Professional experience

• Research at ZAS Berlin, Head of the project "The meaning of German 'wie' in equative comparison"
• Substitute Professorship at the University of Cologne, Department of German Language and Literature I
• Research at ZAS Berlin, Head of the project "Expressing Similarity"
• Substitute Professorship (W3) at the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart
• Research and teaching at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück (semantics and pragmatics); coordination of the cognitive science doctoral program
• Research at the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Leipzig (Syntax-Semantics Interface, Focus Semantics, Intonation, Information Structure)
• Substitute Professorship at the Institute for Applied Information Science at the University of Hildesheim (Computational Linguistics, Object-Oriented Programming)
• Research at the Technical University of Berlin (Machine Translation, Language Production, Semantics, Cognitive Science)
• Industrial Software Development

• Appointment as a Professor (apl.) at the University of Cologne
• Habilitation at the Department of Linguistics and Literature of the University of Osnabrück (Information and Discourse Structure), venia legendi "General Linguistics", 2006
• Dissertation (Dr. Ing) at the Technical University of Berlin (Representation of Ambiguity, Incremental Interpretation, cf. Umbach 1996)
• Studies in Computer Science and Linguistics at the Technical University of Berlin; Diploma in Computer Science, 1989
• Professional training as an electronic technician(Facharbeiter)
• Studies at the Pedagogical College of Berlin