Frank Lorenz is a senior lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Erfurt, with over twenty years of teaching experience. Specializing in phonetics and phonology, his teaching also focuses on other linguistic disciplines such as sociolinguistics and variationist linguists. He has previously served as interim Professor for Speech Science and Phonetics at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and has also been involved in the SALi education reform project at the University of Erfurt.