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Current Position
Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam
Employment
| 11/2023- | Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam |
| 09/2019-10/2023 | Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania (tenured 07/2022-) |
| 04/2015- | Heisenberg fellow: 09/2016-: Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig 09/2015-08/2016: Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure, Paris 04/2015-08/2015: Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig |
| 04/2019-08/2019 | Substitute Professor, German Department, University of Potsdam |
| 04/2017-09/2017 | Substitute Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam |
| 10/2011-03/2015 | Researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig |
| 02/2010-09/2011 | Researcher (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”), University of Zurich |
| 02/2008-01/2010 | Researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz |
| 01/2007-10/2007 | Researcher (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”), School of Teacher Education, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) |
| 08/2006-01/2008 | Lecturer (“Oberassistent”), German Department, University of Zurich |
| 04/2003-06/2006 | Researcher/PhD student (“AiO”), LUCL, University of Leiden |
| 04/2002-03/2003 | Researcher/PhD student (“AiO”), Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC), University of Amsterdam |
Education
| 02/2019 | Qualification (N° 19107329914), Professeur des universités (France). Section 7: Sciences du langage, Conseil national des universités (CNU) |
| 05/2013 | Habilitation, University of Zurich. Thesis title: The importance of dialectal structures for linguistic theory. Case studies in Swiss German syntax. Committee: Wolfgang Behr, Christa Dürscheid, Elvira Glaser, Michael Hess, Elisabeth Stark (external reviewer: Gereon Müller) |
| 10/2006 | PhD in Linguistics, University of Leiden. Thesis title: Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in indirect A’-dependencies.Advisors: Lisa Cheng and Johan Rooryck. External reviewers: Josef Bayer, Aniko Liptak, Henk van Riemsdijk. Additional members of the dissertation committe: Chris Reintges, Mark de Vries, Fred Weerman |
| 12/2001 | MA in General, German and African Linguistics. Thesis title: Theoretical Approaches to Locative Inversion. Advisor: Peter Gallmann |
| 09/1996-12/2001 | General, German and African Linguistics and Latin Philology, University of Zürich and University of Cologne |