Resume
Employment (Selection)
- Senior Consultant, DFKI GmbH, Berlin, Germany. Feb 2010 – today
- Product Manager, vionto GmbH, Berlin, Germany. Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
- Research Fellow, Sonderforschungsbereich 441 Linguistische Datenstrukturen, Tübingen University, Germany. Feb 2006 – Dec 2008
- Research Assistant, Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität (Centre for Media and Interactivity), Giessen University, Germany. July 2004 – June 2005
- Research and Teaching Assistant, Fachgebiet Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft und Computerlinguistik (Applied and Computational Linguistics Department), Giessen University. June 1999 – June 2004
Education (Selection)
- PhD Applied and Computational Linguistics (Dr. phil.), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Giessen University), Germany, 2006
- MA Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (Magister Artium). Minor subjects: Computer Science and Linguistics. Institute for Semantic Information Processing (now: Institute for Cognitive Science), Universität Osnabrück (Osnabrück University), Germany, 1999
Awards
We received quite a few awards for our visual search engine eyePlorer.com. A list can be found in my XING profile.
GLDV Award for Best Master's Thesis, 1999/2000 at the spring meeting of the Gesellschaft für Linguistische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV; Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology). Mar. 2001
Grant Proposals (Academic only)
- Planning,
Establishing and Extending a Central E-Learning Platform at
Giessen University (with Claus Leggewie, Henning Lobin and
Claudia Leopold), internal Giessen University fund (70.000
Euro). May 2003
Devised a concept on how to establish centrally administered e-learning platforms for the University, in order to avoid isolated and fragmented solutions.
- Automatic Text Summarization (with Henning
Lobin), internal Giessen University fund (16.000 Euro). May 2001
Devised a project on how to better integrate students into the research of our group at Giessen University. This project was a continuation of the research I did in my Master's thesis.
Memberships
- Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
- Association for Computational Linguistics
Full Resume and References
A PDF version of my full resume and a list of references are available upon request.