Career history
Education & Positions
PhD (magna cum laude) · MA 1.1 · 17+ years in higher education across Australia, Germany, and Norway
Leadership Roles
- Director of Research, School of Languages and Cultures (University of Queensland, since 1/2026)
- Director of the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) (since 2019)
- Associate Editor of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) (since 1/2024)
- Book series editor, Language, Data Science and Digital Humanities (Bloomsbury Academic, since 10/2024)
- Editorial Board member of the Journal of English and Applied Linguistics (since 9/2024)
- Board member of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) (re-elected)
- Steering committee Language Data Commons of Australia — HASS Research Data Commons (LDaCA — HASS RDC, since 2024)
- Advisory committee Language Data Commons of Australia — HASS Research Data Commons (LDaCA — HASS RDC, 2023)
- Steering committee Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) (2021–2023, project merged into LDaCA in 2024)
- Affiliate member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Center for Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL)
- Former Queensland state chair of the Australian Computation and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO, 2021)
- In 2019 I was HASS Digital Champion on behalf of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).
Education
Since 11/2014 PhD in English linguistics (Universität Hamburg): Final grade: magna cum laude
10/2008–10/2011 PhD dissertation: The discourse marker LIKE: a corpus-based analysis of selected varieties of English
1st supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund
2nd supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markku Filppula
28/02/2008 Magister Artium (Universität Kassel): Final grade: 1.1 [1st class degree]
04/2007–10/2007 M.A. dissertation: Sprache und Raum im Lichte der Raumkonzeption Kants – Untersuchung der Beziehbarkeit von Kants Überlegungen zum Raum auf Thematisierungen des Raums in der neueren Linguistik (Language and space according to Kant – thoughts on the relationship between the concept of space in Kant’s philosophy and in modern linguistics)
1st supervisor: Prof. Dr. Winfried Nöth
2nd supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Kristian Köchy
09/2000–02/2008 Universität Kassel: M.A. studies
1st major: English Philology
2nd major: Philosophy
Additional minor: Psychology
08/2006–02/2007 National University of Ireland Galway (Erasmus/Sokrates exchange)
1997–2000 A-levels (Final grade: 2.0): Albert-Schweitzer-Schule (upper-level grammar school, Hofgeismar)
Positions
Since 1/2026 Director of Research, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland — strategic coordination of research activities, CI portfolios, grant strategy, and research infrastructure for the School.
Since 1/2025 full-time permanent Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Australia (UQ, 100%) (since 7/2021 full-time permanent Lecturer, since 11/2023 confirmed/tenured)
Previous Positions
| Time | Type of Position (Field) | Employer (Percentage) |
|---|---|---|
| 6/2021–11/2023 | Associate Professor II and Principal Data Science Advisor to the AcqVA Aurora Lab in the AcqVA-Aurora Center | UiT (10%) |
| 02/2021–05/2021 | Associate Professor and Lab Director in the AcqVA-Aurora Center | UiT (80%) |
| 02/2021–06/2021 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Language Technology, School of Languages and Cultures) | UQ (20%) |
| 10/2018–01/2021 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Language Technology, School of Languages and Cultures) | UQ (100%) |
| 03–10/2018 | Principal Investigator (VowelChartProject, Language Technology Group, Computer Science) | UHH (50%) |
| 04–09/2016 (on leave 09/2016–02/2018) | Research Assistant (English linguistics) | UKS (50%) |
| 09/2016–02/2018 | Interim professor (English linguistics) | UHH (100%) |
| 10/2015–03/2016 | Lecturer (Cognitive Science/English linguistics) | UKS (50%) |
| 10/2014–08/2016 | Post-Doctoral Researcher (English linguistics) | UHH (50%) |
| 4/2013–3/2015 | Research Assistant (Laboratory for Empirical Research on Language in Action) | LUL (50%) |
| 1/2013–12/2013 | Research Assistant (English linguistics) | UHH (50%) |
| 10/2011–12/2012 | Research Assistant (State Excellence Cluster: Linguistic Diversity Management in Urban Areas) | UHH (50%) |
| 10/2012–4/2013 | Lecturer (Structure of contemporary English) | FUB (50%) |
| 10/2011–09/2012 | Research Assistant (English linguistics) | EMA (50%) |
| 10/2008–10/2011 | Research Assistant/PhD candidate (English linguistics) | UHH (50%) |
| 2/2008–10/2008 | Research Assistant (English linguistics and semiotics) | UKS (50%) |
| 11/2007–1/2008 | Student Assistant (English linguistics and semiotics) | UKS (50%) |
| 11/2005–2/2006 | Student Assistant (Education/Philosophy) | UKS |
| 12/2003–8/2008 | Student Assistant (Education/Philosophy/Social Services) | UKS |
FUB = Freie Universität Berlin
EMA = Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
LUL = Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
UHH = Universität Hamburg
UKS = Universität Kassel
UQ = The University of Queensland, Australia
Research Visits
1–2/2024 Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI), Universität Zürich — invited by Prof. Dr. Gerold Schneider & Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo