral dissertation at the University of Potsdam, Germany

  • Dissertation: Production, perception, and processing of focus in Turkish

  • Supervisors: Prof. Dr Barbara Höhle; Dr. Srđan Popov

  • Final predicate: Magna cum Laude

09/2016 - 09/2018: European Master in Clinical Linguistics (EMCL), University of Potsdam, Germany

  • First semester at the University of Eastern Finland with emphasis on the fundamentals of statistics, the fundamentals of neuro- and psycholinguistics, and language technology

  • Second semester at the University of Potsdam, Germany with emphasis on statistics, psycholinguistics, and experimental approaches to language

  • Third semester at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands with emphasis on aphasiology, neuroimaging and language mapping during awake brain surgery

  • Fourth semester at the University of Eastern Finland for Master’s thesis writing

  • Master’s thesis: Simulating Grammatical Encoding with Multi-Label Decision Tree Classifiers - An Investigation into the Loci of Impairment in Turkish-Speaking Individuals with Agrammatism

  • Supervisors: Prof. Dr Stefan Werner & Prof. Dr Roelien Bastiaanse

  • Final predicate: Excellent (Grade A)

08/2013 - 06/2016: Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, University of Bern, Switzerland

  • Study emphases:

    Historical linguistics, Trans-Himalayan languages, language evolution, morpho-syntax, phonetics & phonology

  • Bachelor’s thesis: Towards a description of the autolalic future in Dzongkha - An interview-based qualitative study

  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr George van Driem

  • Final predicate: Insigni cum laude (Grade 5.52/6)

Prizes, Fellowships, & Scholarships

09/2019 - 09/2021: IDEALAB Fellowship at the University of Potsdam, Germany (scholarship of 1500 Euros/month); University of Groningen, the Netherlands (full-time employment);
and Macquarie University, Australia (tuition scholarship)

27/06/2021: Valedicotrian of the academic year 2018/19 at the University of Potsdam, Germany

26/02/2019: Pro-gradu award for the year 2018, awarded by the Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY, Suomen kielitieteellinen yhdistys) (250 Euros)

09/2013 - 09/2018: Fellowship for excellent students at the Swiss Study Foundation

09/2015 - 08/2018: Suyana Scholarship of the Swiss Study Foundation, offered by the Suyana Foundation, Switzerland (1200 CHF/month)

Further academic affiliations

  • President of the students' association of the Linguistics Department, University of Bern - Switzerland (Sep. 2015 - June 2016)

  • Student representative in the structural commission of the German Language and Literature Department, University of Bern - Switzerland (Aug. 2015 - March 2016)

  • Member of the students' association of the Linguistics Department, University of Bern - Switzerland (Feb. 2014 - Aug. 2015)

Independent education