Job description

Khadij Gharibi is currently working in Section for Research and Innovation (SeFI) as an EU grant Adviser. Prior to that she was a Researcher funded by an award from Aurora Outstanding  entitled "Bridging the gap between MSCA and ERC". Khadij  finished her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, during which she worked on her project CLICK on Cross-linguistic influence of societal languages ​​​​​​​​​​​on the same heritage language in heritage speakers of Persian in different countries in Europe. Prior to this project, Khadij was a Newton Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Essex, where she conducted a research project funded by the British Academy on the role of attrited input in heritage language development.  She completed her PhD in Applied Linguistics fully funded by a Doctoral Scholarship at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.  Working simultaneously on Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics of heritage language bilingualism, Khadij's research interests are focused on acquisition, attrition and maintenance of heritage languages.