Higher Education
2001 MA, University of Hamburg (English Linguistics, Italian Linguistics).
2004 PhD, University of Hamburg (Romance Linguistics "The Acquisition of Determiners in Bilingual German-French and German-Italian children"; Supervisors: Natascha Müller, Tom Roeper).
2011 Evualuated Junior Professor, University of Hamburg.
2014 Docentur, Lund University, Sweden.
Employment
2001-2005 PhD Researcher (wiss. Mitarbeiterin), Research Centre on Multilingualism (Sonderforschungsbereich 538), Hamburg.
2006-2007 Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Linguistics/Language Research Centre, University of Calgary.
2007-2008 Temporary Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, McGill University.
2008-2014 Junior Professor, Unversity of Hamburg.
2010-2014 Forskarassistant, Linguistics, Lund University, Sweden.
since 2014, Professor for Romance Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Konstanz.
since 2015, Associate Professor (Professor II), Linguistics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway at Tromsø.