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Martin Thiering
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Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
MARTIN THIERING
PhD
| Education and Professional Experience | ||
| Oktober 2020–Februar 2021 | Gastdozent [Q] Studies, HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU) | |
| April 2020-Juli 2020 | Gastdozent Akademie Mode Design (AMD) Hamburg | |
| seit WS 2019 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter. RWTH Aachen, Fachbereich Linguistik und Kognitive Semiotik | |
| 2016 | Visiting Fellow, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome, Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky (Director), Project: Representation and mapping of grid and vectorial maps with focus on cognitive maps | |
| January–September 2015 | Fellow, Excellence Cluster Bild Wissen Gestaltung. Ein interdisziplinäres Labor, Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Trabant | |
| Since February 2015 | Privatdozent (Adjunct Professor) Technical University Berlin, Department of Linguistics | |
| June 2014 | Habilitation treatise (venia legendi Cognitive Linguistics). Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics | |
| Since 2012 | Coordinator TOPOI Excellence Cluster 264, Area C-5-1: “Common Sense Geography and Mental Modelling”, Free University Berlin, Prof. Dr. Klaus Geus | |
| Since 2011 | Lecturer at the Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics | |
| Since 2009 | Lecturer at the Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I | |
| January–May 2014 | Research Fellow Kolleg-Forschergruppe “Bildakt und Verkörperung”, Humboldt University Berlin, Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Trabant | |
| October 2013 | Submission of habilitation treatise at the Berlin Technical University, Institute for Language and Communication, Department of General Linguistics Title: Spatial Semiotics and Spatial Mental Models: Figure-Ground Asymmetries in Spatial Language and Cognition | |
| May–July 2013 | Senior Fellow TOPOI Excellence Cluster 264, Area C-5-1: “Common Sense Geography and Mental Modelling”, Free University Berlin, Prof. Dr. Klaus Geus | |
| September 2008–October 2012 | Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and Research Scholar at the Humboldt University Berlin, TOPOI Excellence Cluster 264, Research Group E-II: “Historical Epistemology of Space: The Interrelation of Experience and Theoretical Reflection in the Historical Development of Spatial Thinking”, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn and Dr. Matthias Schemmel | |
| 2006–2007 | Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate of Prof. Dr. Ray Jackendoff and Prof. Dr. Dan Dennett, Tufts University, USA, Center for Cognitive Studies | |
| 2001–2007 | PhD in Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada; defense passed January 12, 2007; doctoral candidacy completed October, 2004 Title of PhD thesis: The Construction of Topological Space | |
| 1999 | Semester abroad at the University of Bergen, Norway, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Linguistics and Language Institute Bergen | |
| 1994–2001 | Double Major (Magister Artium) in Applied Linguistics and Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of Hamburg, Germany Title of MA thesis: Das mentale Lexikon in der L2-Sprachproduktion (The Mental Lexicon in L2 Speech Production) | |
| Awards and Assistantships | ||
| 2014 | Research Fellow Kolleg-Forschergruppe “Bildakt und Verkörperung”. Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Trabant | |
| 2013 | Research Fellow TOPOI Excellence Cluster 264, Area C-5-1: “Common Sense Geography and Mental Modelling”, Free University Berlin, Prof. Dr. Klaus Geus | |
| 2006–2007 | Postdoctoral scholarship, Tufts University, USA, Center for Cognitive Studies | |
| 2001–2006 | Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Sally Rice for the “Daghida Project: Language Research and Revitalization in a First Nations Community”, a SSHRC-funded Community-University Research Alliance Grant, University of Alberta, Canada | |
| 2001–2003 | Teaching Assistant (Introductory Course Linguistics). Linguistics Department, University of Alberta | |
| 2004–2005 | Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award, University of Alberta | |
| 2001–2006 | Five-year graduate assistantship/scholarship, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta | |
