Work Experience
- 05/2025 – current
Doctoral Researcher, SPEAK-project: Diagnosis of language abilities in multilingual children: Validation of a test battery, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany.
PI: Prof. Dr. Natalia Gagarina - 12/2021 – 03/2025
Research Assistant, Psycholinguistics Laboratory, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany - 12/2020 – 03/2021
Internship, Eye-tracking Laboratory, Psycholinguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany - 11/2019 – 04/2025
Teaching Support, Modern Languages Center (ZEMS) of Technische Universität Berlin, Germany - 11/2018 – 12/2021
English Language Editor, MDPI (publisher of scholarly open access journals) - 11/2018 – 11/2019
Student Assistant, Modern Language Center (ZEMS) of Technische Universität Berlin, Germany - 09/2016 – 07/2018
Instructor: German as a Foreign Language, Goethe-Institute at Qingdao University, Qingdao, China - 05/2017 – 06/2018
Senior English Creative Editor, REDSTAR Magazine, Qingdao, China - 04/2015 – 10/2015
Instructor: German as a Foreign Language, Goethe-Institute, Tunis, Tunisia - 07/2013 – 04/2015
Instructor: German as a Foreign Language, DeutschAkademie, Berlin, Germany - 11/2015 – 08/2016
Projekt Manager, Project: Rural School Construction, NGO Aktive Direkt Hilfe Kongo e.V., Kongo DR - 09/2012 – 05/2014
Instructor: Highschool English as a Second Language, Jovita Stiftung, “die gelbe Villa”, Berlin, Germany - 09/2012 – 06/2013
German Tutor, Stiftung Mercator, Projekt: „Sprachförderung von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund“, Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Wissenschaft, Berlin, Germany
Education
- 10/2018 – 08/2024
M.A., German as a Foreign Language and Language for Specific Purposes, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Thesis: Effect of Proficiency on Embodied Language Processing of Morphosyntactic Structures: Evidence from German L2 Speakers
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle (HU Berlin), Dr. Almut Schön (TU Berlin) - 08/2016
Examiner certification Goethe-Institute, Goethe-Institut Berlin, Germany - 03/2013
EUROLTA/ International House Certificate in Teaching German to Adults, E.S.L., Berlin, Germany - 09/2008-02/2012
Magister (M.A.), Latin American/Spanish Linguistics and Cultural Studies, English and American Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany
Thesis: Retelling Tales: The Imbunche in Contemporary Narratives
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eva Kimminich, Dr. Jens Häseler