Her PhD focused on the linguistic patterns in academic text. Prior to her appointment in Bremen, she stood in for the professor of applied linguistics at the Leuphana University Lüneburg and was a visiting professor at the KU Leuven, Belgium, and University of Teheran, Iran. Her work is focused on research into and didactics of writing, media linguistics, corpus linguistics, and grammar. At the University of Bremen, she is evaluating the learning efficacy of writing tasks and written formats in degrees and is analyzing to what extent such work qualifies students for possible career paths.