EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

February 2019: Defence PhD thesis (summa cum laude)

Since January 2019: Teacher trainee (Goethe-Gymnasium Freiburg)

August 2018: Submission PhD thesis

July 2016: SFB 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding", Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Research stay

September 2015 - August 2018: Doctoral student, Research training group GRK DFG 1624/1 "Frequency effects in language"

February 2015 - August 2015: Research assistant, English Department, Freiburg University (chair: Christian Mair)

November 2014: Staatsexamen Paedagogy, Heidelberg University

April 2014: Staatsexamen English & Biology, Heidelberg University (major, with distinction)

September 2009 - June 2010: Erasmus, University of Leeds, UK

June 2006: Abitur, Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Crailsheim

TALKS and PRESENTATIONS

05/2017: "Caught between convention and innovation: The case of the progressive in spoken British English" (talk), ICAME 38, Charles University Prague

04/2017: "A change under its own momentum? The progressive’s frequency increase in spoken British English" (talk), Santiago-Leuven-Edinburgh Seminar "Grammatical Variation and Change in English", University of Leuven

07/2016: "Changing Progressive Use in Contemporary Spoken English – Evidence from a New Corpus of Spoken English" (talk), Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation & Interpreting, Saarland University

06/2016: "A New Corpus of Spoken English - Extending the Diachronic Scope of the DCPSE" (talk), International workshop "Historical Corpus Linguistics: Methods and Applications", SFB 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, Saarland University

12/2015: "Using the Listening Project for a New Corpus of Spoken English" (poster), International FRIAS & GRK 1624 workshop "Oral History Meets Linguistics", University of Freiburg

TEACHING

"Tense & Aspect" (seminar) Summer Term 2017

OTHER

28/07/2015 - 07/08/2015: European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology", Leipzig University