| 2001–2002 | DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) PhD scholarship, University of Alberta, Department of Linguistics | |
| 1999 | DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship/student assistantship, University of Bergen, Norway, Department of German language and literature | |
| Teaching experience | ||
| 2017 | Einführung in die Kognitive Semantik (Introduction to Cognitive Semantics). Seminar, Allgemeine Linguistik, Technische Universität Berlin. Seminar, Allgemeine Linguistik, Technische Universität Berlin. | |
| 2016/17 | Raumpraktiken: Kategorisierungsprozesse in Sprache und Denken.(Practices of Space: Categorization Processes in Language and Thinking). Seminar, Allgemeine Linguistik, Technische Universität Berlin. | |
| 2016 | Einführung in Raumtheorien: Philosophische und kognitionspsychologische Perspektiven (Introduction to Theories of Space: Philosophical and Cognitive Psychological Perspectives). Hafencity Universität Hamburg. | |
| 2016 | Introduction to Linguistic Relativity. Freiburg University College. | |
| 2016 | Einführung in die Phänomenologie des Raumes (Introduction to the Phenomenology of Space). Seminar, Philosophie I, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, together with Dr. Johan Blomberg. | |
| 2016 | Einführung in die Raumlinguistik (Introduction to Spatial Linguistics), together with Dr. Johan Blomberg. | |
| 2015/2016 | Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung (Phenomenology of Perception). Hauptseminar, Philosophie I, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. | |
| 2015/2016 | Kognitive Karten (Cognitive Maps). Seminar, Allgemeine Linguistik, Technische Universität Berlin. | |
| 2015 | Mentale Modelle der Wissensrepräsentation. Hauptseminar, Philosophie I, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. | |
| 2015 | Kognitive Grammatik. Seminar, Allgemeine Linguistik, Technische Universität Berlin. | |
| 2014/15 | Sprachliche Relativität (Linguistic Relativity). Seminar, Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics | |
| 2014 | Sprache und Kognition (Language and Cognition). Seminar, Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics | |
| 2014 | Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations). Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I, together with Sebastian Seidler | |
| 2013/2014 | Grammatologie (Of Grammatology). Advanced seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I, together with Sebastian Seidler | |
| 2013/2014 | Kognitive Linguistik und Phänomenologie (Cognitive Linguistics and Phenomenology). Seminar, Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics | |
| 2013/2014 | Mentale Modelle. (Mental Models). Seminar, Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics | |
| 2013 | Referenzrahmen (Frames of Reference). Advanced Seminar, Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics | |
| 2013 | Phänomenologie und Kognition (Phenomenology and Cognition). Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I | |
| 2012/2013 | Raumkognition/Raumsemantik (Cognition of Space/Semantics of Space). Advanced Seminar, Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics | |
| 2012 | Sprachliche Relativität und Raumlinguistik (Linguistic Relativity and Linguistics of Space). Advanced seminar, Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics | |
| 2012 | Konstruktion und Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung (Construction and Phenomenology of Visual Perception). Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I | |
| 2011/2012 | Erkenntnistheorie der Spur (Epistemology of Trace). Advanced seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I | |
| 2011 | Semiotik und Sprechakttheorie (Semiotics and Speech Act Theory). Advanced seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I | |
| 2010/2011 | Sprache und Kognition (Language and Cognition). Advanced seminar, Humboldt- University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I | |
| 2010 | Einführung in den Radikalen Konstruktivismus (Introduction to Radical Constructivism). Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I | |
| 2009/2010 | Semiotik und Sprechakttheorie: Vom Gebrauch der Zeichen (Semiotics and Speech Act Theory: On the Usage of Signs). Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I | |
| 2007 | Introduction to Syntactic Theories. As Teaching Assistant of Prof. Dr. Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University, Center for Cognitive Studies | |
