Vita
Positions Held
Since 01/2019
Akademischer Rat at the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Department of German Studies, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
08/2013-03/2019
Akademischer Rat auf Zeit at the Institute of German Studies and Literature I, University of Cologne
08/2010–07/2013
Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrueck
07/2007–07/2010
Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Researcher in the Research Project A2 Semantic and Pragmatic Effects of Topicality of the Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB) 632 Information Structure, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Principal Investigator: Manfred Krifka
04/2009–07/2009
Deputy for the W3-Chair in Theoretical Linguistics of English at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (chairholder: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Beck).
09/2003–06/2007
Researcher in the Project A2 Quantification and Information Structure of the Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB) 632 Information Structure, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Principal Investigators: Manfred Krifka, Peter Staudacher
09/2002–08/2003
Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Theoretical Computer Linguistics at the University of Potsdam
1997–2000
Student Research Assistant at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Regensburg
Education
2015
Cumulative Habilitation, University of Cologne
2006
PhD, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (with distinction, summa cum laude). PhD Thesis: "Q-adverbs as Selective Binders: The Quantificational Variability of Free Relatives and Definite DPs". Supervisors: Manfred Krifka, Peter Staudacher
2000
M.A. in Theoretical Linguistics and Sociology M.A. Thesis: "A Critical Evaluation of the Minimalist Program with Respect to its Underlying Theoretical Assumptions". Supervisors: Herbert Brekle, Helmut Weiß
1993-2000
M.A. Studies at the University of Regensburg in Theoretical Linguistics, Sociology and Philosophy
Areas of Specialization
Semantics
Pragmatics
Syntax-Semantics Interface
Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Grants
Since November 2017
Principal Investigator in the project Project Bound-Variable-Like Interpretations of Demonstrative Pronouns, Complex Demonstratives and Definite Descriptions, associated project of the Priority Program XPrag.de, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a period of three years, with one postdoctoral researcher (Dr. Umesh Patil) and two student research assistants.
Since January 2017
Pricipal Investigator in the project C05 Discourse Referents as Perspectival Centers of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1252 Prominence in Language, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a period of four years, with one doctoral researcher (Sara Meuser) and two student research assistants.
April 2014 - March 2017
Principal Investigator (together wit Prof. Peter Bosch, University of Osnabrueck) in the project The Referential and Binding Properties of German Demonstrative Pronouns, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a period of three years, with one postdoctoral researcher (Dr. Umesh Patil) and four student research assistants.
2000-2002
Scholarship holder within the PhD Program Economy and Complexity in Language (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Universität Potsdam), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).