Curriculum Vitae
from 2014
Professor for German Linguistics (Empirical Methods in Linguistics) at the University of Cologne, Germany
2012-2013
Interim Professor for German Linguistics at the University of Cologne, Germany
2008-2014
Head of Emmy Noether Independent Junior Researcher Group “Information structure and neurocognitive foundations” (DFG funded) at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and at the University of Cologne, Germany
2008
Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Language Acquisition), Nijmegen, the Netherlands
2005-2008
Researcher in the DFG Project “Referentialization of determiner phrases in discourse” at the University of Marburg, Germany
2004-2005
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
1998-2004
PhD studies in Linguistics at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- 2004: PhD in Linguistics with the dissertation: "Representation and Interpretation at the Syntax-Discourse Interface: Establishing Dependency"
- 2002: M.Phil. in Linguistics
- 1999: M.A. in Linguistics
1992-1998
Diploma in English and Business at the University Mannheim, Germany
with the thesis "Sprachwitz im Diskurs – Linguistische Ansätze zu einer Analyse verbalen Humors"