| Professional Career | ||
| since 01 2023 | Assisstent Professor University of Lübeck | |
| since 09 2019 | Senior Research Fellow University of Lübeck | |
| 2012-2019 | Professor of Speech an Language Therapy at the European University of Applied Sciences, Rostock | |
| 2008-2012 | Chair of Department of Speech at the University of Applied Sciences Fresenius, at Hamburg | |
| 2004-2007 | Professor of Logopedics (Child Language) University of Applied Sciences Fresenius, Idstein | |
| 2005-2006 | Honorary member of the Dep. of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield, GB | |
| 2003-2004 | Lecturer /Research Associate at the Dep. of Speech of the European University of Applied Sciences Fresenius, Idstein | |
| since 2000 | - Freelance lecturer - Freelance supervisor of MSc dissertations/ PhD students at German and European Universities |
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| 2000-2003 | Freelance therapist of childhood speech and language disorders at the private practice | |
| Education | 1997-2000 | PhD Student at the Dep. of Speech of Newcastle University
Title of thesis: The phonological development and the classification of speech disorders in German-speaking children. Supervision: Prof. B. Dodd, Dr. G. Docherty |
| 1996-1997 | MSc Neurospycholinguistics at the Dep. of Speech of Newcastle University | |
| 1993-1996 | Fulltime employee at the private practice of SLT Special interest: childhood speech and language disorders | |
| 1990-1993 | Degree of Speech and Language Therapy at the College of SLT at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany | |
| Memberships |
dbl – Deutscher Bundesverband für Logopädie since 1993 (Member of Education Society 2001-2009) | |
| GISKID - Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Spracherwerbsforschung und Sprachstörungen im deutschsprachigen Raum (since Mai 2011 founding member, treasurer) | ||
| IASCL – International Association for the Study of Child Language (since 2005) | ||
| IALP – International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (Child Language Committee 2005-2009) | ||
| IALP – International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (Child Speech Committee since 2018) | ||