I am a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Linguistics (Germanic Studies), University of Stuttgart. My research interests are centered around the question of modeling and processing natural language. I am particularly interested in formal semantics and pragmatics, the syntax-semantics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, as well as computational linguistics. During the past years I focused on information structure -- topicality in particular -- and the question where information structure meets truth conditional semantics. My PhD thesis Quantificational Topics. A scopal treatment of exceptional wide scope phenomena is concerned with exactly this question. It investigates the semantic effects of topicality. More precisely, it tries to explain exceptional wide scope phenomena as a consequence of the topical interpretation of the involved indefinite. I am currently interested in epistemic indefinites and quantifiers, e.g. German ein gewisser or ein bestimmter, so'n (as in Ich kenne so'n Typ, der arbeitet bei Saturn.), or 'doubled definite DPs' in German like in Niemand gibt gerne zu, dass er die und die Entscheidung falsch getroffen hat, which seem to have gone unnoticed in the linguistic literature so far. Very recently, I have been working on speech-accompanying gestures and how their meaning contribution interacts with the semantic content of the speech signal.

• Workshop on Funny Indefinites, July 2007, Berlin.

• DGfS-Workshop on Topicality, February 2008, Bamberg.