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About me
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1516-2224
Career
Since 2020 Director of the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas and Chair (W3) in Germanic Linguistics with a focus on regional languages at Philipps-Universität Marburg
2019–2020 Executive director of the German Department – Germanic Linguistics at the University of Freiburg
2018–2020 Chair (W3) in Germanic Linguistics with a focus on variation and change in German at the University of Freiburg and codirector of the Research Institute for Language Variation in Baden-Württemberg
2016 Visiting professor in sociolinguistics at the Walter Benjamin College at the Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS) at the University of Bern, Switzerland
2015 Visiting professor at the University of Turin, Italy
2014–2018 Adjunct professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg
2014–2015 Substitute for the Chair (W3) in German Language History at Philipps-Universität Marburg
2013 Guest lecturer at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
2012 Habilitation at Philipps-Universität Marburg, venia legendi (authorization to teach) Germanic linguistics (habilitation dissertation: “Structures on a continuum: Analyses of the areal-typological complexity of the dialects in Germany”)
2008–2018 Head of the Linguistic Spatial Structures research group, Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Marburg/Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
2007 Guest lecturer at the University of Verona, Italy
2005–2009 Coordinator of the DFG (German Research Foundation) project “Digital Wenker Atlas” (DiWA) at the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas
2003 Doctorate in German linguistics at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Doctoral dissertation: “Substandard im diachronen Längsschnitt”)
2000–2008 Student assistant, then lecturer at the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas
1994–2000 Studied German studies, Italian studies, and medieval and modern history at the universities of Heidelberg, Pisa, and Mainz
Expert opinions, reports and reviews (selection)
Grant applications and evaluations
Europäische Kommission (Horizon 2020, EU), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW), Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgien (FRS), Förderfonds der Forschungsallianz der Universitäten Gießen und Marburg (MaGiC), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
For journals and book series
Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB, De Gruyter), Beiträge zur Interkulturellen Germanistik (BIG, Gunter Narr), China Economic Review (CHIECO, Elsevier), Cogent Arts & Humanities (Taylor & Francis), Computers and the Humanities (Chum, Springer), Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH, Oxford University Press), Empirische Linguistik (EL, De Gruyter), Germanistische Linguistik (GL, Olms), Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK, De Gruyter Mouton), Journal of Linguistic Geography (JLG, John Benjamins), Labour Economics (LABECO, Elsevier), Language Resources and Evaluation (Springer), Language Variation and Change (LVC, Cambridge University Press), Linguistics (LING, De Gruyter), Linguistik in Empirie und Theorie (J. B. Metzler), Linguistik Online (LO, Universität Bern), Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC, Oxford University Press), Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch (Wachholtz), Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies (OMEE, Vilnius University Press), Papers in Regional Science (PIRS, Wiley), Phonology and Phonetics (De Gruyter Mouton), Review of Development Economics (RDE, Wiley), Slovo a Slovesnost (ÚJČ, Czech Academy of Sciences), Sprachwissenschaft (Winter), Studies in Language Variation (John Benjamins),Taal en Tongval (Amsterdam University Press), The Professional Geographer (PG, Taylor & Francis), Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs (TiLSM, De Gruyter Mouton), Veröffentlichungen zur Linguistik und Kommunikationsforschung (ÖAW-Verlag), Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik (ZDL, Steiner), Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beihefte (ZDL Beihefte, Steiner), Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik (ZGL, De Gruyter), Zeitschrift für Wortbildung (ZWJW, Lang)