Since 2018
Senior Researcher at the Department of English II at Cologne University
2018
PHD on the topic “Supporting Students with Lexical Disorders in the Context of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in the English as a Foreign Language Elementary School 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 for students with special needs at Cologne University
Focus: Speech and Language Pathology, Learning Disabilities
Subjects: English, German
Master Thesis (Staatsexamensarbeit): “Supporting Vocabulary Learning in 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 and Second Language Learning and Teaching of Prof. Dr. Andreas Rohde
2010–2011
Research Assistant at the Department for Speech and Language Pathology (Lehrstuhl Sprachbehindertenpädagogik) at Cologne University
Assistance in the research project “Standardization of a Test Instrument for the Identification of Children that are at Risk of Dyslexia” of 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 the University of Münster
2003–2004
Rotary International Youth Exchange in the United States