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) |
| 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
| 10/2007-01/2008 | Replacement Professorship (W3) for Romance Linguistics at the University of Hamburg (Germany).
Teachings: (i) Semantics of Spanish and Portuguese, (ii) Introduction to suprasegmental phonology and its interaction with Syntax, (iii) Syntax and Semantics of wh-questions from a typological perspective (for graduate students), (iv) Social variation at the level of syntax (for graduate students) |
| 08/2007 - 10/2007 | Research Associate, 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”. |
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 |
Other Academic Activities
| Reviewer for journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition |
| Abstract reviewer for the conference New Ways of Analyzing Variation (2004, 2007); member of the program committee for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 34 (2004) |
| Organiser of the international workshop Diversity of Data and Perspectives in Universality and Variation 2003 |
Languages
| German, Persian | mother tongues |
| French, English, Spanish Italian | fluent |
| Catalan, Portuguese | structural knowledge |