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. in 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. in 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
2023-2025
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
2021-2024
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
International Experience
2024
Presentation and workshop organization at the SLE conference in Helsinki (Finland)
Fieldwork in West Papua (Indonesia)
2023-2025
Postdoctoral researcher at CNRS-Lattice in Paris (France)
2023
Invited talk at the Séminaire du Lattice in Montrouge
(France)
Presentation at the FEMIDAL workshop in Fontainebleau (France)
2022
AHRC Project Meeting on “Enggano in the Austronesian family” in Oxford (England);
ECL examiner for German (A2 to C1) in Jakarta (Indonesia);
AHRC Project Meeting on “Enggano in the Austronesian family” in Uppsala (Sweden)
2020
Presentation at the Linguistics Seminar Series in Newcastle
(Australia);
Wedding in Surabaya (Indonesia)
2019
Presentation at the 50th Conference of the Australian
Linguistic Society in Sydney (Australia);
Presentation at the 11th International Conference on Oceanic
Linguistics in Nouméa (New Caledonia);
Poster presentation at the LSA Linguistic Institute in Davis (California, USA);
Presentation at the 11th Austronesian and Papuan Languages
and Linguistics Conference in Leiden (Netherlands);
Presentation at the Australian Languages Workshop in Marysville
(Australia)
2018-2019
Linguistic Fieldwork in Pine Creek (Australia);
Linguistic Fieldwork in Vanua Lava (Vanuatu)
2018
Presentation at the 49th Conference of the Australian
Linguistics Society in Adelaide (Australia);
Presentation at the Vanuatu Languages Conference in Port Vila
(Vanuatu);
Presentation at the HDR Symposium in Newcastle (Australia);
Presentation at the 7th East Nusantara Conference in Kupang
(Indonesia)
2017-2020
PhD Candidature in Newcastle (Australia)
2016
Armenian language course at the American University of Armenia
(Հայաստանի ամերիկյան համալսարան) in Yerevan (Armenia);
Invited talk at the Sociolinguistics Reading Group in Leiden
(Netherlands)
2015
Presentation at the 5th International Symposium on the
Languages of Java in Bandung (Indonesia)
2014-2015
Indonesian language course as part of the Darmasiswa
scholarship at the Universitas Surabaya in Surabaya (Indonesia)
2014
Participation in the cultural program of Beasiswa Seni dan
Budaya Indonesia at UPN Veteran in Yogyakarta (Indonesia)
2013
Representation of Germany at the International Speech Contest
of the Malay Language in Putrajaya (Malaysia)
2009-2010
Teacher assistant at RIS Swiss School (โรงเรียนนานาชาติร่วมฤดีวิเทศศึกษา) in Bangkok (Thailand)
2007
Study trip to London (England) and Alloa (Scotland)
Individual backpacking trips through the following countries:
Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brunei
Burma
Cambodia
Canada
China
Croatia
Czechia
Denmark
England
Finland
France
Gibraltar
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Indonesia
Italy
Kosovo
Kuwait
Laos
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macau
Malaysia
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Netherlands
New Caledonia
North Macedonia
Oman
Poland
Qatar
Scotland
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
USA
Vanuatu
Vietnam
Wales