Curriculum Vitae

General overview:

Academic positions

March 2008-
Chancellor's Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)

February 2006-February 2008

Visiting scholar at the University of Sydney, Australia (DFG-research grant), post-doc research (Habilitation) (Department of Linguistics)

August 2004-2008
Researcher and lecturer in English linguistics, Department of English linguistics, University of Augsburg, Germany - on research leave from 2006 to 2008

July 2002-June 2003
Research and teaching assistant (wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Department of English linguistics, University of Augsburg

August 2001-November 2001
Junior research assistant (studentische Hilfskraft), Department of French linguistics, University of Augsburg

October 2000-June 2002
Junior research and teaching assistant (studentische Hilfskraft), Department of English linguistics, University of Augsburg

Education

2008
Habilitation, University of Augsburg, Germany

February 2005
Ph.D. in English linguistics (summa cum laude), University of Augsburg (supervisors: Prof. W. Bublitz, Augsburg, Prof. S. Hunston, Birmingham)

August 2002-October 2004
Ph.D. research and work on a doctoral thesis (on evaluation in the British press), supervised by Prof. Wolfram Bublitz, Department of English linguistics, University of Augsburg and Prof. Susan Hunston, English Department, University of Birmingham

July 2002
M.A. in English linguistics, English literature and French linguistics (1,07)

October 1997-July 2002
M.A. course in English linguistics, English literature and French linguistics at the University of Augsburg

June 1997
Abitur/A-levels/graduation, Bodenseegymnasium Lindau (1,0)

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Scholarships/grants/prizes:

March 2008-:

Chancellors post-doctoral research fellowship, University of Technology, Sydney

February 2006-February 2008:

DFG research grant (post-doc research at the University of Sydney) (German Research Foundation)

August 2005-January 2006:

Research project Emotions across Corpora, funded by a grant from the University of Augsburg

January 2004-March 2004:

DAAD research grant (PhD research at the University of Birmingham) (German Academic Exchange Service)

July 2003-July 2004:

Scholarship for Ph.D. students from the University of Augsburg (Grafög)

September 1999-June 2000:

DAAD grant (for studying at the University of Southampton) (German Academic Exchange Service)

1995-1996

Participation in the Mehrsprachenwettbewerb der Sekundarstufe II (Bundeswettbewerb Fremdsprachen), a nation-wide language exam, gaining a third place with the languages English and French

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Experience outside Germany:

March 2006-

Research Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)

February 2006-February 2008

Visiting scholar at the University of Sydney (Australia)

September 2003-April 2004

Visiting research fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK)

September 1999-June 2000

Exchange student at the University of Southampton (UK)

January-March 1994           

2 1/2 month residence with a guest family in Dun Laoghaire (Ireland), on a school exchange scheme of the Bayerischer Jugendring