| 01/2013 - 04/2013 | Visiting fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom |
| 06/2012 - present | Associate researcher, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany |
| 03/2012 - 02/2015 | Postdoctoral researcher (DFG grant "Eigene Stelle"), Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
| 04/2006 - 02/2012 | Lecturer in English Linguistics, Department of English, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 08/2006 - 02/2009 |
PhD student in English Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Thesis title: The Corporate Blog as an Emerging Genre of Computer-Mediated Communication: Features, Constraints, Discourse Situation (see my publications) Adviser: Dieter Stein (Düsseldorf) Committee: Janet Giltrow (UBC Vancouver), Roger Lüdeke (Düsseldorf) Predicate: summa cum laude |
| 06/2003 - 08/2003 | Visiting student at the University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 1999 - 2006 |
Undergraduate studies in English, Communication Science, and Information Science at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Magister Artium (M.A. equivalent) in English and Information Science. Grade: 1,1 (A). |
| to 1998 | Primary and secondary education at Erlem Elementary School (Norwich, UK), A&M Junior High School (College Station, TX, USA), and Abtei Gymnasium (Duisburg, Germany) |