CV

Academic positions

08/2023 –
ZHAW Department of Applied Linguistics, Institute of Language Competence: Research Associate

08/2023 – 12/2025
Department of Language and Literature Studies, University of Basel: Lecturer

03/2023 – 07/2023
Institute of Linguistics, University of Vienna: Lecturer

02/2016 – 03/2023
Institute of Linguistics, University of Vienna: Postdoc University Assistant

09/2012 – 06/2015
Research Centre on Multilingualism, Institute of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg and the University of Teacher Education Fribourg, Switzerland: Postdoc researcher & scientific collaborator

07/2010 – 09/2011
Institute of Multilingualism, University of Fribourg and University of Teacher Education Fribourg: Researcher

11/2007 – 04/2010
School of Applied Linguistics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland: Dart time scientific collaborator in the design of studies on English as Medium of Instruction and English in multinational companies in Switzerland, with Prof. Patrick Studer

01/2007 – 10/2010
Department of Linguistics, University of Bern, Switzerland: Doctoral student in the EU FP6 Project “LINEE: Languages In a Network of European Excellence” with Prof. Iwar Werlen

02/2006 – 09/2007
Centre for the Study in Science and Technology (CEST); today Swiss Council Science and Innovation Council, Berne, Switzerland: Internship in the area of Higher Education Studies (11 months); principal researcher in a qualitative study on the choice of IT as field of study (9 months)

Projects

FirstGen: Empower2Study. BMFH-Funding, PI.

First-generation students at Universities of Applied Sciences. PgB collaborative project with BFH (Berner Fachhochschule), led by HSLU (Hochschule Luzern); project leader for ZHAW.

Evaluation of language teaching measures in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. PI Liana Konstantinidou, ZHAW Department of Applied Linguistics.

The future of written assignments (Zukunft von Leistungsnachweisen), Transformative Education Fund (TEF) ZHAW. Project member.

Affective responses to AI by language workers: a sociolinguistic pilotstudy. PI with Kyoko Motobayashi, University of Tokyo. Funded by Leading House Asia, ETH Switzerland (project number RPG 072023_14).

Pilot-study: Evaluation of language teaching measures in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. PI Liana Konstantinidou, ZHAW Department of Applied Linguistics

Spracherleben - Mehrsprachigkeit in Kugy-Klassen am Slowenischen Gymnasium/Slovenska gimnazija (SLOG) in Klagenfurt/Celovec aus Sicht von Schüler_innen, project lead by Prof. Brigitta Busch [01­-06/2020; completed]

WALMU („Wahrnehmungen von Lehrpersonen für den muttersprachlichen Unterricht“), together with Prof. Sara Hägi-Mead, Bergische Universität Wuppertal [on-going since 10/2017]

Language, ethnicity and exoticisation: The Thai Massage Studio as an Ethnographic Sociolinguistic Case Study [04/2017-12/2019; completed]

Access to the labour market, unemployment and language skills, project lead by Prof. Alexandre Duchêne [01/2013-06/2015; completed]

When language becomes the subject of work: Multilingualism in Biel/Bienne's call centres, project lead by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Duchêne, University of Fribourg [07/2010-09/2011; completed]

Integration through language - the language of integration: A critical discourse analysis of the role of language in the integration policies of Switzerland and Basel 1998-2008 [02/2007-02/2013; completed]

LINEE: Languages In a Network of European Excellence, project lead by Prof. em. Iwar Werlen, University of Bern, collaboration in various Work Packages [02/2007-09/2010; completed]

Associations, networks & research groups