About Ms. Karola Schmidt

Project Scientist - Strategy India at RWTH Aachen University & ABCD Centre

Ms. Karola Schmidt

Project Scientist - Strategy India at RWTH Aachen University & ABCD Centre

Experience
  • • Oct. 2025 – present: Strategy India at RWTH Aachen University & Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre (ABCD Centre), Project Scientist
  • • Dec. 2021 – Oct. 2025: Research Assistant in English Linguistics at University of Giessen, Germany
  • 1. PhD (ongoing): Doctoral Research in English Linguistics
  • 2. Master of Arts (M.A.) in Anglophone Studies at University of Giessen, Germany
  • 3. Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in German and English Literary and Cultural Studies and Linguistics at University of Giessen, Germany
  1. 1. Funke, N., & K. Schmidt [im Review]. A Multifactorial Analysis of the Adjective Comparison Alternation in Sri Lankan English.
  2. 2. Schmidt, K. & J. Degenhardt [accepted]. Variational Metapragmatics in South Asian Englishes Newspaper Writing.
  3. 3. Schmidt, K., & N. Funke (2025). Exploration of the mandative subjunctive in Pakistani English. World Englishes 44(1-2), 202-217. Link here
  4. 4. Schmidt, K., Götz, S., Jäschke, K., & S. Th. Gries (2025). Same, same but erm sort of different? Comparing three kinds of fluencemes across British, Canadian, and New Zealand English. Research in Corpus Linguistics 13(2), 94-123. Link here
  5. 5. Schmidt, K. (2024). The subjunctive alternation in Indian English. World Englishes 44(3). Link here