I’m a proactive and creative consultant and researcher; I’m experienced in personnel management, in working independently, and in a team. I have a lot of teaching experience with pupils and students and some in informal BA thesis supervision. Furthermore I have strong project management skills.
Institute for Security and Safety GmbH at the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences
At the Institute for Security and Safety my main objectives are the strategic development of the institute and the expansion of cooperation projects. Thus, I'm also the personal point of contact for all cooperation partners.
Intelligent Media Systems AG, Karlsruhe
Consulting for companies of different sectors for the use of e-learning media as well as conception, project planning and project management for the creation of e-learning media, such as web-based trainings, object-based learning and learning games.
Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS Mannheim), Department “Pragmatics”
Project coordination of the bilateral DFG/ANR funded project "Segmentation of Oral Corpora" (SegCor).
Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS Mannheim) & University of Heidelberg
Member of the Leibniz Science Campus “Empirical Linguistics & Computational Language Modeling”, a cooperation of the Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Heidelberg and the IDS Mannheim.
University of Mannheim, Department of Diachronic Linguistics
Teaching an advanced seminar (MA) “Comparative Corpus Linguistics” with Prof. Dr. Carola Trips and supporting her in literature research, editing articles, books and presentations.
Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Department “Pragmatics”
Transcribing and orthographically normalizing data for the FOLK project (Research and Teaching Corpus of German Spoken Language). State exam thesis on a first analysis of part-of-speech tagging of German spoken data which was the basis of the development of the PhD project.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools
Teaching German and being part of the “Foreign Language Assistant Ambassador”-Program - UK-German Connection, a joint project of the federal foreign office of Germany, the KMK (standing conference of the ministers of education and cultural affairs), the Goethe Institute and the British Council (Edinburgh/London).
University of Mannheim, Department of English Linguistics
Organization of the standardization procedure as well as employing and training of research assistants in the project LiSe-DaZ (linguistic learning assessment of German as a second language) in order to develop diagnostic methods for the assessment of the stage of language development of children with German as a foreign language; Organization, execution and evaluation of individual learning assessments in the efficacy study MIB (migration – integration – promoting abilites) with various tools: LiSe-Daz, SETK, AWSTR as well as training of new research assistants.
Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS Mannheim)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. phil. Arnulf Deppermann, Prof. Dr. Carola Trips
University of Mannheim, Germany
Studies of literature and linguistics of both, German and English. Also educational theory, philosophy and teaching methodology. I especially focussed on German and English linguistics, particularly on second language acquisition, language philosophy, language contact, corpus linguistics and syntax.
Final thesis: “Problemanalyse des POS-Taggings für spontan-sprachliche Daten anhand des Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus Gesprochenes Deutsch” (Analysis of the problems of automatic part-of-speech tagging of German spoken data of the research and teaching corpus of spoken German) (German grade: 1.0) (excellent)