Education
2014
Habilitation (post-doctoral degree) & venia legendi in English linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Thesis: An Analogy-Based Theory of English Word-Formation: Algorithms, Predictions, and Evidence
2005
Dr. phil. in English linguistics, Universität Siegen
dissertation: English Prosodic Morphology (published 2007, Springer)
1999
Erstes Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien und Gesamtschulen, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Subjects: English, Latin

Employment
2015 – Professor of English linguistics, Universität Trier
2014 – 2015 Akademische Rätin, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2012 – 2014 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2010 – 2012 Substitute professor, Universität Siegen
2000 – 2010 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Universität Siegen
2008 – 2009 On parental leave
1999 – 2000 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Grants
2015 – 2018
Project The Prosody of Derived Words in English (Principal Investigator: Sabine Arndt-Lappe), part of Research Unit FOR 2373 Spoken Morphology (spokesman: Ingo Plag), funded by the DFG
2005 – 2007 & 2008 – 2011
Project Compound Stress in English: Modelling the Prosody of NN and NNN Constructions (Principal Investigators 2008-2011: Sabine Arndt-Lappe & Ingo Plag; 2005-2007: Ingo Plag) , funded by the DFG
2007 - 2010
Member of the Network Core Mechanisms of Exponence (PI: Jochen Trommer, Universität Leipzig), funded by the DFG
1994/95
Scholarship funded by the DAAD-Anglistenprogramm for an exchange semester at Trinity College, Dublin