MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health, King's College London (2020)
PhD in English Language Pedagogy, Eotvos Lorand University (2012)
MA in English Linguistics and TESOL, Eotvos Lorand University (2001)
MA in French Literature and Linguistics, Eotvos Lorand University (2001)

Academic positions held

2022 -
University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
Lecturer in English Language and ESP
2016 – 2022
University of Hildesheim, Germany
Lecturer in English Language and TESOL, Teacher trainer (GHR-300)
2012 – 2016
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
Lecturer in English Applied Linguistics, Post-Doc Principal Researcher in the Study-Abroad Project
2006 – 2012
Eötvös Loránd University, School of English and American Studies Lecturer in English and Applied Linguistics

Non-academic employment

2004 – 2006
European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
EU Civil servant employed in HR administration
2002 – 2004
French Embassy in Budapest, Hungary
Multilingual consular assistant

Projekte

Ongoing

Teaching Technical English for Engineers (University of Applied Sciences of Bielefeld)
Habilitation/Book Project: Environmental factors in cognitive and linguistic development: Socioeconomic status and multilingualism (with Prof. Kristin Kersten, University of Mannheim)
Multilingualism and multilingual education in South Africa - Identity and multilingualism in society (with Jennifer Alina Dalnodar, M.Ed., English teacher)
Noise in the assessment of secondary students´ written assignments in English (with Martin Bastkowski, M.Ed., English teacher)
Enjoyment and ESL (with Dr Cirsten Carlson, University of Hildesheim)

2012 – 2016

Pragmatic development during study-abroad – The role of individual differences in motivation and anxiety
Designing innovative online, web-based EFL, ESP and EAP courses
Early bilingual experience and pragmatic learning in various EFL contexts

2008 – 2012

PhD Research Project - Task complexity and second language narrative production: Effects of individual differences in working memory, foreign language aptitude and anxiety
Corpus linguistic study of English language EU documents: lexical and grammatical features of EU English