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Career

Date Position Institute
since 2017 Senior Lecturer / Scientist AG Phonetics, German Linguistics, Philipps University Marburg
since 2016 Head of Forensic Phonetics, Curriculum/Research/Casework,
Specialisation: speaker comparison, speaker profiling, transcription, and voice lineups
Philipps University Marburg
2016-2017 Deputy-Professor Philipps University Marburg
2010-2016 Senior Lecturer / Scientist AG Phonetics, German Linguistics, Philipps University Marburg
2006-2008 Senior Research Associate Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
2000-2005 Researcher / Lecturer Language and Communication Science Department, City University, London
2000-2005 Lecturer, M.Phil. Computer Speech and Language Processing Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

Academic qualifications

Year Degree Place
1998 PhD in linguistics, Thesis: Earwitness Characteristics and Speaker Identification Accuracy Linguistics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
1993 MPhil. in Computer Speech and Language Processing Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK
1992 BSc. in Computational Linguistics (Artificial Intelligence), Cum Laude University of Groningen, NL
1988 Propaedeutics Dutch Language Dutch Department, University of Groningen, NL

Official functions

  • since 2016 Head Forensic Phonetics, Curriculum/Research/Casework, Philipps-Universität Marburg
  • 2024 Organiser – VoiceID Marburg
  • 2023 Scientific Chair - Section: forensic phonetics, ICPhS
  • 2021 Chair of the IAFPA-Conference Marburg (online)
  • since 2022 Chair Graduation Ceremony Organisation
  • since 2021 Tonight Show – Interview with forensic phoneticians
  • since 2010 Equal opportunity and Women’s representative