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Scientific career
Since 2021
Responsible for scientific management and research coordination and deputy of the secretary-general at the Academy of Sciences and Literature| Mainz
Since 2020
Member of the "International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)"
Since 2018
Board member of the "Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD)" [International Society for German Dialectology] (IGDD) (treasurer)
Since 2017
Editorial board member of the "Journal of Linguistic Geography"
Since 2016
Managing editor of the journal "Germanistische Linguistik (GL) [Germanic Linguistics] (starting with issue 232)
Since 2013
Academy Research Chair in Germanic Linguistics at Philipps-Universität Marburg
Member of the management of the Acadamy project "Regionalsprache.de (REDE)" [Regional Language]
2011
Habilitation (venia legendi or authorization to teach Germanic linguistics), Philipps-Universität Marburg
Since 2008
Responsible manager of the Empiricism working group for the Akademy project "Regionalsprache.de (REDE)" [Regional Language]
2006-2013
Managing director of the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas
2003-2008
Speaker of the Forum in Language Variation (Section 11 of the "Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD)")
Since 2002
Member of the "Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG)"
2000-2013
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Research associate at the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas
2001
Doctorate in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
1996-2000
Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
Research associate in the Institute for German Philology
1996
Scholarship of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
1991-1996
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Studies in the fields of German philology (major), comparative linguistics, and film studies
Degree: Master of Arts