Curriculum vitae
born in Aachen/Germany, 1962
Education
1991
Ph.D. in Romance Philology (University of Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany)
1988
M.A. in Romance Philogogy, Linguistics (University/Freiburg)
1983/84
Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (Université de Poitiers, France)
1981 - 1983
Romance Philology, Slavic Philology, Linguistics (University of Bonn)
Positions held
2008 -
Research position in project "Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures" financed by the DFG (German Science Foundation)
2008 -
Guest at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig)
2003 - 2008
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
2000 - 2003
Maternal leave
1998 - 2000
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
1991 - 1998
Assistant professor, Romance Philology Department, University of Bamberg (Germany)
Fieldwork
1989, 1992, 2002, 2010
Seychelles Creole, a French-based Creole of the Indian Ocean
Teaching
2010
Course at the DGfS-CNRS Summer School on Linguistic Typology ("Creole Languages in a world-wide perspective")
2006, 2008
Course at the Leipzig Spring School ("Substrates and Superstrates in Creole Languages")
1990 - 1997
Undergraduate courses taught at the universities of Freiburg and Bamberg: Creole linguistics Romance linguistics (French and Italian) Universals and typology Language change
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