Profile

Professional career

• since 04/2008
  Chair for Ibero-Romance Linguistics and Translation Studies, Institute for Applied LInguistics and Translatology, Leipzig University
• 10/2007 - 03/2008
  Substitution of a professorship for Ibero-Romance Linguistics and Translation Studies at the Institute for Applied Linguistics and Translatology at the University of Leipzig
• 04/2002 - 03/2008
  Research assistant (C1) at the Chair of French Language / Gallo-Romance and Ibero-Romance Languages and Dialects (Prof. Dr. Werner Thielemann) at the Institute of Romance Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• 04/2001 - 03/2002
  Substitution of an assistant position at the Chair of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Gerda Haßler) at the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Potsdam
• since 01/1907
  Freelance translator and interpreter (Deutsch <> Spanisch, Portugiesisch, Katalanisch, Galicisch)
• since 10/1996
  Sworn translator and interpreter for courts and notaries

Education

• 10/1991 - 01/1997
  Degree Translation Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Humboldt University, Berlin
• 10/1995 - 01/1997
  Postgraduate studies Teaching German as a Foreign Language, Humboldt University, Berlin
• 10/1997 - 02/2002
  PhD Spanish Linguistics, Potsdam University
• 04/2002 - 08/2007
  Second Book / post-doctoral lecturing qualification, Romance Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin

Variational Linguistics

Language contact research

Knowledge and cultural transfer

Translatology with a focus on perceptive translatology

Historiography of Translatology

Historiography of Linguistics

Minority languages, language planning and linguistic normalisation

Translation and language planning

General and Ibero-Romance Linguistics

Translatology with a focus on translation studies 

Knowledge and cultural transfer

Variational Linguistics

Translation, technical translation Spanish-German

Translation, technical translation Catalan-German

Translation, technical translation Portuguese-German

Translation, technical translation Galician-German