| 2006 | Introduction to Linguistics. In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University, Center for Cognitive Studies | |
| 2005 | History of Linguistics. Advanced seminar, University of Alberta, Department of Linguistics | |
| 2004 | Introductory Linguistics. University of Alberta, Department of Linguistics | |
| 2003 | Readings in Pre-Chomskian Linguistics. Advanced seminar, University of Alberta, Department of Linguistics | |
| 1999 | Student Assistant and Instructor of three graduate courses on German literature and literary criticism, German linguistics, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway, Department of German Language and Literature | |
| 1997–1999 | Student Assistant at University of Hamburg, Department of Applied Linguistics | |
| 1995–1997 | Tutor at University of Hamburg, Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature | |
| Supervision of B.A. Theses | ||
| 2015 | Anne Mareike Lisker. Maurice Merleau-Ponty und das Smartphone: Verkörperungstheorien und Wahrnehmungstheorien. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, Institut für Philosophie. | |
| 2015 | Jan Möller. Erkenntnis und Erleben. Zur Intuition als Erkenntnismethode bei Henri Bergson. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, Institut für Philosophie. | |
| 2013 | Jonas Nölle. Räumliche Referenzrahmen im Deutschen. Eine kognitionslinguistische Analyse von Konzeptualisierungen räumlicher Szenen. Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics, Institute for Language and Communication | |
| 2012 | Bastian Diekmann. Das Nichts in den Texten M. Heideggers. Eine Annäherung: Wie lässt sich das Nichts lesend denken und denkend erfahren? Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy I | |
| Supervision of M.A. Theses | ||
| 2016 | Isabel Hartmann. Audiovisuelle Codierung von urbanen Räumen und deren Wahrnehmung. Eine qualitative Analyse von Stadt-Imagefilmen | |
| 2015 | Caspar Maximilian auf der Horst Das symbolische Zeichen im Mythos. Zur symbolgebundenen Welterfahrung Ernst Cassirers. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Philosophy I | |
| 2015 | Petra Hart. Eine Annäherung an den Anderen. Zum Problem der Sprache in Levinas’ Jenseits des Seins. Freie Universität Berlin, Philosophie. | |
| 2015 | Anna Henker. Zeitbeschreibende Gesten im Sprachvergleich – Eine kognitionslinguistische Gestenanalyse im Finnlandschwedischen. Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics, Institute for Language and Communication | |
| 2014 | Maria Kiseleva. Sprache, Raum und Perspektivität in Reiseführern. Eine vergleichende Studie zwischen dem Russischen und Deutschen. Berlin Technical University, Department of General Linguistics, Institute for Language and Communication | |
| Supervision of Postdocproject | ||
| 2016 | Research Project with Dr. Johan Blomberg (Postdoc at the Technische University Berlin, Linguistics & Lund University) on „The Objectification of Space - Lingusitic and Historical Explorations of the Concept Space“. | |
| Conference Presentations (Peer Reviewed) | ||
| 2014 | Cognitive maps of landmark orientation. Constructions and Cognition. Sechste Internationale Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik (DGKL). Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 30 September–2 October | |
| 2014 | Gestaltkonstruktionen in Sprache und visueller Wahrnehmung. Blickwinkel – Standpunkte. Perspektive und Perspektivität in Bild und Text. Konferenz Topoi Excellence Cluster. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations. Humboldt-Universität & Freie Universität Berlin, 3–4 July | |
| 2013 | Towards a cognitive-linguistic reconstruction of “mental maps” from ancient texts, gem. mit Günther Goerz und Ekaterina Ilyushechkina. 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science, Universität Marseille, 15–17 October | |
| 2013 | Topographical Coordinates in Dene and Eipo. 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 23–28 June | |
| 2012 | Mental models of spatial cognition: Toponyms and orientation. 11th Biannual Meeting of the German Cognitive Science Society, Bamberg University, Germany, 30 September–3 October | |
| 2012 | Implicit knowledge structures as mental models in common sense geography. TOPOI Excellence Cluster Workshop Common Sense Geography. Implicit Geographical Knowledge in Antiquity, Free University Berlin, Germany, 13–15 September | |
