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Personal Information

• Born: October 10, 1969 in Münster (Germany)
• Marital status:
  married (to Kuno Stopper)
  three children (David: July 2001; Simon: May 2003; Elisabeth: February 2007)
• Citizenship: German

Education

• Cognitive Science at the University of Hamburg
  (November 1994 - September 1999)
• Computer Science at the University of Technology, Berlin
  (April 1991 - February 1997)
• Psychology at the University of Technology, Berlin
  (April 1989 - October 1994)

Degrees

• Habilitation in Psychology, 2007; Berlin University of Technology
• Ph.D. in Psychology, 1999, Grade: summa cum laude; Berlin University of Technology / Doctoral Program in Cognitive Science of Hamburg University
• Diplom in Psychology, 1994, Grade: 1.0; Berlin University of Technology
  (M.A. equivalent)
• Vordiplom in Psychology, 1991; Grade: 1.0; Berlin University of Technology (B.A. equivalent)

Professional Experience

• Head of the Research Group on the Psycholinguistics of Negation, Department of Psychology, Berlin University of Technology
  (since January 2003)
• Visiting Assistant, Department of Psychology (Prof. D. Foss), Florida State University (October 1999 - July 2002)
• Lecturer at the Institute of Knowledge Representation and Language Processing, Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
  (July 1996 - September 1999)
• Research Associate, Research Project `Nonverbal Cognition and Text Comprehension', University of Hamburg, Directors: Prof. C. Habel & Prof. S. Kelter
  (November 1994 - June 1995)
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, Berlin University of Technology (Cognitive Psychology, Prof. K. Eyferth)
  (April 1991 - October 1994)

Scholarships

• German Research Foundation: Doctoral Program in Cognitive Science, University of Hamburg (1994 - 1999)
• German Merit Foundation [Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes] (1992 - 1994)

Grants

• January 2003 - February 2005
  German Research Foundation: "Zur Psycholinguistik von Negation"
  Ka 1237-1/1 (English Translation of Title: 'The psycholinguistics of negation')
• February 2005 - April 2007
  German Research Foundation: "Zur Psycholinguistik von Negation"
  Ka 1237-1/2 (English Translation of Title: 'The psycholinguistics of negation')
• April 2007 - June 2009
  German Research Foundation: "Zur Psycholinguistik von Negation"
  Ka 1237-1/3 (English Translation of Title: 'The psycholinguistics of negation')
  
  [together approximately 650.000 EUR]

Awards

• Best-Paper Award, International Workshop "Constraints in Discourse", University of Dortmund (3. Place; 2005).

Societies

• American Psychological Society
• American Psychological Association (Associated Member)
• Cognitive Science Society
• Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft

Reviewing

• Journals
  Cognitive Linguistics; Discourse Processes, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Memory and Language; Kognitionswissenschaft; Journal of Pragmatics; Learning and Instruktion; Experimental Psychology; Language and Cognitive Processes; Memory & Cognition; Patient Education and Counselling.
• Conferences
  12th Annual Winter Conference on Text, Discourse, & Cognition; 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, International Conference Spatial Cognition 2004.
• Grant Proposals
  Grant Proposals submitted to the German Research Foundation.
• Textbooks
  Psychology Press.
• Assessment Seminars
  German National Academic Foundation.