- Since 2020
Senior researcher in the DFG Project A02 Speaker's choices in creole contexts: Bislama and Morisien within the framework of the CRC 1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation / Research Area 3 'Syntax & Lexicon', ZAS, Berlin - since 2006
Research associate, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin - since 2004
Member IZ ZEUS, Free University Berlin - 1999-2005
Assistant professor, Free University Berlin - 1998-99
Postdoc, University of Potsdam - 1997-99
Member Graduiertenkolleg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Universität Potsdam - 1997-98
Postdoc, University of Potsdam - 1996-97
Postdoc, University of Amsterdam - 1996
PhD (General Linguistics), Universiteit van Amsterdam - 1991-92
Visiting scholar, Université de Quebec à Montréal, Canada - 1990-95
Research assistant, University of Amsterdam - 1990
MA (General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Creole Studies), Universiteit van Amsterdam - 1989
Visiting researcher, UWI, Jamaica