Since 2018 
Senior researcher at the Department of English II at Cologne University

2018
PHD on the topic “Supporting learners with lexical disorders in the context of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in the elementary school English as a foreign language classroom” supervised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Rohde (Department of English II, University of Cologne)

2012-2018
PhD researcher at the Department of English II at Cologne University

2012
State exam (1. Staatsexamen) of the education program for teachers of students with special needs at Cologne University
Focus: Speech and language pathology, learning disabilities
Subjects: English, German
Master Thesis (Staatsexamensarbeit): “Supporting vocabulary learning amongst children with Developmental Language Disorder”, supervised by Dr. Andreas Mayer, Department of Speech Language Pathology (Lehrstuhl Sprachbehindertenpädagogik in schulischen und außerschulischen Bereichen), University of Cologne

2010 – 2012
Research assistant at the Department of English II at Cologne University Assistance in research projects in the field of English Linguistics as well as Second Language Learning and Teaching (Prof. Dr. Andreas Rohde)

2010 – 2011
Research assistant at the Department for Speech and Language Pathology (Lehrstuhl Sprachbehindertenpädagogik), University of Cologne
Assistance in the research project “Standardization of a test instrument for the identification of children that are at risk of dyslexia” (Dr. Andreas Mayer)

2007 – 2009
Employee at an after-school care at a special needs school for speech and language pathology 

2006-2007
Two semesters of BA English and American Studies and History at Münster University

2003 – 2004
Rotary International Youth Exchange in the United States