President and co-founder of the MCL - Myanmar Cultures and Languages Support Project (myanmarsupport.org) (since 2021; earlier known as MCL - Mon Culture and Literature Survival Project MCL; established 2002.)
Leader of the Htanaw alphabetization and documentation project (htanawsar.org) (since 2021)
Adjunct senior lecturer (Privatdozent, PD) at the Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Habilitation (PD) in General Linguistics, 2016, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Title of cumulative habilitation: Areal typology of Southeast Asian languages.
PhD in General Linguistics in 2005, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Title of dissertation: The verb system of Mon. (published at ASAS, Zurich)
Lic.phil. (MA) in General Linguistics (subsidiary subjects: English Linguistics, Rhaeto-Romansh Literature and Linguistics) at the University of Zurich , completed in 2001; Title of thesis: The aspect system of Thai (published at ASAS, Zurich)
Baan Somdej Chao Phraya Teachers' College and Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok (BA level, major subject: Thai Language; 1987-1990)
High school in Zurich, Switzerland (1980-1986); AFS exchange student in Bangkok, Thailand (Bodin Decha High School, 1984/85)
Senior researcher at Chiang Mai University (June 2022 to May 2025)
Senior researcher at the Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland (2012-2021)
Researcher/lecturer at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland (2006-2012)
Lecturer at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland (2001-2006)
Visiting researcher and lecturer at the Yangon University of Foreign Languages (YUFL), Myanmar (2018-2021)
Visiting researcher and lecturer at Mandalay University, Myanmar (2016-2021)
Visiting lecturer at Mawlamyine University, Myanmar (2017)
Visiting scholar at the CRLAO/EHESS, Paris (2015)
Visiting scholar and PhD co-advisor at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand (2013-2015)
Visiting scholar and PhD co-advisor at Mahidol University, Thailand (2010-2011)
Coordinator of the study programs Comparative Linguistics BA and Evolutionary Linguistics MA at the Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland (curriculum development and implementation, students advisory service; 2016-2020)
Coordinator of the PhD Program "Linguistics" at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2008-2009)
Member of the scientific committee of GLOCAL (https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/) at the SOAS, London (since 2020)
Member of the academic advisory board Inya Institute (http://www.inyainstitute.org/) (since 2012)
Member of the executive board of the Swiss Society for Endangered Languages (http://www.endangeredlanguages.ch/index.html) (2011-2021)
Secretary of the executive committee of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS; 2011-2018)
Member of the international committee of the International Conference of Austroasiatic Languages (ICAAL; since 2009)
Co-editor of Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages: Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia (www.brill.com/msea) (since 2015)
Member of the editorial board of the SEAsian Mainland Languages E-Series (SEAMLES, Pacific Linguistics) (since 2013)
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS; http://www.jseals.org/) (since 2012)
Lecturer in Mon culture and language at the INALCO, Paris (2008-2011)
Translation and interpreter services in Thai/English/German (1985-1995)