About me

I am the Department Manager of, and a lecturer in linguistics at, the English Department of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Previously, I have held positions as research assistant and junior lecturer at the University of Freiburg.

My duties include liaising between the department's teaching staff and the university's central administration and, more generally, representing the department on various levels (together with the Head of Department).

Areas of academic expertise

I am available as an examiner for final orals (Fachkompetenzmodul) and supervisor of final theses, for the latter especially - but not exclusively - in my main areas of interest:

sociolinguistics
phonetics and phonology
language perception

Additional topics can be arranged within certain limits. See here for details, and/or get in touch with me.

My teaching covers general introductions to linguistics, phonetics and phonology, regional and social variation, basic research methodology, and the usage of software such as Praat and R for semi-automatic data collection and analysis.