since April 2017: Research associate at the Chair of English Linguistics, TU Dresden
Apr. 2024-Sept. 2024: Interim professor (W3) for English Linguistics, University of Greifswald
Apr. 2021-Mar. 2022: Guest lecturer in English Linguistics, TU Dortmund University (4 SWS)
Apr. 2020-Sept. 2020: Interim professor (W2) for Varieties of English, University of Leipzig
Apr. 2018-Sept. 2018: Guest lecturer at the Chair of English Philology - Linguistics, University of Regensburg (3 SWS)
Oct. 2016-Mar. 2017: Research associate in English Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Oct. 2015-Sept. 2016: Research associate at the Chair of English Philology - Linguistics, University of Regensburg
Jun. 2014-Sept. 2015: Research assistant at the Chair of English Linguistics, TU Dresden
Oct. 2014-Mar. 2015: Guest lecturer at the Chair of English Linguistics, TU Dresden (2 SWS)
Oct. 2013-Dec. 2013: Research assistant at the Chair of English Linguistics, TU Dresden
Thesis: Mountaineering English: Lexicography and Lexicology of a Specialised Register
Examiners: Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange, Prof. Dr. Sarah Buschfeld, Prof. Dr. Claudia Claridge
Thesis: Topicalization in Asian Englishes: Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
External examiners: Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider, PD Dr. Alexander Kautzsch
Evaluation: summa cum laude
Thesis: Copula Deletion in English Varieties: Exploring Patterns of Explanation for Copula Absence in World Englishes
Final grade: 1,0 (very good; ECTS grade: A)
Thesis: Regionale Variation in den Städten Dessau und Magdeburg [Regional variation in the cities of Dessau and Magdeburg]
Final grade: 1,8 (good)
2024: "Seismic Shifts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mountaineering" (co-organised with Franziska Röber), international conference at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2017: "NoCaSynE - International Symposium: New Perspectives on Non-Canonical Syntax in English" (co-organised with Claudia Lange and Teresa Pham); Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2016: "8. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende" (co-organised with Sandra Aehnelt, Johanna Kehr, Josephine Klingebeil-Schieke, and Rebecca Schreiber); Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2026: "Corpus-Linguistic Approaches to Reddit" (co-organised with Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli), pre-conference workshop at ICAME47; University of Koblenz, Germany
2024: "Language and Mobility" (co-organised with Theresa Neumaier and Manuela Vida-Mannl), panel at Anglistiktag 2024; University of Augsburg, Germany
2023: "Specialised Registers from a Sociohistorical Perspective", conference workshop at ICEHL-22; University of Sheffield, UK
2022: "World Englishes & Social Media" (co-organised with Jakob Leimgruber and Sofia Rüdiger), conference workshop at 9th BICLCE; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021: "Lesser-Known and Expanding Circle Varieties of English on Social Media" (co-organised with Jakob Leimgruber and Sofia Rüdiger), pre-conference workshop at ISLE 6 (International Society for the Linguistics of English); University of Eastern Finland, Finland
2019: "Orality, Literacy – and the Digital? New Perspectives on Language of Immediacy and Language of Distance" (co-organised with Sarah Buschfeld), panel at Anglistiktag 2019; University of Leipzig, Germany
2018: "Discourse Markers in the Outer and Expanding Circles: A Corpus-Linguistic Perspective" (co-organised with Sofia Rüdiger), pre-conference workshop at ICAME 39; University of Tampere, Finland
2024: "Drittmittel- und Förderanträge in der Anglistik" (co-organised with Sandra Dinter), online workshop on third-party funding in English studies
2019: "Schritte nach der Promotion" (co-organised with Sandra Dinter, Philip Jacobi, Ilka Mindt, Felix Sprang, and Wieland Schwanebeck), workshop at Anglistiktag 2019; University of Leipzig, Germany
copRe ('communicative practices on Reddit'), scientific network organised by Daria Dayter & Thomas C. Messerli (https://copre.org/)
Deutscher Anglistikverband e.V.
International Association for World Englishes (IAWE)
International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
NoCaSynE: 'Syntax Beyond the Canon', DFG-funded scientific network organised by Teresa Pham and Sven Leuckert (https://sites.google.com/view/nocasyne/home)
Deutscher Anglistikverband (2018-2023)
Faculty Board of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, TU Dresden (2021-2024)
New Directions in World Englishes Research (book series with Edinburgh University Press, series editor: Sarah Buschfeld) [link]
ICAME Journal (journal editors: Merja Kytö & Patricia Ronan) [link]
AI-Linguistica: Linguistic Studies on AI-Generated Texts and Discourses; Asian Englishes; Cognitive Linguistics; English Today; English World-Wide; ICAME Journal; Journal of English Linguistics; Journal of Medical Internet Research; Journal of Pragmatics; Language and Cognition; Language Resources and Evaluation; Language Sciences; Linguistics Vanguard; Lingua; Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Learning; Oxford Intersections; Pragmatics; Pragmatics & Society; Research in Corpus Linguistics; Studia Neophilologica; Theory and Society; World Englishes
Cambridge University Press; John Benjamins; Mouton de Gruyter; Peter Lang; Wiley-Blackwell
Digital Humanities (DH2023, DH2024, DH2025)
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV50, NWAV51, NWAV53, NWAV54)
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC16, ICLC17)
Edinburgh University Press; Taylor & Francis
German Academic Exchange Service ('Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst', DAAD)
German Research Foundation ('Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft', DFG)
'Multimediafonds' (TU Dresden)