• PhD Candidate

Participant coding strategies in the Datooga language (working title)

• Language Documentation
• Language Typology
• Morphosyntactic alignment
• Argument structure
• Valency patterns
• Grammatical relations

Education

• Since 04/2025: PhD Candidate in CRC 1252, Project B02 (“Beyond split case marking: Participant coding strategies in East African languages”)
• 2024: Master of Arts (University of Cologne, Linguistics and Phonetics/German Language and Literature). Thesis: The impersonal construction in Datooga
• 2020: Bachelor of Arts (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, German Studies/Linguistics)

Academic Career

• 2025: Research stay in Arusha, Tanzania
• 2022–2024: Student Assistant in CRC 1252, Project B02
• 2023: Research stay in Haydom, Tanzania
• 2021–2022: Student Assistant at the Department of German Language and Literature I, Chair of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger
• 2018–2019 Student Assistant at the Department of Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf