CV

born in Essen in 1978

Education

Habilitation: Universität Regensburg - English Linguistics
Thesis: "Structural nativization in Ghanaian English" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Edgar Schneider)

2012: PhD: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen – English Linguistics
Thesis: "A sociophonetic study of Aberdeen English: innovation and conservatism" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Magnus Huber)

2005: 1. Staatsprüfung für die Lehrämter für die Sekundarstufe II und für die Sekundarstufe I: Universität Duisburg-Essen – English, English, Pedagogy, Education

1998: Abitur - Gymnasium Borbeck, Essen

Academic positions held/offered

since 2023: Universität Regensburg - Akademischer Rat (Lecturer)

2022-2023: Universität Bayreuth - Acting Chair of English Linguistics

2022: Universität Regensburg - Akademischer Rat (Lecturer)

2020-2022: Universität Regensburg - Acting Chair of English Linguistics

2019: Universität Bayreuth - Offered Acting Chair of English Linguistics  (declined)

2015-2020: Universität Regensburg - Akademischer Rat (Lecturer)

2014-2015: Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster - Acting Chair of English Linguistics

2012-2015: Technische Universität Chemnitz - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Lecturer)

2005-2011: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research assistant)

Research projects

since 2020: Namibian English (with Anne Schröder)

since 2018: Phonetics and phonology of Botswanan English

since 2018: The English of Children and Adolescents in Cameroon: Sociolinguistic and acquisitional perspectives (with Samuel Atechi and Giuliana Regnoli)

since 2013: A real-time study of structural nativization in Ghanaian English

since2011: An acoustic-phonetic description of Ghanaian English

2010-2012: Areal features of African Englishes (with Magnus Huber)

2006-2012: A sociophonetic study of Aberdeen English

2004: Phonological variation in Glaswegian adolescents