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 Languages (major), Economics (minor)
09/2001 – 01/2004 Bookselling apprenticeship, Buchhandlung Fiehland, Kaltenkirchen
appointments
since 04/2020 Assistant professor of Sign Languages
Institute for Rehabilitation Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
10/2018–09/2019 Visiting professor
Institute for German Sign Language, University of Hamburg
10/2016 – 08/2018 Postdoctoral Associate & Visiting Researcher
Mayberry Laboratory for Multimodal Language Development
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
01/2012 – 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
Research project: Cross-language activation in ASL-English bilinguals
Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Jill P. Morford
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