Degrees and titles
- 24.07.1989
Magister in Linguistics, Tübingen University. - 20. 09. 1995
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - 21.07.2004
Habilitation, Neuphilologische Fakultät, Tübingen University. - 16.01.2008
"außerplanmäßiger Professor", Tübingen University. - 21.04.2010
Venia legendi for "Germanistische und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft" and "außerplanmäßiger Professor", Humboldt University, Berlin.
Overview of employment after the Ph.D.
- 10/1995 - 03/2002
teaching positions at the German Institute of Tübingen University, at the Department of Linguistics of Rutgers University, and at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Fall 2000 and Spring 2001). - 04/2002 - 03/2008
'Assistent' in the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft (Institute for Linguistics) at Tübingen University. Twice on leave for a semester as a visiting professor at Potsdam University (Winter term 2002/03 and Winter term 2007/08). - Since 04/2008 at the Centre of General Linguistics, Berlin.
Other
- 15.12.2006
Teaching award of the state of Baden-Württemberg. - 06/2006-07/2009
Coordinator of Priority Programme 1234 "Phonological and phonetic competence: between grammar, signal processing, and neural activity".