Curriculum Vitae

Education, Stipends, Work Experience, Language Skills, Memberships

Education


School

1990-1999

Municipal Comprehensive Secondary School (Gymnasium) Eickel,
Herne, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany


Alternative Civilian Service

1999-2000

Alternative civilian service at a day-care facility of the old people's home Röhlinghausen of the German Red Cross (DRK),
Herne, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany


Studies

September 2000 - November 2004

Enrolled as a student at the University of Bochum (Ruhr-Universität), Germany
Major: Linguistics and Computational Linguistics
1st minor: Germanic Linguistics
2nd minor: Scandinavian Studies
Degree program: Magister Artium

May 15, 2003

Oral final exam in Germanic Linguistics
Subjects: Clitics in German, Low Saxon language policy

May 5, 2003

Oral final exam in Scandinavian Studies
Subjects: Germanic runes, Vilhelm Moberg's “Rid i natt!”

September 2003 - June 2004

Enrolled as an international student at Stanford University, California, USA
Subject: Linguistics and Computational Linguistics
Advisor: Professor Joan Bresnan
Degree program: MA

June 13, 2004 Master of Arts in Linguistics from Stanford University, California, USA
Subject of thesis: Possessive constructions in modern Low Saxon
Advisor: Professor Joan Bresnan
Since November 2004 PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, University of Bochum, Germany
Dissertation project: Efficient parsing of extraposed phrases
Advisor: Professor Tibor Kiss
January 2007 – March 2007Visiting researcher at the Linguistics Department at Stanford University

Stipends

February 2003 – June 2004

Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

September 2003 – May 2004

Stipend from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for one academic year at Stanford University, California, USA, and a stipend from Stanford University covering fees and tuition

September 2005 – September 2007 PhD scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
January 2007 – March 2007Travel stipend from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) to visit the Linguistics Department at Stanford University
January 2009Research stipend from Ruhr-Universität Bochum to carry out syntactic experiments


Work Experience

2001 –
autumn 2002

Collaborator in a project to write a bibliography on international research on chancery language at the German Department of the University of Bochum, Germany

August 2001 – August 2003

Student assistant at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bochum, Germany – Computational Linguistics
Employed by: Professor Tibor Kiss
Tasks: Development of statistical methods for the detection of abbreviations and sentence boundaries and evaluation of part-of-speech taggers

January 2002 – August 2003

Student assistant at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bochum, Germany – Typology and Universal Grammar
Employed by: Professor Nikolaus Himmelmann
Tasks: Working with Kurdish fieldwork data, maintenance of computers

August 2004 – December 2006 Graduate assistant at the Department of Linguistics of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany – Typology and Universal Grammar
Employed by: Professor Nikolaus Himmelmann
Tasks: Technical support for several language documentation projects (DoBeS)
April 2007 –
April 2009
Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany – General and computational linguistics
Since April 2009Lecturer and graduate assistant at the Department of Linguistics of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany – General and computational linguistics

Language Skills

Native language

German

Fluent

English, Swedish, French

Intermediate

Low Saxon, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin)

Reading ability

Historical Germanic languages: Old and Middle High German, Old Saxon, Middle Low Saxon, Old English, Old Icelandic, Gothic


Memberships

German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) and its section for Computational Linguistics

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

Society for Endangered Languages (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen e.V.) –
Currently member of the board as advisor

Low Saxon Institute (Institut für niederdeutsche Sprache, INS)









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