Current position
since October 2022: Professor for French linguistics (docent), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2014-2022
Post-doc researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Languages and the department of Dutch linguistics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2019-2021
Acting Professor for pragmatics and comparative linguistics, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
2021
Title of docent for Romance and Creole Linguistics, University of Turku, Finland (‚Adjunct Professor‘)
2017-2018
Coordinator of degree programmes offered by the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Languages: BA in Sociolinguistics, MA in Linguistics
2017
- PI of the project Linguistic and social dynamics in hierarchic relationships between dominant and non-dominant languages in cooperation with the University of Eastern Finland, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Visiting scholar at University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu) and University of Turku, Finland – September 2017
Sep/Oct 2015 & Feb 2016
Visiting scholar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
2015-2019
Member of the board, Interdisciplinary Centre for European Languages, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Mar 2015
Guest lecturer at University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu
2014
Post-doc researcher at the Chair for Contemporary German Language, Potsdam University, Germany
2013-2014
Post-doc researcher in the transfer project T1 („The many sides of German“) of the collaborative research area „Information Structure“ (SFB 632), Potsdam University, Germany
2013
PhD in French linguistics, Potsdam University, Germany
2010-2013
Member of the research group „Philology and Racism in the 19th Century“ (funded by the Emmy Noether programme of the German Research Foundation DFG), Potsdam University, Germany
2004-2009
Interdisciplinary Studies on Contemporary France (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Institut d’Études Politiques Strasbourg, France): French linguistics, European law, political science
2003
Final secondary school exam in Homburg/Saarland, Germany, (‚Abitur‘ with majors in French, English, political science)