| 2012 | Topographical Coordinates and Spatial Language. 35th International LAUD Symposium: Cognitive Psycholinguistics: Bilingualism, Cognition and Communication, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, 26–29 March | |
| 2011 | The influence of environmental landmarks upon spatial language: What about linguistic relativity? Third Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 14–16 June | |
| 2011 | Mental models and semiotics of space. Towards Cognitive Semiotics. A Semiotic Perspective on Cognition – A Cognitive Perspective on Semiosis. Seventh Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, Lund University, Center for Cognitive Semiotics, Sweden, 6–8 May | |
| 2011 | Meaning change in spatial concepts. Language Use and Language Structure. Winter Symposium, Aarhus University, Center for Semiotics, Denmark, 27–28 January | |
| 2010 | Successive projections of sequential and summary scanning in Eipo. Fourth International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, University of Bremen, Germany, 7–9 October | |
| 2010 | Metaphorical usages of spatial concepts in Dene Chipewyan and Eipo. 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), 2010, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, 25–30 July | |
| 2010 | Representation of mental spaces in Eipo. 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, 6–8 July | |
| 2010 | Intralingual variation of spatial concepts in an Athapaskan language. 34th International LAUD Symposium: Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation in its Structural, Conceptual and Cultural Dimensions, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, 15–18 March | |
| 2010 | Language-specific variation in spatial semantics. 32nd Annual Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Workshop Konzeptualisierung von Raum: Morphosyntax und Semantik spatialer Relatoren, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, 23–26 February | |
| 2009 | The semantic pole in the presumably atemporal processes of spatial categorization in Eipo. International Cognitive Linguistic Conference (ICLC) 11, planned to take place at the University of California, Berkeley, 28 July–3 August, cancelled and postponed until 2010, Bejing, China | |
| 2007 | The construction of topological mental spaces. New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics (NDCL): Second UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, 27–30 August | |
| 2006 | Cognitive operations in the encoding of topological relations. 5th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO), University of Murcia, Spain, 19–21 October | |
| 2006 | The semantics of topological relations: Presenting data from a new elicitation tool. International Conference of German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 5–7 October | |
| 2006 | The semantics of topological relations in Dene Suline Presenting data from a new elicitation tool. 11th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain, 21–23 September | |
| 2006 | The construction of mental spaces. 11th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, University of Pompeu, Fabra, 21–23 September | |
| 2006 | Construing topological mental spaces. 39th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, 30 August–2 September | |
| 2006 | (with Prof. Dr. Sally Rice) Language on the land: Video-based elicitation materials for Dene languages. Dene Languages Conference, Dene Cultural Institute and the Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, Yellowknife, Canada, 13–15 June | |
| 2006 | Classificatory verb systems in Dene. Dene Languages Conference. Dene Cultural Institute) and the Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, Yellowknife, Canada, 13–15 June | |
| 2006 | Topological Relations in an Athapaskan Language. Colloquium Series. Workshop for the Working Papers Issue 2006, University of Alberta, Department of Linguistics, Canada, 13 April | |
| 2005 | A new elicitation tool on spatial categorization and construction. New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics (NDCL): First UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Brighton, United Kingdom, 23–25 October | |
| 2005 | The Cognitive Semantic Interface in the Construction of Spatial Mental Spaces. Post-Cognitivist Psychology 2005 Conference, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, 4–6 July | |
| 2005 | Spatial categorization in Dene Suline: Presenting data from a new elicitation tool. 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Yonsei University, South Korea, 17–22 July | |
