Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
Since 02/2018
Associate Professor (English Linguistics; German title "Juniorprofessor")
University of Hamburg, Germany
Department of English
09/2016 - 01/2018
Research Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Department of English Language and Literature
08/2013 – 08/2016
Research Associate
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
English Department
08/2011 – 07/2013
Research Assistant
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (until 8/2012 in DFG-Project “Standardisation Processes in Nigerian English”)
08/2010 – 07/2011
Research Assistant
Universität Augsburg, Germany
English Department
DFG-Project "Standardisation Processes in Nigerian English" (PI Ulrike Gut)
Education
08/2010 - 04/2014
Dr. phil. (= PhD) in English Linguistics
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (Advisor Ulrike Gut)
Title: Speech Rhythm in Educated Indian English and British English
02-03/2012, 02-03/2013
Fieldwork for PhD project in Hyderabad, India
10/2003 - 04/2010
Magister Artium (combined MA)
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Major in English Linguistics, Minors in Computer Science and Law
Terms abroad at Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow, Poland in 2008/9 (with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service) and at the Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India (2006/7)
Research Interests
World Englishes/postcolonial varieties of Englishes, corpus linguistics, gender and language, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition (esp. speech learning, tense and aspect), corpus-based discourse analysis, social media, acoustic phonetics and laboratory phonology
Reviewing and other Service to the Community
Funding Bodies: National Science Foundation (USA), Carnegie Trust for Scotland, Research Foundation Flanders, European Science Foundation, Humboldt Foundation
Journals: Corpora, Applied Linguistics, Language and Speech, Journal of Pragmatics, English Language & Linguistics, Frontiers in Psychology, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, World Englishes, English World-Wide, English Today, International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA), Journal of Second Language Pronunciation (JSLP), Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Language Resources and Evaluation, Corpus Pragmatics, ICAME Journal, Journal of Language Contact, Sage Open, Wellcome Open Research, Cogent Humanities, Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, Ikala – Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, Composition Studies
Book proposals: Bloomsbury, Springer, Wiley
Contributions in edited volumes: de Gruyter, Routledge
Member of the scientific committee for conferences with proceedings: Interspeech (annual), Speech Prosody (bi-annual), ICASSP (International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing)
Member of the scientific committee for conferences without proceedings: International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
Member of the editorial board: Pakistan Journal on Languages and Translation Studies, Nigerian Journal of Phonetics and Phonology
External Examiner for PhD Theses
Adeyemi, Remilekun Iyabo. 2017. Corpus-based Analysis of Cohesion in Written English Essays of Nigerian Tertiary Learners. North-West University, South Africa.
Several theses from 2017 onwards at Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
External Examiner for PhD Theses
Assessor for promotions, University of Edinburgh
Languages
In descending order of proficiency:
German, English, Polish, French, Italian, Arabic (written MSA/Fusha), Latin, Hindi (basic written)
Scripting & Programming
Used continuously: R, Praat, LaTeX
Used occasionally: Python, PHP, Javascript, database queries (SQL)