- 08/2019 - 09/2019
Research stay at the UniTech Institute of Technology; Auckland, NZ - since 2017
Senior researcher in the Research Area 1 'Laboratory Phonology', ZAS, Berlin - 07/2014 - 03/2017
Research stay at the University of Kent, UK - 2007
Habilitation in General Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - from 2000
Research Assistant at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin - 5.07.1999
Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in German linguistics ("summa cum laude") - 06/1997 - 08/1997
Studies and research stay at Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts (DFG scholarship) - 1996 - 1999
Research Training Group 'Economy and Complexity in Language'. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Potsdam - 1995
M.A. in German linguistics, Italian linguistics and DaF - 1990 - 1995
Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (German linguistics, Italian linguistics, German as a foreign language) - 1993 - 1994
Studies at the Università degli Studi di Pisa (scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service)