CV
| Since 03/2021 | Permanent Visiting Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, PR China |
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Since 03/2021 03/2016-03/2020 |
Member of the Executive Board of the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies, 04/2018-03/2019 & 04/2023-03/2024 Managing Director |
| 04/2017-03/2019 |
Vice Dean of the Department of History and Social Sciences Chairman of the doctoral committee |
| 03/2017, 05/2018, 09/2019 | Visiting professorships at Tongji University Shanghai / PR China |
| Since 03/2016 | Professor of German Studies – Digital Linguistics at TU Darmstadt |
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04/2015- 02/2016 |
Deputy professor of German Linguistics – Corpus and Computational Linguistics at TU Darmstadt |
| Summer Semester 2014 | Deputy professor of German Linguistics in the Department of German Studies I at the University of Düsseldorf |
| July 2014 | Habilitation; Venia Legendi for Germanic Linguistics |
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10/2013- 02/2016 |
Academic Assistant at the Department of German Studies, Heidelberg University |
| 09/2013 | Guest lecturer at the Beijing Foreign Studies University / PR China |
| 04/2011 – 03/2012 | Deputy Professor for German Language Didactics at the Institute for German Studies and Comparative Literature of the University of Paderborn |
| 05/2010 | DAAD guest lecturer at Westminster International University Tashkent / Uzbekistan |
| 10/2009 | Guest lecturer at Eötvös-Loránd University Budapest / Hungary |
| 10/2006 – 09/2013 | Lecturer at the Department of German Studies, University of Heidelberg, |
| July 12,.2006 | Doctoral degree at the Faculty of Modern Philology, University of Heidelberg |
| 10/2004 – 03/2005 | Lecturer in Linguistics and Communication Science at the Department of German Studies of the University of Gießen (LfbA) |
| 04/2003 – 09/2010 | Teaching assignments at the University of Heidelberg (German Studies Seminar and School for Logopedics) and the Heidelberg University of Education |
| 08/2001 – 06/2005 | Work on the “Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch” (Early New High German Dictionary), German Department of the University of Heidelberg |
| 04/1994 – 07/2001 | Studies of German Philology, Romance Philology, and European Art History at the Universities of Heidelberg and Granada. |
Functions
| Managing Director of the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies |
| Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Strategic Partnership with Tongji University Shanghai |
| Head of the interdisciplinary Master's programme Data and Discourse Studies |
| Founder and Director of the Discourse Lab |
| Member of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “EU in Global Dialogue” (CEDI) |
| Member of the Executive Board of the Digital Humanities Cooperation |
| Member of the Advisory Boards of Netzpolitik AG Heidelberg, book series Diskursmuster – Discourse Patterns (DDP), KorDaF journalBook series Digitalis Purpurea (Federico II University Press Napoli), Working Papers in Digital Philology (TUprints); DAAD selection committee for lecturers and teaching assistants in Eastern Europe; PhD Studies Committee of the School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. |
| Associate member of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) |
| Founder and speaker of the German-Chinese graduate network Sprachkulturen – Fachkulturen, together with Prof. Jia Wenjian (Beijing Foreing Studies University), funded by the University of Heidelberg in the Mobility Program of the Excellence Initiative II |
| Member of the Board of Trustees of the Landeswettbewerbs Deutsche Sprache und Literatur Baden-Württemberg |
| Founder and coordinator of the Graduate Platform of the Research Network Language and Knowledge (Graduiertenplattform des Forschungsnetzwerks Sprache und Wissen) |
| Head of the Knowledge Domain Art – Art Business – Art History in the Research Network Language and Knowledge, with Prof. A. Gardt (Kassel) and Prof. H. Hausendorf (Zurich) |
| Reviewing (selection): : DAAD, DFG, De Gruyter, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Fachsprache (Journal), Korpora DaF (Journal), Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Research Foundation Flanders, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Palgrave Macmillan, Schweizer Nationalfonds, Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung |
