CV
I am currently working as Professor of Phonetics in the Institute for German Linguistics at the University of Marburg, Germany
Education
2016 |
Habilitation in Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany Thesis title: Representational units at the interface of linguistics and cognitive neuroscience. |
2007 |
Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany; with distinction "summa cum laude" Thesis title: The representations of vocalic features in vowel alternations: Phonological, morphological and computational aspects. Principal supervisor: Prof. Aditi Lahiri |
2003 |
M.A. Linguistics, German Literature, Arts- and Media Sciences, University of Konstanz Thesis title: Dual difficulties? Lexical access and German irregular verbs within a Featurally Underspecified Lexicon Supervisors: Prof. Aditi Lahiri, Prof. Henning Reetz |
2001 |
B. A. Honours Linguistics & German Literature, Canterbury University, Christchurch (New Zealand) with distinction “first class” Thesis title: Configured location: The relevance of “surface” and “container” for the Locative Alternation Supervisors: Prof. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Dr. Kate Kearns |
Previous professional positions
10/2015—03/2017 |
Research Group Leader; Department of Language and Literature, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt (Germany) Research focus: Regularities of spectral and temporal characteristics of aesthetic speech |
07/2014—09/2015 |
Researcher; BioCog (Cognitive incl. Biological Psychology), Department of Psychology, University of Leipzig (Germany) Research focus: Global and local aspects of temporal and lexical predictions for speech processing DFG Project 'Eigene Stelle' |
01/2014—06/2014 |
Researcher; Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt (Germany) Research focus: Cognitive and neuronal indices of aesthetic aspects during spoken language processing Department of Language and Literature Prof. W. Menninghaus, Director |
2011—2013 |
Post-Doc/Research Scholar; Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig (Germany) Research focus: Cognitive and neuronal consequences of listening under adverse conditions; formation of auditory categories; levels of predictions in auditory processing Research Group Auditory Cognition Dr. Jonas Obleser, Group Leader |
2009—2011 |
Post-Doc/Research Scholar; Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park (USA) Research focus: MEG investigations of speech perception, time course of lexical access with features, mismatch fields, dipole localizations, dialect perception Principal Investigators: Prof. William Idsardi, Prof. David Poeppel |
2007—2008 |
Post-Doc/Research Scholar; Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz (Germany) Research focus: Morphological processing, lexical access, ERP investigations of fragment priming Principal Investigators: Prof. Aditi Lahiri Prof. Carsten Eulitz within the SFB 471, an umbrella grant funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), project D-1: On resolving lexical and post-lexical variations in language comprehension: The role of the mental lexicon. |
2003—2006 |
Ph.D. student/Research Assistant; Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz (Germany) Research focus: Representation and processing of alternating vowels, dialectal variation and cross-dialectal processing, ERP and behavioural investigations of lexical access, Phonetics-Phonology interface Principal Investigators: Prof. Aditi Lahiri; Prof. Carsten Eulitz; Prof. Henning Reetz within the SFB 471, an umbrella grant funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), project D-1: On resolving lexical and post-lexical variations in language comprehension: The role of the mental lexicon. |