- since 2000
research fellow at the ZAS - 1997 - 1999
research assistant at the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen - 1990 - 1996
assistant professor at the Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart - 1989
Doctoral degree in linguistics at the University of Stuttgart; title of the dissertation: Syntaktische Bedingungen für die semantische Interpretation: über Bindung, implizite Argument und Skopus ; thesis advisers: Hubert Haider and Hans Kamp