Personal Information
| Date of birth | December 29th, 1972 |
| Place of birth | Cologne (Germany) |
Education and Training
| 10/2000 -07/2003 | Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen (Germany), grade: summa cum laude Dissertation title: “Grammatische Variation und Sozialstruktur” (keywords: French interrogative syntax, sociolinguistics, linguistic methodology). supervisor: Prof. Jürgen M. Meisel, co-supervisor: Prof. Wolfgang Sternefeld |
| 10/1998 -11/2000 | Diplom in Psychology (equivalent to M.A.) , University of Bonn (Germany) |
| 10/1994 -06/1998 | Double degrees, Linguistics and Psychology, University of Toulouse 2 (France)
a. Maîtrise in Linguistics (equivalent to M.A.) b. Licence in Psychology (equivalent to B.A.) |
| 10/1993 - 09/1994 | Psychology, 1st year, University of Bonn (Germany) |
| 11/1992 - 07/1993 | French Language Course, Alliance Française, Toulouse (France), result: Diplôme de Langue Française |
Academic Work Experience
| since 10/2007 | Replacement Professorship for Linguistics at the Department for Romance Languages at the University of Hamburg (Germany). |
| 08/2007 - 10/2007 | Researcher, ZAS Berlin, subproject P11 (Questions & Answers) |
| 02/2007 - 07/2007 | Rückkehrstipendium of the DFG, ZAS Berlin |
| 11/2004 - 01/2007 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation DFG at New York University. Coordination of the project A variationist study on interrogative word order variants of French and Persian |
| 05/2000 - 10/2004 | Research Associate, University of Tübingen (Germany), Research Center Linguistic Data Structures, subproject “Suboptimal Syntactic Structures”. |
International Activities
| 2005-2007 | Member of the program committee (2005), abstract reviewer (2005-2007), and panel chair (2007) for the conference New Ways of Analyzing Variation |
| 2006, 2007, 2008 | Peer reviewer for the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition |
| 2008 | Peer reviewer for the journal Lingua |
International Research Visits
| 09/2009 | Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| 08/2009 | Department of Linguistics, New York University |
| 11/2004-01/2007 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Linguistics, New York University |
| 06/2005-08/2005 | Visiting scholar (linguistic fieldwork), Sorbonne-Nouvelle – Paris III |
| 12/2004-02/2005 | Visiting scholar (linguistic fieldwork), Allameh Tabatabai University Tehran |
| 10/2001-12/2001 04/2002-09/2002, | Visiting doctoral researcher, Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| 11/1999-12/1999 | Visiting doctoral researcher (linguistic fieldwork), Laboratoire Jacques-Lordat, Université de Toulouse II |
Other Academic Activities
| Organiser of the international workshop Diversity of Data and Perspectives in Universality and Variation 2003 |
Awards, Grants, Honors
| 11/2004 - 07/2007 | Emmy-Noether Research Grant (+ Rückkehrstipendium), German Research Foundation DFG |
| 11/2003 - 07/2004 | Grant of the interdisciplinary art, science & business program of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany) |
| 04/2002 - 09/2002 | Visiting scholar at the linguistic research group GGT of the UAB University of Barcelona (Spain), funded by the European inter-regional institution Four motors for Europe |
| 10/1995 - 09/1998 | Scholarship of the Dr. Jost-Henkel-Stiftung, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| 10/1995 - 06/1996 | Grant of the Franco-German Youth Office, Berlin / Paris, for a research internship at the University of Toulouse 2, France |
Teaching 2007-2009
See details on the Teaching page.
Supervising Activities and Member of Dissertation Committees (University of Hamburg)
| 2009 | Christine Thamm (MA), The interaction between syntax, pragmatics, and intonation in French polar questions |
| 2009/2010 | Jana Freundt (BA) |
| 2009 | Claudia Langwald (Baccalaureat). Verbal person and number inflection and null subjects in Spanish. |
| 2009 | Barbara Sastre (PhD), A sociolinguistic study on the attitude towards the language of German immigrants in Mallorca. |
Languages
| German, Persian | mother tongues |
| French, English, Spanish Italian, Catalan | fluent |
| Portuguese, Modern Greek | structural knowledge |