Academic employment
- 09/2012 - 02/2014
Researcher, ZAS, Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, Arcadia (Documentation of Ecuadorian Secoya)
- 09/2009 - 08/2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropological Linguistics, James Cook University (Secoya, employed under an ARC-funded project)
- 07/2003 - 08/2009
Researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, SFB 632 Information structure (Project B1: Focus in Gur and Kwa languages, The interaction of information structure and grammar in Gur and Kwa; project D2: Typology of information structure; project B7: Predicate-centered focus types: a sample-based typological study in African languages)
- 07/1996-12/2001
Researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DFG-funded project on Gur languages)
University education
- 06/2005
Dr. phil., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (African studies)
- 01/1996
Magister Artium, University of Hamburg (African studies, German linguistics, Anthropology)
