Since October 2021, I have been a PhD student and research officer at the Chair of Information Science at the University of Regensburg (Germany). I previously also worked as a research assistant at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) in Prof. Dimitri Ognibene’s BiConnect Lab, collaborating on the VolkswagenStiftung-funded COURAGE research project. I hold both a Bachelor’s degree in Information Science/Business Information Systems and a Master’s degree in Information Science from the University of Regensburg. My research interests focus on Natural Language Processing and Graph Machine Learning, particularly in the areas of Information Retrieval and applications in the medical domain. In addition, I serve as an elected committee member of the British Computer Society’s Information Retrieval specialist Group (BCS IRSG) for the 2023–2025 term.