Curriculum Vitae
Education, Stipends, Work Experience, Language Skills, Memberships
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| School |
| 1990-1999 | Municipal Comprehensive Secondary
School (Gymnasium) Eickel, |
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| 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), |
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| Studies |
| September 2000 - November 2004 | Enrolled as a
student at the University of Bochum (Ruhr-Universität), Germany |
| May 15, 2003 | Oral
final exam in Germanic Linguistics |
| May 5, 2003 | Oral
final exam in Scandinavian Studies |
| September 2003 - June 2004 | Enrolled as an international student at
Stanford University, California, USA |
| 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 2007 | Visiting researcher at the Linguistics Department at Stanford University |
| 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 2007 | Travel stipend from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) to visit the Linguistics Department at Stanford University |
| January 2009 | Research stipend from Ruhr-Universität Bochum to carry out syntactic experiments |
| 2001 – | 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 |
| January 2002 – August 2003 | Student
assistant at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bochum,
Germany – Typology and Universal Grammar |
| 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 2009 | Lecturer and graduate assistant at the Department of Linguistics of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany – General and computational linguistics |
| Native language |
German |
| Fluent | English, Swedish, French |
| Intermediate |
Low Saxon, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin) |
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Reading ability | Historical Germanic languages: Old and Middle High German, Old Saxon, Middle Low Saxon, Old English, Old Icelandic, Gothic |
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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.) – |
| Low Saxon Institute (Institut für niederdeutsche Sprache, INS) |