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born in Hoya/Germany, 1963

Education/qualifications:

1996	Freie Universität Berlin Habilitation (General and comparative linguistics)
1990-1993	Freie Universität Berlin Ph.D. in Linguistics (Ekkehard König, principal advisor)
1989-1990	Moscow State University Postgraduate Research Fellowship of German Academic Exchange Service
1988-1989	Universität zu Köln M.A. in Slavic Studies, Linguistics, Indo-European Studies
1987-1988	State University of New York at Buffalo M.A. in Linguistics
1985-1987	Universität zu Köln Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Slavic Studies
1983-1985	Universität Wien Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Slavic Studies

Positions held:

1998-	Member of scientific staff, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig
1997-98	Visiting scholar at the Università di Pavia
1995	Instructor, Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July-August
1994-1996	Scientific Assistant (roughly, Assistant Professor), Department of English, Free University of Berlin
1990-1994	Program Assistant of the European Science Foundation Program in Language Typology (Director: Ekkehard König, Freie Universität Berlin)

Grants and Awards:

1997-98	Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1989	German Academic Exchange Service Postgraduate Fellowship for research at Moscow State University
1983 - 1989	Evangelisches Studienwerk fellowship for specially talented university students

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology - Department of Linguistics