- Since October 2022
Director of the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) and S-Professorship for "General Linguistics" at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) - 2017 - 09/2022
Head of the Syntax & Lexicon Department, ZAS - 12/2015 - 09/2022
Vice Director, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin - 10/2015 - 09/2022
Professor of English Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - 07/2007
Visiting Professor, Stanford University, USA, LSA Summer School - 10/2002 -– 09/2015
Professor of Theoretical and English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart - 10/2001 -– 09/2002
Heisenberg Fellow (University of Pennsylvania, Potsdam University) - 01/2001 -– 09/2001
Deputy Professor at the Institute of English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart - 07/2000 -– 12/2000
Heisenberg Fellow (University of Potsdam, MIT and Princeton University) - 04/2000 -– 06/2000
Research associate at the Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam - 10/1999 -– 03/2000
Research Assistant, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin - 07/1999
Habilitation (Linguistics), University of Potsdam - 04/1999 -– 09/1999
Research Associate, Dept. of Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tübingen - 01/1995 -– 03/1999
Research associate, ZAS Berlin - 12/1994
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Potsdam - 08/1992 -– 12/1994
Ph.D. student, Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universality Research' (ZAS), Berlin - 1990 -– 1991
MA, Linguistics, University of Reading, UK - 1986 -– 1990
Philology, specialization in linguistics, University of Athens, Greece