Alumni Ambassadors: Dr. Korakoch Attaviriyanupap

Dr. Korakoch Attaviriyanupap visited the University of Siegen for the first time in 2009 as part of a research collaboration. Since then, together with her cooperation partner Prof. Dr. Petra Vogel and other colleagues, she has repeatedly conducted research on questions of contrastive linguistics of the German and Thai languages during various research stays in Siegen. Her findings are of particular interest to the Department of German as a Foreign Language at her university in Bangkok. This field of research, which Dr. Attaviriyanupap is involved in, is widespread in Thailand. 
In addition to her commitment to research, Dr. Attaviriyanupap also participates in the international exchange between alumni of the University of Siegen and the research projects that develop from this within the framework of the Alumni Academy. 

Dr. Korakoch Attaviriyanupap: "The Phra Pathom Chedi, the highest Buddhist chedi in the world, is a landmark of the city of Nakhon Pathom in Thailand, about 60 kilometers southwest of Bangkok. 

My university, Silpakorn University, has a campus in this city, where our German department is located. If you travel south by train in Thailand, you pass this city and see this large chedi from the train. I therefore find a connection here with the little crown in Siegen, which I can see on the train to Siegen."