08/2014–08/2015 – Interim Lectureship, Psycholinguistics, Bielefeld University
04/2012–07/2014 – Interim Professorship and Director of Studies, Clinical Linguistics, Bielefeld University
11/2009-03/2012 – Staff Scientist, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, (Ramón y Cajal programme), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
09/2007–11/2009 – Marie-Curie Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psycholinguistics (Manuel Carreiras), University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
09/2005–07/2007 – NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (Michele Miozzo, Brenda Rapp), Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
08/2004–08/2005 – Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Language Production Group (Gary Dell), Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (Myrna F. Schwartz), Philadelphia, USA
2004 PhD – Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Advisor: Willem J. M. Levelt
08/2000–06/2004 – PhD Scholar, Language Production Group (Willem J. M. Levelt), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
05/1999–07/2000 – Lecturer, Humboldt-University at Berlin and Research Fellow in the subproject in the Daimler-Benz funded research project ‘Group Interaction in High Risk Environments’ (Rainer Dietrich)
1999 – M.A. in General Linguistics (major), Neurology and Psychology (minors), Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany