Anastasia Khaylina Tezikova is currently a doctoral candidate in the PhD programme in Philosophy and Arts, in the branch of Linguistic Studies at the University of Alicante. She graduated in English Studies and took a Master's degree in English and Spanish for Specific Purposes at the University of Alicante. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on conversational humour in Spanish under the supervision of Dr. Mª Belén Alvarado Ortega. Her research interests focus on pragmatics, corpus linguistics and humour in interaction.

She has collaborated for three years as a pre-doctoral researcher in the GRIALE group project entitled PROMETEO/2021/079 "Pragmatic labelling for an observatory of the identity of women and men through humour. The OBSERVAHUMOR.COM platform" directed by Dr. Leonor Ruiz Gurillo. During this period, she has collaborated in teaching activities corresponding to the Spanish Studies Area for a total of 90 hours. In October 2024 she joined the Research Talent Attraction Unit (UATI) as a Senior Technologist.

She has published three book reviews and a monographic article in the scientific journals Journal of Pragmatics, Estudios de Lingüística and Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicació, as well as a monographic chapter in the Tirant lo Blanch publishing house. She has also coordinated, organised and communicated on more than 13 international conferences, as well as carrying out a research stay at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage of the University of Aix-Marseille.