Born in Luxembourg, I grew up in a multilingual environment (with beside my first language Luxembourgish, i.a. German, French and English as L2). As such, I was from early on confronted with different areas of social and linguistic contact between various languages. During my linguistic studies in Bamberg/Germany, my main interest became focused on the sounds of the languages - the way they are produced and perceived and the way they interact in communication. Always curious to learn something new, I peer into other linguistic branches and areas as well.

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The learning of i.a. Latin, Old Greek, Old Church Slavonic and different modern languages such as Spanish, Czech and Portuguese, and the teaching of some of them gave me a broad insight into grammatical forms, functions and linguistic systems. A knowledge I use both in research and teaching - and in scientific transfer to the general public and society.