Curriculum Vitae

Career and Education:

since 2009	Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany) Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
2006-2009	Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany) and University of Manchester, UK Dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Tanya Behne, Prof. Elena Lieven and Prof. M. Tomasello: “The cognitive and motivational bases of young children’s communication – The case of directives”
1998-2006	University of Leipzig (Germany) Diploma thesis at the Institute of Applied Linguistics and Translatology under the supervision of Prof. Gerd Wotjak: “Cultural competence for translators”
1994-1998	Spezialschulteil des Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasiums, Jena, Germany Highschool, Special training in Mathematics, Technology and Natural Sciences

 

Additionals:

Sept 2009	International Summer School in Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind “The Social Self”, Alghero, Italy
April 2009	Co-organization of Workshop on Pragmatic Development, Lyon, France
July 2007	International Summer School on “Culture and Cognition” at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
2004 - 2006	Additional studies, Department of Psychology, University of Leipzig (General Psychology, Methodology, and Cognition)
2002/03	Term Abroad, Institute for Applied Languages, Dublin City University, Ireland, (Psycholinguistics, Formal language theory and Theory of computation)
2001/02	Year Abroad, Department of Philology at National University of Córdoba, Argentina (Research project in Phraseology, Language and culture Studies and Theory of language for special purposes)

 

Grants:

2009	Euro XPrag Collaboration funded by the ESF
2009-2011	Max Planck Institute, 2-year PostDoc Scholarship
2009	Thyssen Foundation, Funding for Workshop on Pragmatic Development, Lyon
2006- 2009	Max Planck Institute, 3-year PhD Scholarship
2000	German Acadamic Exchange Service, Scholarship for year abroad in Córdoba/Argentina