Employment:

• October 2020 to present
  Language Lecturer (Fremdsprachenlektorin) at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Tübingen
• 2014 – 2020
  Language Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin mit ausschließlicher Lehrtätigkeit) at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at the University of Hamburg
• 2013 – 2014
  Language Lecturer (Sprachlehrerin, substitute, fixed term) at the Landesspracheninstitut (LSI) at the Ruhr University Bochum
• 2010 – 2013
  Language Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben, part time) at the Language Center at Freie Universität Berlin
• 2009 – 2010
  Language Lecturer and Project Manager (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben, part time in external funding) at the Institute of Political Science and Japanese Studies at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Education:

• 2002 – 2008
  Doctoral student of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University (2002–2008), at the Department of German Studies and Linguistics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2004–2008)
• 1994 – 2002
  Student of Linguistics and Information Science, Language and Society at Osaka University of Foreign Studies, M.A. from the Graduate School of Integrated Studies in Language and Society at Osaka University of Foreign Studies (2000), Student of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University, M.A. from the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University (2002)

Memberships:

• The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
• The Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe (AJE)
• Verein für Japanische Hochschulen (JaH)
• Verein zur Förderung des Japanisch-Unterrichts an VHS
• Association for Language and Cultural Education (ALCE)
• The Japanese Society for Mother Tongue, Heritage Language, and Bilingual Education (MHB)
• Belgian Association of Japanese Language Teacher

Further Activities:

Peer Reviewer:

(2019)
the Association for Language and Cultural Education (ALCE)

Editorial Committee / Editorial Board:

(2009, 2014, 2017, 2018)
Editorial Committee member of The Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe (AJE)

(2020 to present)
Editorial Board Member of the Association for Language and Cultural Education (ALCE)

Research Collaborator:

(KAKENHI) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) – Research Collaborator
Period: 01.04.2013 – 31.03.2017
Title: Constructing a Global Network of Japanese Language Instructors Teaching at Universities.
Principle Investigator: Akemi Kurachi (Hiroshima University)

(KAKENHI) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) – Research Collaborator
Period: 01.04.2014 – 31.03.2019
Title: Development of a New Toolkit to Aid in Assessment of Writing in Japanese: An Integrated Approach Utilizing Human and Machine Evaluation
Principle Investigator: Mari Tanaka (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)