Education and professional experience
- 12/2015 -
Vice Director, ZAS - 10/2015 -
Professor of English Linguistics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin - 07/2007
Visiting Professor, Stanford University, USA, LSA Summer School - 10/02-09/15
Professor of Theoretical and English Linguistics, Universität Stuttgart - 10/01-09/02
Heisenberg Fellow (University of Pennsylvania, Universität Potsdam) - 1/01-09/01
Replacement of the Dept. Chair at the Institute of English Linguistics, Universität Stuttgart - 7/00-12/00
Heisenberg Fellow (Universität Potsdam, MIT and Princeton University) - 04/00-06/00
Research associate at the Dept. of Linguistics, Universität Potsdam - 10/99-3/00
Managing Director of ZAS - 07/1999
Habilitation (Linguistics), Universität Potsdam - 4/99-9/99
Research associate, Dept. of Theoretical Linguistics, Universität Tübingen - 1/95-3/99
Research associate at ZAS - 12/1994
Ph.D., Linguistics, Universität Potsdam - 08/92-12/94
Ph.D. student at the Center for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals ('Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung' (ZAS)) Berlin - 1990-1991
MA, Linguistics, University of Reading, UK - 1986-1990
Philology, specialization in Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece
Awards
- 03/2016
Degree of doctor honoris causa at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim - 11/2014
Member of the Leopoldina, National Academy of Sciences - 03/2014
DFG AL 554/8-1 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize - 11-12/2000
Stanley J. Seeger Research Fellowship from Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
