Curriculum Vitae

• Place of Birth: Würzburg, Germany

• Year of Birth:  1978

• Since April 2008:

  • assistant professor at the Department of German Linguistics, LMU Munich

• April 2005 - March 2008:

  • Dr. phil. in Language Theory and Applied Linguistics, International PhD Program Linguistics "LIPP", LMU München.

  • Dissertation working title: Music and Language: prosodic features in French, German and Russian infant-directed singing.

  • Scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"

  • Lecturer at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech processing, LMU, Munich

  • Research assistant, "PROSA", Projekt Altersspezifische Sprachaneignung - ein Referenzrahmen, Coordination: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Konrad Ehlich, Prof.Dr. Ursula Bredel, Prof. Dr. Hans H. Reich

• April 1998 - July 2003:

• Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg: studies in German and French linguistics and literature, journalism
• Degree: Dipl. univ.-Germanistin

• September 2000-May 2001:

• University Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, French linguistics, comparatistics, scholarship of the ERASMUS program

• September 1988 - July 1997:

  • Abitur (A-level degree), Siebold-Gymnasium Würzburg

Organizational Work

• Workshop "Syntax – Models and Methods" held at the LMU Munich in July 2010 together with Peter Öhl, German Linguistics, and the international PhD Program LIPP of the LMU Munich
• Seminar Series "The Language of Music, the Music of Language", 1. Workshop held in July 2010 at Middlesex University, London, together with the Fabia Franco, Department of Psychology at Middlesex University and Ian Cross, Center for Music & Science, Cambridge University

Membership

• German Association for Music Psychology
• ICCLS – Interdisciplinary Centre for Cognitive Language Studies, LMU Munich
• AIRS Network – Advancing Interdisciplinary Research on Singing