2017- present Group leader (permanent research position contract) for the Phonetics Phonology Group at ZAS
2009-2012 Member of the language documentation project in Vanuatu (Ambrym) sponsored by the VW-Foundation (PI: Prof. Manfred Krifka, ZAS Berlin), Role: Camera woman 2-month stay at Ambrym in 2010 for film documentation (see www.sciencemovies.de/de/07_wer_spricht_noch_daakaka)
2008-2019 Full-time research position in the project: Constituent-related phenomena of spoken language at ZAS Berlin, funded by the Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
Okt - Dez 2008, Dez 2009 Guest scientist at Institut de la communication parlée, Grenoble
2005 Postdoc position at the Institut de la Communication Parlée (ICP, now GIPSA-lab), Grenoble, France
2003-2007 Half-time and later full-time research position in the project: Articulatory economy and perceptual discriminability at ZAS Berlin, funded by the German Research Council
1999-2005 PhD student at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh (United Kingdom) PhD title: Articulatory correlates of the voicing contrast in alveolar obstruent production in German (supervisors: Prof. Jim Scobbie, Dr. Alan Wrench, Prof. Bernd Pompino-Marschall)
1996-2000 MA student in Drama, Cultural Communication, New German Literature, Linguistics at Humboldt University Berlin; Intermediate examinations
1991-1998 Diploma student of Speech Science and Speech Therapy at Humboldt University Berlin, Diploma (level A) Thesis title: Speaking styles in presenting of the radio news (with honours) (supervisors: Prof. Braun, Prof. Bernd Pompino-Marschall)
1989-1991 Student of Social Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena