From October 2007 on
Staff scientist at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
2000-2006
Staff scientist at the Institut für Psycholinguistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
1995-2000
Lecturer at the Institut für Phonetik und sprachliche
Kommunikation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Besides, 1997 and 1998 lecturer at the Institute of Primary School
Didactics.
2000-2003
consulting the Ministry of Women, Family, Senior Citizens and Youth
(BMFSFJ) and developing concepts for the Ministry in the context of
developing strategies of alphabetization aimed at the prevention of
poverty.
1998-1999
as delegate of the sciences collaborator in the project
Netzwerk Grundqualifikation(network basic qualification) which is carried out by the German Institute for Adult Education (Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung, DIE), commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Education (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, BMBF).
1996-2000
development, implementation, and documentation of a remedial education
project for young illiterate adults; a cooperation of the Munich Adult
Education Centre, the City of Munich, and the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (
Gilgamesch-Projekt).
In 1999 the
project was awarded a prize by the Federal Ministry of Women, Family,
Senior Citizens and Youth (Bundesministerium für Frauen, Senioren,
Familie und Jugend, BMFSFJ).
1995
Ph. D. in psycholinguistics with a dissertation on metaphors
(Sprachspiel Metapher. Denkweisen und kommunikative Funktion einer rhetorischen Figur).
1989
Magister Artium (Master of Arts) in psycholinguistics (Thesis: Die
Bedeutung der sprachlichen Vagheit – The Meaning of Linguistic
Vagueness).
1981-1995
studies of psycholinguistics, philosophy, phonetics, and pedagogy of
speech impaired children at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München.
1967-1981 school education in Genève (CH); Erlangen and München (D), Abitur 1981.
