- since November 2023
Vice Director of the ZAS - November 2022
Rehabilitation to Humboldt University of Berlin - October 2022
Head of Research Area 3 'Syntax & Lexicon', ZAS - Winter semester 2015/2016
Representation of the W3-Professorship of Germanistic Linguistics at the University of Leipzig - Winter semester 2010
Visiting Professorship for German Linguistics at the University of Vienna - Summer semester 2009
Representation of the W3 Professorship for German Linguistics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal - 01.11.2004
Appointment as Privatdozent at the University of Leipzig - 07/2004
Habilitation at the Philological Faculty of the University of Leipzig: "Bewegung: Restrictions and triggers"; teaching qualification: General linguistics & German linguistics - 2003 - 2008
Research associate at ZAS, Berlin; collaboration in the project: "Non-canonical Uses of Verb Second and Verb Last Sentences" - 2000 - 2002
Research associate at the University of Leipzig, collaboration in the project: "Syntax of the C domain" - 1996 - 1999
Research associate at ZAS, Berlin, collaboration in the projects: "Non-canonical Complementation" and "Focus Syntax/Language Comparison" - 1996
Doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy II of the University of Potsdam:
Dissertation on the word position in German: "Discourse Dependent DP (De-) Placement", Supervisor: Prof. G. Fanselow - 1992 - 1995
Doctoral student at the research focus General Linguistics (financed by the Max Planck Society) - 1992
University of Geneva: "Certificat de Spécialisation en Linguistique Générale"
Thèse du Certificat: "Quelques arguments en faveur d'un syntagme casuel", Supervisor: Prof. Luigi Rizzi
University of Leipzig: Magister Artium (General Linguistics / Romance Studies), Master Thesis: "The French Klitikum EN - an analysis within the framework of the Rektions- und Bindungstheorie", Supervisor: Prof. Anita Steube, also:
Minor in Russian Studies (University of Leipzig) - 1991 - 1992
Study of General Linguistics in Geneva - 1987 - 1991
Studies at the (Karl-Marx) University of Leipzig General Linguistics, Romance Studies (French Studies), Russian Studies