* 04.01.1973 in Hanau, Germany Nationality: German
work address: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Postbus 310, NL-6500 AH Nijmegen
home address: Kronenburgersingel 213a, NL-6511 AR Nijmegen

1998 - 2003 University of Maastricht

• Ph.D. student at the University of Maastricht, Faculty of Psychology, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Ph.D. Thesis "Understanding 'gardem bench': Studies on the perception of assimilated words forms" (cum laude)

1993 - 1998 University of Bielefeld & University of Leiden

• Master in Psychology, majored in "Experimental Psychology"
• Master Thesis: "Investigations of the Stroop-dilution effect" with Prof. Dr. Neumann (Bielefeld) and Prof. Dr. van der Heijden (Leiden)

1985 - 1992 Hohe Landesschule, Hanau, Germany

• Abitur (grammar school)

2003 -       Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

• indendent scientific research
• Supervision of Masters- and Ph.D. Students

1998 - 2003 University of Maastricht

• 80% Ph.D. student
• 20% junior lecturer

1992 - 1993 City of Bruchköbel, Germany

• Civil service (care for the severely handicapped)

The Invariance Problem in Speech Perception

• Recognition of phonological variant forms arising from assimilation, reduction, and deletion
• Compensation for physical and socio-linguistic speaker differences through auditory processes and perceptual learning
• The MisMatch Negativity as a tool for speech-perception research

Mechanism of Language Processing

• The relation of speech processing to other perceptual processes in hearing & vision
• Speech production and perception in dialogue
• Speech as a cultural artifact
• phonological representations in normal L1 and L2 processing as well as in impaired (i.e., dyslexic) processing

Eduction in Teaching

• Training at the University of Maastricht (with certificate in "Problem-based Learning")

Undergraduate level

• Teaching in Statistics and Research Methods, Cognitive Psychology, and Psycholinguistics
• Lectures on auditory and speech perception
• Supervision of undergraduate interns

Graduate level

• Supervision of Master and Ph.D. Students
• Teaching in Programming

• 2009-2012 Grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council, DFG) in the framework of the priority program 1234 "Phonological and phonetic competence", Project: "Adapting to phonological reduction" (3 years)
• 2006-2009 Grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council, DFG) in the framework of the priority program 1234 "Phonological and phonetic competence", Project: "The functional phonology of reduced forms" (3 years)
• 2000 Travel grant awarded by the 2nd International Congress on MisMatch Negativity and its Clinical Applications
• 1997-1998 Study abroad grant from the Westfälisch-Lippischen Universitätsgesellschaft, Bielefeld, to study in Leiden, the Netherlands

Languages

• German (native)
• English (near-native)
• Dutch (near-native)
• Latin

Methods

• EEG data-acquisition and -analysis with MatLab, NeuroScan, or BrainVision
• Own toolbox for eye-movement analysis (written in PERL)
• Auditory signal analysis and manipulation for the speech signal
• Advanced Statistics (using R) and Linear Algebra

• 13.09.2010. Colloquium LMU München, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung: "Shadowing, phonetic imitation, and the role of articulatory gestures in speech perception".
• 08.03.2010. Bristol University, UK: Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Perception in Adverse Conditions: "Perception of phonologically reduced variants in conversational speech".
• 16.04.2010. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Workshop on Using Eye-tracking in Linguistics and Cognitive Science: "Eye-tracking reveals how we deal with phonological variants" & "Data collection and analysis in the visual world paradigm".
• 08.10.2009. Emory University, Atlanta, GA: " Knowledge-guided perceptual learning in speech: theoretical and practical implications".
• 02.02.2009. Colloquium LMU München, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung: " How speech is special, ... and not".
• 18.11.2008. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Colloquium Psychology & Linguistics: "Context effects on different processing levels in the perception of speech".
• 30.10.2008. Universiteit Leiden, Colloquium Language & Communication: "How speech is special, ... and not".
• 15.06.2008. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The First Nijmegen Speech Reduction Workshop: Disappearing sound: "Different processing mechanisms for apparently similar reductions" (with Mirjam Ernestus and James McQueen).
• 26.05.2008. RWTH Aachen, Colloquium Psychologie: "How speech is special, ... and not".
• 08.02.2007. Universität Stuttgart, Colloquium am Institut für maschinelle Sprachverabeitung: "Context effects on different processing levels in the perception of speech".
• 25.10.2006. Universiteit Leiden, Colloquium Psychologie: "Challenges of connected-speech processing: The case of word-final /t/".

Reviewing

- Psychology

• Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
• Cognition
• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
• Journal of Memory and Language
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
• Developmental Science

- Linguistics

• Journal of Phonetics
• Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
• Phonology
• Speech Communication

- Cognitive Neuroscience

• Brain Research
• Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
• Psychophysiology

- Grant Agencies

• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)

Workshop & Conference Organization

• Phonetics & Phonology 4 Meeting, October 2007, Nijmegen
• 2nd meeting of the DFG Priority Program SPP1234 "Phonetic and phonological competence", October 2007, Nijmegen
• 11th Winter conference of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie (Dutch Psychonomic Association), December 2007, Egmond aan Zee
• 12th Winter conference of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour, December 209, Egmond aan Zee
• 13th Winter conference of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour, December 2011, Egmond aan Zee

Editor

• 2006 Annual Report of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Treasurer

• of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie (Dutch Psychonomic Association)

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