October 2001-September 2002

Postdoctoral stay at Stanford University (Linguistics Department and Computer Science Department; sponsors: Joan Bresnan and Christopher Manning)

May 2001

Oral exam for doctoral degree (Dr. phil.), Universität Stuttgart (overall grade for dissertation and oral exam: ``with distinction'')

January 2001

Doctoral dissertation handed in (Formal and Computational Aspects of Optimality-theoretic Syntax)

November 1996

Diplom Degree in Linguistics, Universität Stuttgart (grade: ``with distinction'')

October 1995 - November 1996

Universität Stuttgart: Master-level studies in Computational Lingusitics

October 1994 - August 1995

University of Edinburgh: MSc Course in Cognitive Science and Natural Language (as a non-graduating student)

October 1991 - September 1994

Universität Stuttgart: Undergraduate studies in Computational Lingusitics

May 1990

Abitur (high school graduation/A-levels; grade: 1.0)

1981 - 1990

Gymnasium Renningen: Secondary School

1977 - 1981

Friedrich-Silcher-Schule, Renningen-Malmsheim: Primary School

since January 2010

Professor of Foundations of Computational Linguistics, Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart

October 2006-December 2009

Professor of Theoretical Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany

March 2005-October 2009

Principal Investigator of Emmy Noether project group PTOLEMAIOS,
(March 2005-2006:) Saarland University, Saarbrücken;
(since 2007-2009:) Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany

January 2003-2005

Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin [as of September 2005: adjunct faculty status]

October 2001 - September 2002

Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Department of Linguistics, Postdoctoral research project awarded by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

December 1996 - September 2001

Researcher at the Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart
Projects:
- The Parallel Grammar Development project (ParGram project; collaboration with Xerox PARC, Xerox Grenoble, and the University of Bergen)
- Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 340, project B12: Methods for extending, maintaining and optimizing a large grammar of German
- The TIGER project Linguistic Interpretation of a German corpus

November 1995 - October 1996

Student research assistant at IMS Stuttgart
Project: SFB 340, project C4: Aspects of Prosodic Structure for Discourse Representation Theory

August 1995 - October 1995

Internship at IBM Heidelberg, Institut für Logik und Linguistik
Project: Verbmobil (machine translation); work on aspects of intonation and focus

1992 - 1994

Student research assistant at IMS Stuttgart
Project: Development of HPSG grammars with the Typed Feature Structures System (TFS)

July 1990 - September 1991

Community service at the Karl-Olga-Krankenhaus (Hospital), Stuttgart

 Other professional activities (selection)

2005-

Referee for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Science Foundation)

2004-

Referee for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

2004-

Consultant for an IT company

2003-

Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Semantics

2003-2005

Consultant for the project Linguistic research on text interpretation, led by Carlota Smith, Linguistics Dept., UT Austin

2001-2004

Member of the Program Committee of the LFG Conference (2001-2002 with Rachel Nordlinger, 2002-2004 with Tara Mohanan)

1999-

Reviewer for the journal Computational Linguistics, the Journal of Semantics, CSLI Publications, the ACL conference, the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique de Paris, the Formal Grammar conference, and other conferences/workshops

1999

Chair of the programme committee for the student sessions at EACL'99, Bergen (with Atro Voutilainen as the faculty co-chair)

1996

Member of the organization committee for Tagung für Computerlinguistik-Studenten (TaCoS '96), Universität Stuttgart

 Awards, scholarships, and funded projects

2007

Project D4 in SFB 632, Potsdam/Berlin

2004

Emmy Noether project grant awarded by DFG (German Science Foundation): 4-year funding of a research group

2003 - 2004

Instructional technology grant by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin

2001 - 2002

Postdoctoral research scholarship, awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), for a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University

1991 - 1996

Scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

1993

First prize (category combo) in the music competition Jugend jazzt, Baden-Württemberg; as band leader, composer/arranger and saxophone player with the 12 piece ensemble Some More of That Jazz

1989

Prize winner in the classics competition Schülerwettbewerb ``Alte Sprachen'', Baden-Württemberg

1988

Finalist in the classics competition Schülerwettbewerb ``Alte Sprachen'', Baden-Württemberg