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General Linguistics
Department for Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne, Germany

Tel: +49-221-470-5639
Fax: +49-221-470-5947

E-Mail: asi[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

Curriculum Vitae

since 2020 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne, on "A cross-linguistic investigation of the relationship between language vitality and ethnobiological knowledge transmission"
2018–2019 Community linguist for Aboriginal Resource & Development Service (ARDS) at Minjilang, Northern Territory, Australia
2017–2018 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne
2013–2016 McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
2008–2012 PhD in Linguistics from the Australian National University – "The traditional ecological knowledge of the Solega – a linguistic perspective"
2007 PGrad. Dip. in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne – "A diachronic investigation of Hindi-English code-switching in urban India"
2001–2004 PhD in Neuroscience from the Australian National University – "Behavioural and pharmacological studies on learning and memory in the honeybee, Apis mellifera"
1996–1998 B. Sc. Honours (Marine Biology) from James Cook University. "The nutrition of Sphaeroma terebrans, a wood boring isopod, with notes on its usage of driftwood in Stuart Creek, North Queensland", (Honours thesis, 1999).