About me

Over the past fifteen years, I developed a strong academic background, combining humanities with the social and natural sciences. I studied Indo-European languages and culture, archaeology, and law at the universities of Jena and Passau.

Research. In my PhD thesis I triangulated insights from general, Indo-European, and Greek linguistics. I developed a new, discourse-pragmatic framework and method for prosodic analysis and reconstruction that is designed for application beyond Greek.

Teaching. Besides this core research project, I taught about twenty classes at undergraduate and graduate levels at Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, and Humboldt-University, Berlin.

Project Management. As assistant to professor Wolfgang Hock (HU Berlin), I set up and managed an online dictionary on Old Lithuanian: https://alew.hu-berlin.de

Interdisciplinary Cooperation. At Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH, Jena), I had the chance to participate in an interdisciplinary research project applying Bayesian phylogenetic methods to a large-scale, refined data set from ancient as well as modern Indo-European languages. The project and final publication shed new light on the question of Indo-European homeland and spread: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg0818

From August 15, 2024 I will contribute my expertise and organizational skills to the education of primary school children, teaching at Loris Campus, Beelitz-Heilstätten. Also, I will acquire first experiences in educational quality management at science museum NANO, Potsdam.