| 2005 | The construction of topological space. 1st Scandinavian PhD Conference in Linguistics and Philology, Bergen University, Norway, 13–15 June | |
| 2004 | A cognitive semantic approach to the construction of topological space. Current Trends in Cognitive Linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany, 10–11 December | |
| 2004 | A corpus-based semantic analysis of Norwegian se. 7th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language, University of Alberta, Canada, 8–10 October | |
| 2003 | Relational predications in Northern Athapaskan: A cognitive semantic analysis. 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University La Rioja, Spain, 20–25 July | |
| 2003 | (with Prof. Dr. Sally Rice and Lindsay Greiner) Language, culture, and cognition and the encoding of topological relations (or how space isn’t so “basic” in Dene and Cree). Language, Culture and Cognition: An International Conference on Cognitive Linguistics. Catholic University Braga, Portugal, 16–18 July | |
| 2001 | The mental lexicon in L2 production. Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Alberta, Banff, Canada, 13–15 October | |
| Invited Presentations and Public Lectures | ||
| 2017 | Implicit and tacit knowledge in Flavio Biondo’s historiographical and geographical “Italia Illustrata”. Streets, Routes, Methods I: Reflections on Paths, Spaces and Temporalities, MPI Florence, 05–06. | |
| 2017 | with Ekaterina Ilyushechkina (RANEPA Moscow) and Gunther Goerz (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, MPI Rome). Ancient Geography Goes Digital: Representation of Spatial Orientation in Ancient Texts. Classical Philology Goes Digital. Working on Textual Phenomena of Ancient Texts. University Leipzig, 16–17 February. | |
| 2017 | with Guenther Goerz (University Nuremberg-Erlangen), Spatial Cognition in Historical Geographic Texts and Maps: Methodologies and Theories. Digital Infrastructure for Named Entities Data. Leipzig, Humboldt Chair for Digital Humanities January 11–13. | |
| 2016 | Interdisciplinary Take on Linguistic Relativity. Institut für Mehrsprachigkeit, Universität Fribourg, Schweiz, 17–20 September. | |
| 2015 | Cognitive maps in Dene and Eipo. Linguistics Circle Lecture Series, School of Linguistics and English Literature, Bangor University, Wales, 4 November. | |
| 2015 | Raumpraktiken: Kognitionslinguistische und kognitionsanthropologische Aspekte der Raumorientierung. Institut für Mehrsprachigkeit, University of Fribourg, Schweiz, 17 September. | |
| 2014 | Figure-Ground Reversals in Language and Visual Perception: A Cognitive Semiotic Approach. Workshop Perspectivization in Language: Source-Goal Asymmetry in Motion Events, Deixis, and Frames of Reference. Topoi Excellence Cluster, Berlin, 25–26 July. | |
| 2014 | Kognitive Karten: Figur-Grund-Asymmetrien und Referenzrahmen (Cognitive maps: Figure-ground asymmetries and reference frames). Third Thursday Cluster Meeting. Keytopic Mapping. Topoi Excellence Cluster. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations. Humboldt University Berlin, 19 June. | |
| 2014 | Gestalt constructions in Navigation. Center for Cognitive Semiotics. Lund University, Sweden, 18–20 March. | |
| 2014 | Spatial Semiotics. Center for Cognitive Semiotics. Lund University, Sweden, 18–20 March. | |
| 2013 | Mentale Modelle der Raumkognition (Mental models of spatial cognition). Ringvorlesung Kognitionswissenschaft (Public Lecture Series on Cognitive Sciences). Humboldt University Berlin, Psychology, 24 April. | |
| 2013 | Spatial Semantics/Semiotics and Gestalt Theory. Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bildakt und Verkörperung. Berlin, Germany, 18 February. | |
| 2012 | Mental models of implicit knowledge in dead reckoning. TOPOI Excellence Cluster Workshop Common Sense Geography, Free University Berlin, Germany, 13–15 September. | |
| 2012 | Mental Spaces and Topographical Coordinates. Berlin Technical University, Institute for Language and Communication, Germany, 16 May. | |
| 2011 | Spatial Semantics in Dene Chipewyan (Athapaskan) and Eipomek (Trans-New Guinea). Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 27 June. | |
| 2011 | Mentale Modelle: Schnittmenge zwischen implizitem und explizitem Wissen? (Mental models: Intersection between implicit and explicit knowledge?) TOPOI Excellence Cluster Workshop Implizites Wissen, Free University Berlin, 18 March. | |
