About Interpremy

Interpremy was founded in 2019 out of a desire to translate our research insights into high-quality training solutions for tangible professional challenges. Since then, it has grown and evolved along with our research and expertise.

Dr. Francesca Maria Frittella

I am a conference interpreter and translator, researcher, trainer, and educational consultant. In Interpremy, I combine my passion and expertise in these different yet closely connected areas.

After my Master’s degree in Conference Interpreting (MA) from the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz/Germersheim, I worked as a conference interpreter on-site in Germany and China as well as remotely while living in New Zealand.

I discovered a passion for research and teaching early on. I explored the causes for interpreters’ errors when interpreting numbers in my Bachelor’s thesis, which was published as a book upon endorsement of my university. I built up on this work in my Master’s degree thesis, in which I developed and tested a course on the simultaneous interpretation (SI) of numbers. This work fed into the workshops on numbers you can find here on Interpremy.

In 2020-24, I conducted a PhD project at the University of Surrey (UK) on how professional interpreters use computer-assisted interpreting (CAI) tools during SI. In the project, I defined the skills needed to perform CAI effectively and proposed some research-backed principles for training those skills. Interpremy’s CAI workshops are based on this research.

Since 2022, I have worked as an educational consultant specialising in evidence-informed educational development, assessment, and AI in education at the University of Twente (NL). Together with my PhD, this experience feeds into my activity as a consultant for interpreter education and training.

Collaborations

Dr. Bianca Prandi

I am privileged to have started Interpremy with the support of Dr. Bianca Prandi—one of the leading experts on computer-assisted interpreting and cognition. She still provides invaluable input to the project, with whom I collaborate on some workshops and research.

Bianca holds a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Mainz/Germersheim, where she has been researching Computer-Assisted Interpreting (CAI) from a pedagogical and a cognitive standpoint after graduated summa cum laude in Interpreting (MA) from the University of Bologna/Forlì in 2015.