Research and technical consultation

As a researcher specializing in physics, nanoscience, materials science, and engineering, my research consulting business provides companies and universities in Europe and Asia (China, Korea, and India) with

  • scientific/technical consultation in interdisciplinary and international projects,
  • mentoring of graduate students,
  • data analysis and interpretation, calculation, modeling, and materials characterization,
  • academic review, book, chapter, or monograph consultation,
  • proposal coordination/consultation, and
  • due diligence and feasibility studies.

Scientific and technical language services

As a bilingual author and editor, I provide writing & editing support and consultation for scientific and technical content as well as other non-fiction endeavours in English and German. Due to my extensive international experience, I specialize in working with non-native speakers and writing for a diverse readership. I am proud to have developed a reliable international network of scientists and language experts that enable me to offer technical translations in other language pairs (see below) and provide my clients with accurate and precisely edited technical documents.  Typical texts or documents include but are not limited to:

  • articles for publication in peer reviewed journals, 
  • monographs and books including ebooks,
  • research and business proposals,
  • presentation/training slides including subtitles and accompanying text,
  • conference presentations and posters including data presentation,
  • theses/dissertations (students and professors),
  • instruction manuals,
  • autobiographies,
  • web content, and
  • cover letters.

I offer the following language services:

  • Editing:
    • developmental and project (includes management)
    • substantive
    • copy/line
    • mechanical (Chicago Manual of Style or that of publisher)
    • formatting
    • fact-checking
    • plagiarism check
    • indexing and referencing (cross and literature)
  • Translation (various language pairs including English-German, English-Korean, German-Korean, Arabic-English, Vietnamese-English, Russian-English)
  • Scientific/technical review and consultation
  • Writing consultation and coaching
  • Technical and non-fiction writing including ghostwriting
  • Typesetting
  • Design and publication preparation