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Short Bio

Since June 2024Associate Professor (Apl. Prof.) of English Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics at Saarland University
Principal Investigator of the CRC 1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding Project B1 on Information Density and Scientific Literacy in English
Principal Investigator of the EU-HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Program on Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments for the project on Diachronic development of text types focusing on propagandistic narratives and Modelling context for the analysis of language variation and change combining traditional data mining techniques with Graph Neural Nets
Nov 2019-June 2024 Assistant Professor/Senior Lecturer (permanent position) at Saarland University and Member of CRC 1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, Project B1 Information Density and Scientific Literacy in English
Oct 2019Lecturer/Researcher (tenured) at Saarland University and PostDoc in CRC1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, Project B1 Information Density and Scientific Literacy in English
April 2019 – Sep 2019Interim Professor at Saarland University and advisor in CRC1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, Project B1 Information Density and Scientific Literacy in English
July 2018 – March 2019Lecturer/Researcher (tenured) at Saarland University and PostDoc in CRC1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, Project B1 Information Density and Scientific Literacy in English
Oct 2014 – June 2015PostDoc at Saarland University, CRC 1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, Project B1 Information Density and Scientific Literacy in English
Nov 2013 – Sept 2014Research assistant at Saarland University, DFG-Project German-English Contrasts in Cohesion
March 2011 – Dez 2014PhD Student at Saarland University
April 2010 – Oct 2013Research assistant at Saarland University, DFG-Project Registers in Contact
Oct 2008 – Feb 2011Master in Linguistics and Literary Computing at TU Darmstadt
Oct 2008 – Feb 2011Diploma in Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Diploma-Thesis at Fraunhofer Institut IGD, Darmstadt

Grants

2024 – 2027 EU Horizon MSCA on Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) (2.8 Million €, 521,000 € to UdS)

2023 – 2024 DataPin Project funding for „Innovative use of AI in education“ for a project on „Overcoming the computational hurdle and exploiting opportunities for humanities students in linguistic research for the Digital Humanities (DH) with Chat-GPT“ (approx. 50,000€, E13 TVöD 50%)

2022 – 2026  Information Density in Englisch Scientific Writing: A Diachronic Perspective with Elke Teich in the  Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1102) Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (approx. 595,000€ for Project B1)

2021 – 2022 Start-Up funding from UdS „Impact of register and sociolinguistic factors on textual coherence“ with Francesca Delogu (approx. 14,000€)

2017 – Grant for workshop organisation on „Effective use of meta-data of historical texts and corpora“ from Universitätsgesellschaft des Saarlandes

2016 – 2017 Start-Up funding from Saarland University on „Linguistic Profiles of Social Variables in Diachrony“ (15.000€)

2015 – 2018 Fellowship Excellence Program for Young Female Scientists

2009 – Grant for DGfS-CL Fallschool

2009 – Grant from women’s advancement program at TU Darmstadt