| since May 2013: | Postdoctoral researcher and course lecturer for Applied Linguistics at the University of Hildesheim (Institute of Translatology and Specialised Communication) |
| 2010 – 2013: | Graduate scholarship from Universität Bayern (Elitenetzwerk Bayern) |
| 2009 – 2013: | Contract lecturer for Linguistics and language practice at the University of Munich (Institute of English Philology/Institute of Romance Philology) |
| 2009 – 2013: | PhD in Linguistics in the international PhD Programme for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics LIPP (today: Graduate School Language & Literature Munich, Class of Language) at the University of Munich („More than meats the eye“: The reception of phraseological substitutions in newspaper headlines) |
| 2002 – 2008: | Teacher training for English and French at the University of Munich |