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2010 | PhD thesis on “Bridging Inferences in Discourse Interpretation”, University of Leipzig, Examination Board: Johannes Dölling, Anita Steube, Nicholas Asher, Degree: summa cum laude |
2005-2010 | PhD studies at the Faculty of Philology, University of Leipzig |
2005 | Master degree (Magister Artium, M.A.) in Linguistics and Computer Science. Master’s thesis on “Nonmonotonic and abductive inferences in discourse context. Pragmatic inferences in the interpretation of utterances” |
1996-2005 | Studies of Linguistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics at the University of Leipzig, Germany |
1996 | Abitur (secondary school) with specialization in Russian language, Freiberg, Germany |
since 2011 | Computational linguist at OntoChem GmbH, Halle (Saale) |
2012-2014 | Project coordinator of “SARminer”, a cooperation of OntoChem GmbH and University of Leipzig, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
2011-2012 | Teaching of undergraduate course “Textlinguistik” in the module “Sprachliche Kommunikation” (linguistic communication), Department of German Studies, University of Leipzig |
2009-2010 | Teaching of graduate course “Textbedeutung” and doctoral colloquium “Semantik-Kolloquium”, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig |
2006-2012 | Assessment of M.A. and Master’s exams in Semantics, Pragmatics and Text Theory at the Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig |
2007-2008 | Research assistant at the Department of English Studies, University of Leipzig; organization of the “Third International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL/GCLA-08)”, September 2008 |
2003-2004 | Student assistant of the research group “Linguistic Foundations of Cognitive Science”; design and maintenance of the website for the international workshop “event structures 04” at the Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig |
2003 | Teaching of undergraduate courses on “Logic for Linguists” at the Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig |
1997-2004 | Production assistant, K. G. Saur Verlag (Reed Elsevier); Production of various Biographical Archives (Baltic Biographical Archive, Biographical Archive of the Soviet Union, German Biographical Archive, Korean Biographical Archive, Christian Biographical Archive) |
2012-2014 | Funded R&D project “SARminer”, project coordinator, German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
2009-2010 | Holder of a research scholarship of the state of Saxony |
2005-2007 | DFG grant for PhD studies in the postgraduate research school (Graduiertenkolleg) “Universality and Diversity. Linguistic Structures and Processes”, University of Leipzig |
2006 | Participation in the “École d’Automne de Linguistique”, École Normale Superieure, Paris, France, September 18-26, 2006. |
2005 | Participation in the “European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI)”, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 08-19, 2005. |
2000-2002 | Erasmus scholarship at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, Faculties of Philology and Mathematics. |