Employment
| 2013-present | Full professor Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany), Department of Philology / Institute for German Studies |
| 2010-2013 | Full professor University of Osnabrück (Germany), Institute for German Studies |
| 2007-2010 | Associate Professor Research group on Language Acquisition, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (The Netherlands) |
| 1998-2007 | Research Associate Research group on Language acquisition, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen |
| 1995-1997 | Research Associate DFG project Gradpartikelerwerb, Free University of Berlin |
Academic education
| 1998 | PhD in German Philology, Free University Berlin (Thesis: Fokuspartikeln und Informationsgliederung im Deutschen) |
| 1994 | State examination (Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien) in German and Romance Studies, Free University Berlin |
| 1989-1994 | German and Romance Studies, Free University Berlin |
| 1986-1988 | German and Romance Studies, University of Marburg |