Maryam Pakzadian received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (TEFL) in 2017. She is currently an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) where she works on Pedagogical Construction Grammar.

As a visiting scholar at University of Birmingham between January and July 2023, she collaborates with Prof. Dagmar Divjak on finding innovative ways to teach EFL learners syntactic alternations.