2008: Staatsexamen Lehramt an Gymnasien, University of Freiburg
2001–2008: Studies of English and French, Lehramt an Gymnasien, University of Freiburg
Degrees
2021: Habilitation (venia legendi Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft), University of Mannheim
Cumulative habilitation thesis: Contact-induced structural change in Middle English: an integrative
approach to developing resources and modelling language contact
Habilitation talk: Towards automated grassroots prescriptivism? Principles and efficacy of
grammar-correcting bots
2012: Dr. phil., University of Freiburg
Dissertation: Accent unites, syntax divides? Varying degrees of nativisation of English in
Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia
Career
Since 2022:
Project coordinator of the Research Unit Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and
Change, University of Mannheim, funded by the DFG
Researcher and lecturer, University of Mannheim
2015–2021: Postdoctoral researcher in the research project Borrowing of Argument Structure in
Contact Situations, University of Mannheim, funded by the DFG
2013–2015: Postdoctoral researcher in the research project Représentations discursives de variétés
orales à l'écrit dans le texte littéraire de l'espace anglophone (Representations of oral varieties
of language in the literature of the English-speaking world), University of Strasbourg, funded by the
Initiative d’excellence (IDEX, French initiative of excellence)
2012–2013: Researcher and lecturer, University of Freiburg
2008–2012: Doctoral studies in English Philology, University of Freiburg, funded by a doctoral grant
from the Hermann Paul School of Linguistics Basel - Freiburg