She is also the coordinator of the AUC Centre of Writing Excellence, which opened its doors in October 2015. She received her MA in English Literature and Linguistics from the VU Amsterdam. During her degree she studied in Wisconsin, USA, and in Cardiff, Wales. She completed her PhD in Contrastive Corpus Linguistics at the VU University Amsterdam. Her main research and teaching interests are contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, writing skills and academic skills in general. In addition to her job as a lecturer at AUC, Lotte is the founder and owner of B-eloquent, for which she develops and teaches a wide range of English language courses at various companies and research institutions (see website below for more information).