October 2001-September 2002

Postdoctoral stay at Stanford University (Linguistics Department and Computer Science Department; sponsors: Joan Bresnan and Christopher Manning)

May 2001

Oral exam for doctoral degree (Dr. phil.), Universität Stuttgart (overall grade for dissertation and oral exam: ``with distinction'')

January 2001

Doctoral dissertation handed in (Formal and Computational Aspects of Optimality-theoretic Syntax)

November 1996

Diplom Degree in Linguistics, Universität Stuttgart (grade: ``with distinction'')

October 1995 - November 1996

Universität Stuttgart: Master-level studies in Computational Lingusitics

October 1994 - August 1995

University of Edinburgh: MSc Course in Cognitive Science and Natural Language (as a non-graduating student)

October 1991 - September 1994

Universität Stuttgart: Undergraduate studies in Computational Lingusitics

May 1990

Abitur (high school graduation/A-levels; grade: 1.0)

1981 - 1990

Gymnasium Renningen: Secondary School

1977 - 1981

Friedrich-Silcher-Schule, Renningen-Malmsheim: Primary School

since March 2005

Principal Investigator of Emmy Noether project group PTOLEMAIOS, Saarland University, Saarbrücken Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics

since January 2003

Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin [as of September 2005: adjunct faculty status]

October 2001 - September 2002

Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Department of Linguistics, Postdoctoral research project awarded by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

December 1996 - September 2001

Researcher at the Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart
Projects:
- The Parallel Grammar Development project (ParGram project; collaboration with Xerox PARC, Xerox Grenoble, and the University of Bergen)
- Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 340, project B12: Methods for extending, maintaining and optimizing a large grammar of German
- The TIGER project Linguistic Interpretation of a German corpus

November 1995 - October 1996

Student research assistant at IMS Stuttgart
Project: SFB 340, project C4: Aspects of Prosodic Structure for Discourse Representation Theory

August 1995 - October 1995

Internship at IBM Heidelberg, Institut für Logik und Linguistik
Project: Verbmobil (machine translation); work on aspects of intonation and focus

1992 - 1994

Student research assistant at IMS Stuttgart
Project: Development of HPSG grammars with the Typed Feature Structures System (TFS)

July 1990 - September 1991

Community service at the Karl-Olga-Krankenhaus (Hospital), Stuttgart

 Teaching

September 19-30, 2005, DGfS-CL Fall school, Bochum, Germany

Machine Translation -- Classical and Statistical Approaches

Fall 2004, UT Austin

LIN 386M.3 -- Computational Linguistics II (graduate course, unique ID: 39840)

Fall 2004, UT Austin

LIN 350 -- Introduction to Computational Linguistics (undergraduate course, unique ID: 39705)

Spring 2004, UT Austin

LIN 386M.2 -- Computational Linguistics I (graduate course, unique ID: 37255)

Spring 2004, UT Austin

LIN 386M -- Machine Translation (graduate seminar, unique ID: 37250)

Fall 2003, UT Austin

LIN 386M.3 -- Computational Linguistics II (graduate course, unique ID: 38080)

Fall 2003, UT Austin

LIN 350 -- Introduction to Computational Linguistics (undergraduate course, unique ID: 37965)

Spring 2003, UT Austin

LIN 386M.2 -- Computational Linguistics I (graduate course, unique ID: 37260)

September 2001, 1st Fall School of Computational Linguistics Section of the German Linguistics Society, Konstanz

Grammar Development in constraint-based formalisms: HPSG and LFG (with Stefan Müller) -- online course material

June 7-9, 2001, Oslo

Language and Optimality (with Reinhard Blutner)

Wintersemester 2000/2001, IMS Stuttgart

Algorithmische Syntax, Hauptseminar (with Stefanie Dipper)

Wintersemester 1999/2000, IMS Stuttgart

Algorithmische Syntax, Hauptseminar (with Christian Rohrer and Norbert Bröker)

August 1999, ESSLLI 1999 Summerschool, Utrecht

Development of large scale LFG grammars: Linguistics, Engineering and Resources (with Miriam Butt and Anette Frank, Grenoble) -- online course material

Wintersemester 1998/1999, IMS Stuttgart

Algorithmische Syntax, Hauptseminar (with Christian Rohrer and Norbert Bröker)

Wintersemester 1997/1998, IMS Stuttgart

Syntax II -- LFG und HPSG, Proseminar (with Christian Rohrer)

Sommersemester 1997, IMS Stuttgart

Entwicklung großer Grammatiken -- Aspekte des Grammar Engineering, Seminar (with Christian Rohrer)

Sommersemester 1993, IMS Stuttgart

Tutor for Syntax II (HPSG)

 Other professional activities

2005-

Referee for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Science Foundation)

2004-

Referee for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

2004-

Consultant for an IT company

2003-

Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Semantics

2003-2005

Consultant for the project Linguistic research on text interpretation, led by Carlota Smith, Linguistics Dept., UT Austin

2001-2004

Member of the Program Committee of the LFG Conference (2001-2002 with Rachel Nordlinger, 2002-2004 with Tara Mohanan)

1999-

Reviewer for the journal Computational Linguistics, the Journal of Semantics, CSLI Publications, the ACL conference, the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique de Paris, the Formal Grammar conference, and other conferences/workshops

1999

Chair of the programme committee for the student sessions at EACL'99, Bergen (with Atro Voutilainen as the faculty co-chair)

1996

Member of the organization committee for Tagung für Computerlinguistik-Studenten (TaCoS '96), Universität Stuttgart

 Awards, scholarships, and funded projects

2005

Academic offer ("Ruf") of the position of a full professor (W3) of Theoretical Computational Linguistics at Potsdam University, Germany

2004

Emmy Noether project grant awarded by DFG (German Science Foundation): 4-year funding of a research group

2003 - 2004

Instructional technology grant by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin

2001 - 2002

Postdoctoral research scholarship, awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), for a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University

1991 - 1996

Scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

1993

First prize (category combo) in the music competition Jugend jazzt, Baden-Württemberg; as band leader, composer/arranger and saxophone player with the 12 piece ensemble Some More of That Jazz

1989

Prize winner in the classics competition Schülerwettbewerb ``Alte Sprachen'', Baden-Württemberg

1988

Finalist in the classics competition Schülerwettbewerb ``Alte Sprachen'', Baden-Württemberg