Education
- 1999-2005
PhD student Queen Margaret University College Edinburgh, PhD "Articulatory correlates of the voicing contrast in alveolar obstruent production in German" - 1996-2000
Student of Drama/Cultural Communication, German Linguistics, New German Literature at Humboldt University Berlin (Intermediate examination) - 1991-1998
Student of Speech Science and Speech Therapy at Humboldt University Berlin Diploma (level A), Final Work on: Speaking styles in presenting the radio news - 1989-1991
Student of Social Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Temporal positions held
- Since 2008
Full time position at the BMBF project on "Boundary phenomena in speech" at ZAS Berlin - 2005
Guest researcher at the Institut de la Communication Parlée Grenoble (3 months) - 2003-2007
German Research Council - project (full time position) "Articulatory economy and perceptive discrimination" at ZAS Berlin - 1999-2003
German Research Council - project (half time position) "Analysis-by-synthesis of articulatory movements)" at ZAS Berlin
Grants and awards
- Since 2010
DFG project Speechart (Principal Investigator) - 2008-2012
PILIOS project between ZAS, HU Berlin and GIPSA-lab Grenoble, supported by the DFH Saarbrücken with more than 260000 Euro - 2007
Christian Benoit Award (7500 Euro) - 2007
Grants to support the International Summer school from CNRS, DFG & AFCP, (app. 12000 Euro) - 2004
Grant to support the German-French Summer school from the DFH Saarbrücken (13000 Euro) - 2003
ISCA Grant for participation at ICPhS Barcelona (245 Euro) - 2002
Princess Alice Award (500 GBP) to travel overseas - 2002
Successful application to participate at the Summer school on "Speech production and perception" NATO ASI-meeting Il Ciocco - 1999
Graduate Scholarship EPSRC Great Britain at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
