I joined the University of Edinburgh as a Senior Lecturer in Language Education in January 2023. Before then I held appointments at three UK universities: Teaching Assistant at Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland), Lecturer at the University of Stirling (Scotland), and Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia (England). These appointments have provided me with wide first-hand knowledge of the UK higher education sector. I have extensive experience of language teaching in several educational contexts and of teacher education at university level. I started my career as a language teacher, delivering classes on English as a foreign language to students of different ages (from young learners to seniors), at diverse proficiency levels (from complete beginners to advanced ones), in a range of contexts (e.g. primary/secondary/tertiary levels, language institutes), and for different purposes (e.g. general, specific and academic). I then moved on to higher education and have extensive experience of both face-to-face and online teaching/learning. I have worked in Schools of English and Education, and I have a range of teaching/research interests in English language, Applied Linguistics and Education (e.g. corpus linguistics, data-driven learning, Teaching English to speakers of other languages, English for academic purposes, language teacher education and academic/pedagogical discourse analysis). I have delivered guest lectures on my areas of expertise in several countries (e.g. Germany, Hungary and Japan), and I have been invited to teach postgraduate courses in countries such as Brazil and Ukraine.