Education

2011: Feb.- May	Research visit to the Psycholinguistics Research Group at the University of York.
2010-now:	Postdoctoral researcher within the Cluster of Excellence on "Multimodal Computing and Interaction", Saarland University (UdS).
2006-2010:	Ph.D. within the IRTG "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems", Saarland University (UdS), supported by a scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG); Title of thesis: "Joint Attention in Spoken Human-Robot Interaction". Reviewers: Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker, Prof. Dr. Gerry Altmann.
2004 - 2006:	M.Sc. in Language Science and Technology, Saarland University (UdS), with specialisation in Computational Linguistics. Title of thesis: "Grounding Robot Gaze Production in a Cross-Modal Category System". Reviewers: Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit, Dr.ir. Geert-Jan Kruijff.
2001 - 2004:	B.Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck (UOS), with focus on Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. Title of thesis: "Modelling the Progressive and Coercion using the Event Calculus". Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger.
2003: July - Dec.	Semester abroad at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.
2001:	Abitur at Christian-Wirth-Schule, Usingen, Germany
1998 - 1999:	One year school exchange to Levin, New Zealand, with the Rotary International Youth Exchange