CV

2014-2022:	Principal Investigator in the Collaborative Research Center (CRC/SFB 1102) "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (project A5).
2013-2019:	Independent Research Group Leader in the Cluster of Excellence on "Multimodal Computing and Interaction", Saarland University (UdS).
2012:	Visiting researcher at SUNY Stony Brook.
2011: Feb.- May	Visiting researcher at the Psycholinguistics Research Group at the University of York.
2010-2012:	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". Advisor: Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker.
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". Advisor: 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". Advisor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger.