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Andreas is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on Strand 2 of the MEITS project, which focuses on standard languages, norms and variation in multilingual contexts. Taking a historical-sociolinguistic perspective on these topics, Andreas seeks to explore multilingual practices and language contact in the Dutch-German borderlands, which have often been "invisibilized" in traditionally monolingual histories of Dutch and German, particularly in the long nineteenth century. Before joining MEITS in January 2019, Andreas completed his PhD at Leiden University with a thesis on the Dutch language policy of the early 1800s and its effects on actual language usage.