July 2007 -

Associate professor (tenured) of linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Nov 2005 - June 2007

Assistant professor (tenure-track) of linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Apr 2005 - Sept 2005

Part-time lecturer of English linguistics, Department for British and American Studies, University of Jena

Feb 2005 - Nov 2005

Visiting scholar with scholarship, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany

May 2002 - Nov 2005

Associate professor (tenured) of English, Institute of Business Communication and Information Science, University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg

Apr 1999 - Apr 2002

Assistant professor (tenure-track) of English, Institute of Business Communication and Information Science, University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg

Oct 1998 - Mar 2005

Part-time lecturer of English linguistics, Department for British and American Studies, University of Hamburg

Sept 1998 - Mar 1999

Part-time lecturer of English, Institute of Business Communication and Information Science, University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg

Apr 1993 - Apr 1998

Student of English linguistics, psychology, educational science and Russian linguistics, University of Hamburg

June 1989 - June 1993

Military service, Personnel department, PzBtl 164 in D-21493 Elmenhorst

Administrative experience

University of Southern Denmark: Departmental coordinator for students' exchange semesters (1999-2005), English language courses coordinator for all English courses at my SDU campus (1999-2005), acting head of committee on course evaluations (2003), substitute member of our study and examination board (2003-2005), member of the committee evaluating our course of studies for the Danish Research Ministry (2004-2005), member of the study and examination board of the SDU course of studies at the University of Flensburg (2004-2005).

University of California, Santa Barbara: Graduate students admissions committee (winter 2005/2006), faculty lab supervisor (since winter 2005/2006), workload committee (since May 2006), representative to the Faculty Legislature (since September 2006)