CV & Academic Service

from 2017
Professor for German Linguistics
Institute for German Language and Literature I
University of Cologne

2011-2017
Assistant professor for empirical approaches to the English language
Department of English and American Studies
Humboldt University Berlin

2007-2011
Researcher
DFG-funded project Semantic and pragmatic effects of topicality
SFB 632 Information Structure
Department of German Language and Linguistics
Humboldt University Berlin
PI: Manfred Krifka

2007
Researcher
SFB 632 Information Structure
Department of Linguistics
Potsdam University
PI: Manfred Krifka, Peter Staudacher

2006
Ph.D. Theoretical Linguistics
Humboldt University Berlin

2004-2007
Research Associate
Institute of German Linguistics
Humboldt University Berlin

2000-2003
Scholarship Holder
Graduate School 275: Economy and Complexity in Language
Humboldt University Berlin and University of Potsdam

1998-1999
Computational Linguist
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Ypres, Belgium

1998
M.A. Free University Berlin

1992-1998
M.A. Studies English, General Linguistics, Media and Communication Studies
Leipzig, Berlin, Antwerp, Brussels

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Academic Service & Memberships

• Chair of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (since 2024)
• Co-Spokesperson CRC 1252 Prominence in Language (since 2021)
• Advisory Board Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (2019-2023)
• Steering committee Cologne Center of Language Sciences (University of Cologne; seit 2017)
• Key Profile Area VI Skills and Structures in Language and Cognition (University of Cologne)
• Gesellschaft für Semantik
• XPrag: New Pragmatic Theories, DFG Priority Program