2025 – present
University of Cologne, MESH – Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities,
Senior Researcher (wiss. MA, E14), German Linguistics
2022 – present
University of Cologne, Department of German Language and Literature I,
Associated Researcher and Lecturer in German Linguistics
2025 (April )
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Brescia)
Teaching Fellow in German Linguistics (Erasmus+)
2022 – 2025
University of Cologne, MESH – Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities,
Postdoctoral Researcher (wiss. MA, E13), German Linguistics
2021 – present
University of Bonn, Center for Life Ethics, Associated Researcher, Subproject Leader
2024 (April – May)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Brescia),
Research & Teaching Fellow in German Linguistics (Erasmus+)
2019 – 2022
University of Koblenz and Landau, Institute for German Philology and Cultural Studies,
Postdoctoral Researcher (wiss. MA) in German Linguistics
2021 – present
Gesellschaft für Hochschulgermanistik (GfH) in the DGV,
Representative for the site Koblenz (2021/2022) and Cologne (2022 – present) as well as scientific expert for Applied Linguistics
2019 – 2021
University of Cologne, Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health (ceres), Research Fellow
2016 – 2018
University of Cologne, Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health (ceres), Research Assistant (wiss. MA); Coordinator of a binational research project
2018
Dr. phil.; German Linguistics (summa cum laude), Heidelberg University, supervision: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Konerding, Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Felder, title of publication: Sustainability in Economy and Society. A Discourse-Linguistic Analysis of Argumentation and Communication Strategies (Argumentation und Persuasion. Diskurslinguistische Untersuchungen zum Thema der ökologischen Nachhaltigkeit in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft)
2016 – 2018
Heidelberg University, German Seminar,
Lecturer in German Linguistics
2014 (August – November)
McGill University Montreal, Canada, Bieler School of Environment,
Predoctoral Fellow/Graduate Research Trainee (funded by the DAAD)
2013-2016
Heidelberg University, German Seminar,
Doctoral Candidate (scholarship funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation, DBU) & DBU-Spokeswoman for scholarship holders
2012 – 2014
Heidelberg University, Transcultural Studies,
Scientific Administration und Organisation
2012
Heidelberg University, Faculties of Philosophy and Modern Languages,
M.A. in German Studies and Philosophy
Memberships
Linguistic Networks:
International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) and the German Sub-Organization (GAL)
International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Society for Higher Education German Studies/Deutscher Germanistenverband (DGV)
Research Network Language and Knowledge/Forschungsnetzwerk Sprache (SuW)
Cologne Center of Language Sciences, University of Cologne (CCLS)
European Center for Linguistics/Europäisches Zentrum für Sprachwissenschaft (EZS)
Network Diskurs – interdisziplinär des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)
Interdisciplinary Networks:
Center for Language, Information and Philosophy, University of Cologne (CLIP)
Alumni Network of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
DFG-Network Linguistics and Medicine/Linguistik und Medizin (LuM)
AG Language and Ethics of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM)
Intersections in Dementia Discourse. Interdisciplinary & International Roundtable
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