Academic Work
- 04/2020 –
Lecturer and research fellow, Institute of English & American Studies, Technical University Braunschweig (Holger Hopp’s lab) - 10/2018 – 03/2020
Adjunct lecturer, Institute of English & American Studies, Technical University Braunschweig - 08/2017 – 10/2018
Postdoc in the Collaborative Research Council 732 Incremental Specification in Context,
Institute of Linguistics/ English Linguistic, University of Stuttgart (Sabine Zerbian’s lab) - 03/2013 – 07/2017
Postdoc in the Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Esther Ruigendijk’s lab, Department of Dutch Studies, University of Oldenburg - 01/2011 – 04/2013
Research assistant in the EFRE-funded project HurDig (Network for multilingual Hearing and Speech Intelligibility Diagnostics), Birger Kollmeier’s lab;
Medical Physics Department, University of Oldenburg - 02/2008 – 08/2012
Research assistant in the DFG project AULIN (Speech perception and speech processing in acoustically adverse conditions from an AUdiological and psychoLINguistic viewpoint),
Department of Dutch Studies, University of Oldenburg - 2007
Research assistant (WiHi) in Richard Wiese’s lab;
Institute of Germanic Linguistics, University of Marburg
Education
- 02/2020
teach4TU ‘Basis Lehre’ certificate (university teaching qualification), TU Braunschweig
- 2008 – 2012
Phd studies at the Department of Dutch Studies, University of Oldenburg
DISSERTATION: “Effects of Syntactic Complexity and Prosody on Sentence Comprehension and Processing in Noise“
Graduation in June 2012 with distinction summa cum laude - 2001 – 2007
Magister studies in English Linguistics (major), German Linguistics (minor), and Linguistic Engineering (minor) at the University of Marburg
M.A. THESIS: “Word Stress in English Pseudo Words”
Grants
Associated Junior Fellowship at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute of Advanced Study, Delmenhorst. 07/2014-06/2016. Psycholinguistic Models as Explanatory Links between Hearing Impairment and Functional Communication Deficits (International Symposium, held 15-16 October 2015).