Curriculum Vitae

Positions

since April 2012: Professor for English Linguistics at the Abteilung Linguistik of the Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

October 2004 - March 2012: Senior lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Angstellter) at the Linguistics section (Abteilung für Neuere Englische Sprache) of the English Department (Seminar für Englische Philologie), Universität Göttingen.
October 2008 - March 2009: Acting chair for English Linguistics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
October 2007 - March 2008: Acting chair for Theoretical Computational Linguistics, Universität Bielefeld.
January 2002 - September 2004: Senior researcher in the project A5 (Distributional Idiosyncrasies) of the Collaborative Research Program SFB 441 (Linguistic Data Structures), Universität Tübingen.
October 2000 - December 2001: Senior researcher in the project A1 (Representation and Automatic Acquisition of Linguistic Data) of the Collaborative Research Program SFB 441 (Linguistic Data Structures), Universität Tübingen.
October 1997 - September 2000: Lecturer at the Department of General Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, Universität Tübingen.
April 1995 - September 1997: Researcher in the project B8 (A Syntactic Fragment of German) of the Collaborative Research Program SFB 340 (Theoretical Foundations for Computational Linguistics), Universität Tübingen.
May 1995 - September 1995: Researcher in the project Verbmobil. Universität Tübingen.

June 2010: Postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) in English and General Linguistics at the University of Göttingen.
Habilitation title: A Representational Theory of Negative Polarity Item Licensing. (Please contact me if you are interested in the file.)
September 2003: Doctoral degree in General Linguistics/Computational Linguistics at the University of Tübingen.
Dissertation title: Combinatorial Semantics and Idiomatic Expressions in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. (Defense: November 2000.)
March 1995: Magister Artium in General Linguistcs/Computer Science/Psychology at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
MA-Thesis: Remarks on Linearization. Reflections on the Treatment of LP-Rules in HPSG in a Typed Feature Logic (together with Frank Richter)
September 1992 - July 1993: DAAD exchange student at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2019 - present: Member of the Standing Committee of the International Conference on HPSG (chair since 2021)
April 2013 - June 2023: (stellvertretendes) Mitglied des Fachbereichsrats, FB 10 Neuere Philologien, Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
April 2013 - present: Mitglied des Lehr- und Studienausschusses des Fachbereichs 10 Neuere Philologien, Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.

October 2017 - March 2019: Geschäftsführender Direktor des Instituts für England- und Amerikastudien, Goethe Unversität Frankfurt a.M.
October 2013 - September 2015: Studiendekan des Fachbereichs 10 Neuere Philologien, Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
March 2012 - March 2013: Secretary of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)
April 2009 - March 2012: Member of the M.A.-Zulassungsausschuss of the Seminar für Englische Philologie, Universität Göttingen
October 2009 - March 2012: Member of the Equal Opportunities Committee of the Faculty of Philosophy (Gleichstellungskommission der Philosophischen Fakultät), Universität Göttingen