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Biography

2023–2025

Interim Chair of English Linguistics at the Department of English, Justus Liebig University Giessen

since 2022

Senior lecturer (Akademischer Direktor, Arbeitsgruppenleiter) for English Linguistics at the Department of English, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2020–2022

Senior lecturer (Akademischer Rat/Oberrat, Arbeitsgruppenleiter) for English Linguistics at the Department of English, Justus Liebig University Giessen

Summer 2016

Visiting fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

2014–2020

Senior lecturer (Studienrat i. H.) for English Linguistics at the Department of English, Justus Liebig University Giessen

Summer 2014 Visiting assistant professor at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Summer 2014

PhD in English Linguistics with a thesis on “The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English: A Corpus-Based Study of the Nativisation of a Link Language”

2013–2014

Research assistant at the Chair of English Linguistics (Prof Mukherjee), Justus Liebig University Giessen

Winter 2012 Research stay in Hong Kong, China
Spring 2012 Research stay at EFLU Hyderabad, India
2011–2013

Research assistant at the Chair of Modern English Linguistics (Prof Lange, PD Dr Biewer), Justus Liebig University Giessen

Summer 2010 Research stay at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
2009–2011

Research assistant in the project “Verb complementation in South Asian Englishes: a study of ditransitive verbs with web-derived corpora” funded by the German Research Foundation (MU 1683/3-1; Prof Mukherjee), Justus Liebig University Giessen

2009

Graduation at Justus Liebig University Giessen (Degree: Diplom-Wirtschaftsanglist) with a thesis on verb complementation in Sri Lankan English