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Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

2001-2004
Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Department of Romance languages (Thesis: The acquisition of determiners in bilingual German-Italian and German-French children. Committee chair: Prof. Dr. Natascha Müller (Universität Wuppertal), co-chair: Prof. Dr. Tom Roeper (University of Amherst, Massachusetts), other committee members: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Meisel, Prof Dr. Conxita Lleó, Prof. Dr. Thomas Berg).

2001
M.A. at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Department of Romance Languages and Department of English M.A. Thesis: Der Artikelerwerb bei einem deutsch-italienisch bilingualen Kind (The acquisition of articles in a bilingual German-Italian child)

Employment/appointments

Junior Professor at Hamburg University, Department of Romance Languages (from June 2008)

Assistant Professor at McGill, Montréal, Canada (replacement of Lydia White) (from August 2007 to May 2008)

Offered a 4-year contract as researcher at the University of Bozen (Italy), rejected in favour of teaching position at McGill (July 2008).

Post-doc researchers at the Language Research Centre, University of Calgary (September 2007 to August 2008).

Lecturer at Kiel and Hamburg University (several contracts for the duration of one term in 2006)

Researcher in the project Frühkindlicher Zweisprachigkeit: Italienisch/ Deutsch und Französisch/ Deutsch im Vergleich. (Early bilingualism: Comparing Italian/German and French/German) directed by Prof. Natascha Müller, Research Centre on Multilingualism, University of Hamburg (from April 2001 to June 2005).

Student assistant in the project Frühkindliche Zweisprachigkeit: Italienisch/Deutsch und Französisch/ Deutsch im Vergleich (1999-2001).

Student assistant to Prof. Dr. Monika Hottenroth, Department of Romance Languages, University of Hamburg, assistance in research on verbs of movement in Italian and French (1998-1999).

Forschungsprojekte

2009-2011:
research grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG), Project on Language Attrition and Second Language Acquisition associated with the Research Centre of Multilingualism 538 Hamburg [http://www.uni-hamburg.de/sfb538/index_e.html] (200, 000 Euros from April 2009-June 2011)

2009/2010:
Investigator in excellence cluster LiMA (Linguistic Diversity Management in Urban Areas).

2006/2007:
post-doctoral scholarship at the Language Research Centre, University of Calgary. Research project on unbalanced bilingual (German-English)

2009:
Co-applicant in the Project Effects of input quantity in child bilingual acquisition with Roswita Dressler, University of Calgary.

Gutachtertätigkeiten

Conferences:
International Symposium of Bilingualism
Annual Conference of Going Romance
Boston University Conference of Language Development (BUCLD)