Professional summary
October 2024 - March 2025
Visiting scholar
Lecturer and researcher
Humboldt University of Berlin / Collaboration with Prof. Heike Wiese in the scope of the Caroline von Humboldt prize 2024
October 2024 - December 2024
Chair of Present-Day English language and Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany
April 2024 - September 2024
Guest Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder, Germany
March - August 2023
Visiting research fellow
School of Education, Communication and Society, King's College London
November 2020 - October 2024
Researcher
Researcher in the ReDICo project / Principal Investigator in the sub-project 'Digital Communities and Online Intercultural Competence', University of Potsdam
April 2018 - October 2020
Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher
Chair of Present-Day English Language and Linguistics, Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Potsdam.
April 2014 - May 2018
Adjunct lecturer
Chair of Development and Variation of the English Language, Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Potsdam.
March 2011 - June 2013
Tutor and didactic material developer
Tutor and didactic material developer for an online ESP (English for specific purposes) B.A. course – IngRede, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
May 2007 - April 2009
Adjunct lecturer
Adjunct lecturer at the English Department, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil.
February 2002 - March 2011
English teacher
English teacher in language schools in Brazil.
Academic education
May 2018 - December 2024
Postdoctoral studies
Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Potsdam.
January 2014 - May 2018
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics
Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Potsdam. Dissertation: “Business negotiations between Brazilians and Germans: Conceptualization and Practice”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Wolf and Prof. Ulrike Schröder. Grant from CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel), Brazil. Grade: summa cum laude.
March 2011 - June 2013
M.A. in Applied Linguistics
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thesis: “American English X Brazilian English: Intra- and Intercultural Communication in the classroom”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder. Grant from CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel), Brazil.
April 2002 - March 2006
B.A. in English Language
Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil