Feb 2015: Invitation to the 7th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium (GISFOH) sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (IASH).
Apr 2011 to present: Enrolled in the Master of Higher Education programme (part-time MA in university didactics), University of Hamburg
Apr 2010 to Jul 2014: PhD student in German Linguistics, University of Hamburg. Dissertation on German climate change discourse and (C)DA methodology from a Multimodal Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies perspective. Publication.
Feb 2010 to Sep 2014:Research and teaching assistant (German Linguistics/Media Linguistics), German Department I, University of Hamburg (Prof. J. Androutsopoulos)
Dec 2011 to present: Associate member, Graduate School Humanities, University of Hamburg
Feb to Mar 2011: Research stay at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University; funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Graduate School Media and Communication, University of Hamburg
Sept 2008 to Aug 2009: Visiting Research Fellow at
the German Department and at the Centre for Language, Discourse
and Communication, King's College London; funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the exchange programme »Global Networks« (University of Heidelberg)
2004 to 2008: Tutor and student assistant at
the German and Philosophy departments, University of Heidelberg; Research assistant in German Linguistics (Prof. E. Felder)
2003 to 2008: M.A. German and Philosophy, University of Heidelberg;
Magister thesis topic: »A Synchronic and Diachronic
Analysis of the Print Media Discourse about 9/11 – Grammar, Semantics
and Pragmatics« (Eine synchrone und diachrone Untersuchung des
Printmediendiskurses zum 11. September 2001 unter grammatischen,
semantischen und pragmatischen Aspekten)