Education/Qualifications
1996 | Freie Universität Berlin Habilitation (General and comparative linguistics) |
1990-1993 | Freie Universität Berlin Ph.D. in Linguistics (Ekkehard König, principal advisor) |
1989-1990 | Moscow State University Postgraduate Research Fellowship of German Academic Exchange Service |
1988-1989 | Universität zu Köln M.A. in Slavic Studies, Linguistics, Indo-European Studies |
1987-1988 | State University of New York at Buffalo M.A. in Linguistics |
1985-1987 | Universität zu Köln Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Slavic Studies |
1983-1985 | Universität Wien Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Slavic Studies |
Positions held
1998-present | Member of scientific staff, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig |
1997-98 | Visiting scholar at the Università di Pavia |
1995 | Instructor, Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July-August |
1994-1996 | Scientific Assistant (roughly, Assistant Professor), Department of English, Free University of Berlin |
1990-1994 | Program Assistant of the European Science Foundation Program in Language Typology (Director: Ekkehard König, Freie Universität Berlin) |
Grants and Awards
2007 | Academy Prize of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences |
1997-98 | Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
1989 | German Academic Exchange Service Postgraduate Fellowship for research at Moscow State University |
1983-1989 | Evangelisches Studienwerk fellowship for specially talented university students |