Ulrike Gut holds the Chair for Applied English Linguistics at the University of Augsburg. She obtained first degrees in English, psychology and linguistics from the University of Mannheim and the University of Cambridge, gained a doctoral degree in English linguistics at the University of Mannheim and received her habilitation in English and phonetics from the University of Freiburg in the Breisgau. Her main research interests are phonetics and phonology, second language acquisition, corpus linguistics and varieties of English.