| 2011 | Überlegungen zur Relation von Sprache und Kognition (Thoughts on the relation between language and cognition). TOPOI Excellence Cluster 264, Research Group Bewegungsraum, Free University Berlin, 11 January. | |
| 2010 | Raumrepräsentation in nicht-schriftsprachlichen Kulturen. Sprache, Kognition und Kultur am Beispiel des Hausbaus der Eipo in West-Neuguinea. (Representations of space in non-written cultures. Language, cognition and culture exemplified by house building techniques in Eipo on Papua New Guinea). Public lecture and film screening on the occasion of the Wissenschaftsjahr. Film in der Wissenschaft – Eine Werkschau mit Experten. Forscherfilme: Wissenschaft als Experiment und visuelles Erlebnis. Free University Berlin, 25 May. | |
| 2009 | Linguistic spatial representations in Dene Chipewyan and Eipomek. TOPOI Excellence Cluster 264, Research Group C-I-1 Spaces in Language, Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Egyptology and Archeology of North Africa, 10 November. | |
| 2005 | The construction of space. Forum for Kognitiv Vitenskap, University of Bergen, German Department, Norway, 29 April. | |
| 1999 | A representational model of the conceptual semantic interface: Towards a new theory of the mental lexicon. University of Bergen, German Department, Norway, 4 November. | |
| Memberships and Research Group Participation | ||
| Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik (DGS), since 2012. Member of the Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft e.V. (GK), since 2011. Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), since 2009. Member of the International Cognitive Linguistic Association (ICLA), since 2007. Member of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, since 2006. Member of the German Cognitive Linguistic Association, 2004. Participant of the Neuroscience & Culture reading group, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2008–2010. Participant of the Body, Language, and Mind (BLAM) reading group, University of Alberta, 2001–2006. Research in English Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics Colloquium, University of Hamburg, 1997. | ||
| Miscellaneous | ||
| Reviewer of the Language Sciences Journal, Elsevier, since 2013. Conceptualization of the displays “Image/Sign/Sound” and “Language/Communication” for the new permanent exhibition of the Museum for Communication Berlin, 2013. Coordinator and organizer of the monthly meeting Theories of Space and Knowledge Workshops, TOPOI Excellence Cluster 264, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2008–2012. Chair at the 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kings College, London, 10–12 July 2012. Chair at the Sciences of Communication in the 20th Century Workshop, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 18–20 March, 2010. Participant of the 8th internationalen Kongreß der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie (GfA), Munich, 14–18 September, 2009. Reviewer for the 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), University of California, Berkeley, 28 July–3August, 2009. Participant at and co-organizer of the Building Meaning from Language conference, sponsored by Tufts University, Department of Psychology, and the American Psychological Association, Medford, USA, 14–16, June, 2007. Initiator, organizer, and facilitator of the Linguistic Working Papers Workshop, University of Alberta, Department of Linguistics, 13 April, 2006. Participant of the Language, Culture & Mind: Integrating Perspectives & Methodologies in the Study of Language conference. Portsmouth, UK, 18–20 July, 2004. Volunteer and co-organizer at the Seventh Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language (CSDL-7), University of Alberta, 8–10 October, 2004. Volunteer and co-organizer at the Seventh Annual Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA-7), University of Alberta, 22–24 March, 2002. | ||
Languages | Competence | |
| German | Native speaker | |
| English | Oral and written fluency/excellent | |
| Norwegian | Advanced | |
| Swedish, Danish | Vantage/upper intermediate | |
| French | Basic reading comprehension/elementary | |
| Athapaskan Languages (Na-Dené): Beaver, Cherokee, Dene Chipewyan, Dogrib, Koyukon, Navajo (Apache), Slavey, Tlingit | Analytical skills/elementary | |
| Mek-Languages (Papua New Guinea): Eipomek, Yali/Kossarek | Analytical skills/elementary | |
| Uto-Aztecan: Hopi | Analytical skills/elementary | |
| Totonacan: Upper Necaxa Totonac | Analytical skills/elementary | |
| Berlin, 24 July 2014 | ||