Curriculum Vitae
Education
04/2012–10/2016
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent), Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg
Dissertation: Neural Plasticity in Auditory and Visual Cortices as a Result of Congenital Deafness: Visual, Tactile, and Crossmodal Processing.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder (Magna Cum Laude)
04/2012–01/2014
Psychology Curriculum for graduate students, University of Hamburg
10/2004–09/2011
Magister Artium (M.A.), University of Hamburg, Sign Language (major), Economics (minor)
Appointments
since 04/2020
Assistant professor of Sign Languages, Institute for Rehabilitation Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin
W1 professor position, Tenure Track/W2, positive intermediate tenure evaluation in March 2023
10/2018–09/2019
Visiting professor, Institute for German Sign Language, University of Hamburg
Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
Research project: The critical period and neurolinguistic processing
Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Rachel Mayberry, Prof. Dr. Eric Halgren
08/2018–10/2016
Scientific Staff, Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg
Research project: Critical Brain Changes. Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder
04/2008–08/2009
Student assistant, Institute for German Sign Language, University of Hamburg
08/2008–10/2008
Research internship (psycholinguistics), Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico
08/2007–12/2007
Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico
Research project: Cross-language activation in ASL-English bilinguals. Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Jill P. Morford