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About me

Brief biography

Since 2008: Research associate at the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Head of the Documentation and Knowledge Transfer division 

Since 2018: Head of the Phonetics and Phonology section of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD) [International Society for German Dialectology] with Prof. Dr. Jörg Peters

September 2016: Doctorate in German linguistics at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Doctoral dissertation: “Landschaftliches Hochdeutsch. Rekonstruktion der oralen Prestigevarietät im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert,” summa cum laude)  

2002-2007: Studies in German language and literature (major), law and European ethnology (minors). Degree: Master of Arts

2002: High school graduation and university qualification

 

Awards

Winner of the teaching award "Lehre@Philipp 2022" (Philipps-Universität Marburg) for the project "Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Wissenschaftskommunikation digital". Awarded on 17.11.2022.

Winner of the IGDD-Nachwuchspreis 2018 for the best dissertation. Awarded on 14.09.2018.

Activities

since 10/2022: Member of the Department Council of Department 09 - German Studies and Arts, Philipps-Universität Marburg

2021: Organization of the 12th Collection Congress / 9th Annual Meeting of the Association for University Collections "Digital Curating" as an Online Meeting in Marburg, 15.–17.09.2021, jointly with Christian Bracht, Nikolas Magin and Christoph Otterbeck, in cooperation with the "Gesellschaft für Universitätssammlungen" (GfU) [Association for University Collections]

2019: Organization of the 132nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Low German Language Research with the Focus “Low German Dialectology” in Marburg, 10–13 June 2019, jointly with Bettina Kehrein, in cooperation with the "Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung" (VndS) [Association for Low German Language Research]

2018: Organization of the 6th Congress of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD)[International Society for German Dialectology] “Regiolekt – Der neue Dialekt?” in Marburg, 13–15 September 2018, jointly with Jürgen Erich Schmidt and Joachim Herrgen

Since 2017: Mentor in the ProMotivation program

2013: Organization of the 5th Colloquium of the Forum on Language Variation/2nd Young Academics Colloquium of the Association for Low German Language Research in Marburg, 9–11 October 2013, jointly with Jens Philipp Lanwer (Münster), Kathrin Weber (Münster), Robert Langhanke (Flensburg/Kiel), Hanna Fischer (Marburg) und Christoph Purschke (Marburg)

Since 2010: Adviser for graduation theses (bachelor and master levels)

2010: Certificate “Expertise in Professional Postsecondary Instruction” of the Postsecondary Didactics Network of Central Hesse

Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
Gesellschaft für germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG)
Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD)
Marburg Center for Digital Culture and Infrastructure (MCDCI)
Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung (VndS)