Dr. Seveker works at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück. She studied Philology of Foreign Languages and German at the Pedagogical University of Barnaul/Russia from 1993 to1998. Initially, she worked as an interpreter for Russian and German for the GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH) in the years 2000-2001 and as a teaching assistant of German at the Altai State University of Barnaul/ Russia from 1998-2000. From 2002 to 2005 she was a member of the Postgraduate School of the German National Research Association (DFG) “Migration in Modern Europe” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück. From 2004 to 2007 she worked as a researcher at the Institute for Political Sciences at the University of Münster. In 2006 she finished her doctorate at the department of educational and cultural sciences at the University of Osnabrück (Dissertation thesis: Adult German-Language Teaching in the Altai Region/ Western Siberia in the Context of Integration and Resettlement).