Curriculum Vitae

Education

2017-2021

PhD at the University of Newcastle, Australia

Thesis: "Towards a Theory of Complex Predicates in Australian and Oceanic languages: An Analysis of Coverb Constructions in Wagiman and Serial Verb Constructions in Vurës" (PDF)

Supervisors: A/Prof Bill Palmer, A/Prof Mark Harvey, Dr Catriona Malau

2015-2017

M.A. Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt

Focus: Comparative Linguistics

Master's Thesis: "A Description of Surabayan Javanese with Special Reference to its Linguistic Etiquette" (PDF)

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert, Prof. Dr. Bernd Nothofer

2009-2015

B.A. Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt

Major: Indo-European Studies

Minor: Southeast Asian Studies

Bachelor's Thesis: "Language Contact: Malay Influence on Thai" (PDF)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bernd Nothofer

Work

Since 2023

Postdoctoral researcher in the ComPLETE project at CNRS-Lattice Paris, École Normale Supérieure – Sorbonne Nouvelle

Since 2022

Interpreter at the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) for English and Indonesian;

Certified and sworn translator for Indonesian and Malay in Germany, website: www.kraussetranslations.com

Since 2021

Research Assistant in the AHRC Project of the University of Oxford to investigate the Enggano language

2022-2023

Research assistant with Appen to digitize the Larrakia language collection by Mark Harvey;

English teacher at Elsterwerda Elsterschloss High School and the Technical Colleges of Schwarzheide and Sedlitz, Germany

2022

German teacher for Ukrainian refugees at the community college (VHS) in Elsterwerda, Germany

2021-2023

Content creator at Mango Languages for the German grammar section in Farmington Hills, MI (online);

2021-2022

Freelance German Teacher for Germany Indonesia Professionals, Berlin (online)

2020-2022

Teaching assistant in Advanced Thai III at the Goethe University in Frankfurt (online)

2019

Tutor for Introduction to Linguistics at the University of Newcastle, Australia

2017-2019

Postgraduate Student Representative for the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS).

2016-2017

Library assistant for Indian books at the Library for Empirical Linguistics in Frankfurt, Germany

2015-2017

Tutor for General Linguistics, Syntax, and Linguistic Typology at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany

2015

Representative for Indonesia at Frankfurt Book Fair;

Translator English>German for the comic “Adventure of Esther and Kartolo: Our Sea“ for Ikatan Penerbit Indonesia (IKAPI)

2014

Teaching assistant for German at Exzellent Institut in Surabaya, Indonesia;

Teaching assistant for German at SMA Negeri 15 in Surabaya, Indonesia

2013

Teacher for an intensive German Course at YFU for Thai exchange students in Lüneburg, Germany

2012

German Teacher at High School SMA Negeri 1 Sooko in Mojokerto, Indonesia

2012-2014

Tutor for Thai writing system at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany (material)

2011-2014

Library assistant at the Asian Library in Frankfurt, Germany

2011

Internship at the Southeast Asia Information Center (Editorial, proofreading) in Essen, Germany (now in Cologne)

2011-2013

Undergraduate research assistant in the Old German joint annotation project DDD Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Goethe University of Frankfurt, and Schiller University of Jena

2010

Chaperone on 4th grade field trip of Ruamrudee International School Swiss Section to the Baan Kwai (Buffalo Village) in Suphanburi, Thailand;

Chaperone at the Deutschcamp in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand

2009-2010

Teaching assistant at Ruamrudee International School Swiss Section, 1st to 12th grade, in Bangkok, Thailand for German, French, Science, Mathematics, PE including swimming / Further activities: Proofreading, taking care of first graders, accounting, inventory, translation

2008-2009

Freelancer as a text writer at texte4you (now: webRichtUng GmbH);

Coach in the local swimming club TSV Lubwart in Bad Liebenwerda, Germany

2005-2007

Private tutor for French

2005

Internship at the advertising agency Rosenhahn (textile printing, film printing, billboard labeling) in Bad Liebenwerda, Germany;

Student internship at the local TV station Elster TV (technology, cut) in Elsterwerda, Germany;

Unpaid interpreter for French and Spanish on a guided tour in Bad Liebenwerda, Germany