2019- Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group "Nominal Modification"
2017- Appointment as a W3 professor for Portuguese and Spanish linguistics, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2014- Spokesperson of the GRADE Center 'Language', Goethe Research Academy, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2011- Elected member of the Faculty Board of the Department of Modern Languages, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2016-2018 Vice dean, Department of Modern Languages, Goethe University Frankfurt.
2016 Offer of a professorship for 'Intercultural studies and Multilingualism', University of Vienna (rejected)
2012-2016 Senator (deputy), Goethe-University Frankfurt
2011-2013 Head of the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2010 Appointment as a professor for Portuguese and Spanish linguistics at Goethe-University Frankfurt
2009 Offer of a W2 professorship for Spanish and French linguistics at Bergische University of Wuppertal (rejected)
2008/9 Replacement for a C4-professorship in Romance Linguistics, Romance Department, University of Hamburg
2007-2010 Researcher. Romance department, University of Hamburg
1999-2007 Research assisstant and Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Collaborative research center on 'Multilingualism'/Uni Hamburg
2005 Ph. D in Portuguese Linguistics, University of Hamburg. Dissertation: 'Syntaktische Varation aus synchrnischer und
diachronischer Perspektive: die Entwicklung der Wortstellung im Portugiesischen' (Syntactic variation from synchronic and diachronic perspective: the development of word order in Portuguese).
1999 Magister' in Portuguese and German Language and Literature, University of Hamburg. Thesis: 'Zur Syntax des flektierten Infinitivs im europäischen Portugiesisch. Eine diachronische Studie' (About the syntax of the inflected infinitive in European Portuguese. A diachronic study).
1991-1999 Studies in German Linguistics and Literature, Philosophy, and Portuguese at the Universities of Jena, Lisbon, and Hamburg.