Education and Professional Development
| Since 2014 | Professor of German Linguistics at the Seminar für deutsche Philologie (en. Department of German Philology) at the University of Mannheim. |
| 2018–2021 | Prorector for Studies, Teaching and Gender Equality at the University of Mannheim. |
| Since 2009 | Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) (en. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities). |
| 2002–2014 | Professor for German linguistics and Language Didactics at the Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur (en. Institute for German Language and Literature) at the TU Dortmund University. |
| 1993-2002 | Researcher in the department of Grammar at the Institut für deutsche Sprache (IDS) (en. Institute for the German Language) in Mannheim. |
| 1992-93 | Post-doc Researcher at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft (Abteilung Computerlinguistik) (en. Department of Linguistics, section Computational Linguistics) at the Universität Tübingen. |
| 1990-91 | Research fellowship at the Institut für wissensbasierte Systeme der IBM Deutschland (en. Institute for knowledge-based systems of the IBM Germany) in Heidelberg. |
| 1984-90 | Freelancer at the wissenschaftliches Zentrum der IBM Deutschland (en. Scientific Centre of IBM Germany) in Heidelberg. |
| 1991 | Dr. phil (summa cum laude), Universität Heidelberg. Topic of Doctoral Dissertation: Verbvalenz. Theoretische und methodische Grundlagen ihrer Beschreibung in Grammatikographie und Lexikographie (en. Verb-Valency. Theoretical and methodological principles of their descriptions within grammaticography and lexicography). |
| 1980-91 | Student of German and Romance Studies at the University of Heidelberg. |
| 1978-80 | Student at the Institut für Dolmetschen und Übersetzen IÜD (en. Institute for Translation and Interpreting) at the University of Heidelberg. |