Prof. Dr. Uli Sauerland has a honorary adjunct professorship at the University of Potsdam since 2018. He heads the Research Area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics' and the following programs and projects:

• ERC project Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind; Generator Group
• DFG project A05 Modeling meaning-driven register variation within the framework of the CRC 1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation

The central question of Uli Sauerland's research is how people give meaning to sentences. He integrates results from language acquisition, field research and other sources to develop mathematically explicit models of this human ability. His expertise has helped to improve the diagnosis of speech disorders and the comprehensibility of medical guidelines.