Curriculum Vitae
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 2021 - | Director of the Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (PICAIS) together with Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm |
| 2021 - 2024 | Member of the management team of the project "Vectors of Data Disclosure – A Comparative Study of the Use of Personal Data from a Legal, Cultural Studies, and Information Systems Perspective" of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2019 - 2023 | Member of the BMBF-Project SKILL.de Strategies of Competence Acquisition: Innovative Teaching Formats in Teacher Education, digitally enhanced |
| 2018 - 2020 | Vice President for Study, Teaching and Internationalisation |
| 2015 - 2017 | (Elected) Member of the Senate and University Council |
| 2013 - 2015 | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| 02/2012 - 03/2012 | Visiting Scholar, University of Colorado (Colorado Springs), University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff), University of Arizona (Tucson), Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| 2012 - 2021 | Member of the DFG Research Training Group "Privacy, Forms, Functions, Transformations" (1681) and (since 2016) "Privacy and Digitalization" |
| 2010 - 2021 | Chairperson Board of Examiners BA, BA Major and MA European Studies |
| 10/2010 - | Professor of English Language and Culture, University of Passau |
| 2010 - 2021 | Vice President of the German Association of University Professors, Bonn |
| 2009 - 2010 | Professor of Applied English Linguistics, Karl-Franzens University, Graz (Austria) |
| 07/2008 | Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, Portland, Oregon |
| 04/2008 - 09/2008 | Interim Professor of English Linguistics, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main |
| 2008 | E.ON Culture Award (Bavaria) |
| 2007 | Habilitation with venia legendi for English Linguistics and Intercultural Communication; post-doctoral thesis on "Public Relations in Intercultural Comparison: The Language of the Annual Reports of US- and German Companies" |
| 11/2006 | Visiting Scholar, University of Sunderland, GB |
| 2004 - 2009 | Equal Opportunity Representative, University of Passau |
| 2004 | German Study Award (third place) of the Körber Foundation |
| 2003 | PhD in English Linguistics; doctoral thesis on "Women's and Men's Language Use in Job Interviews" (with a special focus on explanations for gender differentiated language use from the perspective of evolutionary psychology) |
| 1999 - 2000 | Scholarship for postgraduate studies, lecturer in English Linguistics |
| 1997 - 1999 2000 - 2009 | Research Assistant, Assistant and Associate Professor at the Chair of English Language and Culture, University of Passau |
| 1998 | First State Examination in English and Economics |
| 1997 | M.A. degree (English Linguistics, English Didactics, Economics) |
| 03-04/09-11/1996 | Internship at Dresdner Bank Headquarters Frankfurt am Main and Dresdner Bank Toronto, Canada |
| 1992 - 1997 | (Under-)graduate studies in English, Economics and Romance Languages at the University of Passau and in the USA (Eastern Illinois University and University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| 1973 | Born in Memmingen |
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