Curriculum vitae

Contents	Personal data Before university University studies Scientific positions held Memberships	Alb 2008 More photos: Brühl 2003 Prague 2004 Mälaren 2004 Uppsala 2004 L'viv 2005 Alb 2008 Chicago 2010
Personal data	born on 3 November 1973 in Bottrop married to Barbara Bunčić (née Ebel) father of Lara (born 8 July 2006) and Marie (born 7 September 2009)
Before university	Finished grammar school (the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium in Bottrop) in 1993 Abitur (A-levels) in English, mathematics, Russian, and social sciences 1993-1994 alternative service as conscientious objector driving an ambulance car at the Bottrop fire-brigade
University studies and qualification	5 October 1994 to 15 November 2000 student at Cologne University: Staatsexamen (Master degree for prospective grammar-school teachership) in Russian and English Thesis: The linguistic problem of inter-Slavonic 'false friends' in Russian Parallelly: MA studies in Slavonic philology, English philology, and political science (studies completed, but no exams taken) 1 February 1997 to 31 January 1998 year of studies at St Petersburg State University, Russia 5 January 2001 to 6 September 2006 PhD studies under the auspices of Prof. Dr. H. Keipert at the Slavonic Department of Bonn University Thesis: The Ruthenian literary language in Ivan Uževyčs texts with special regard to the vocabulary of his phrase book Rozmova/Besěda 9 May 2012 Habilitation at the Faculty of Humanities of Tübingen University Thesis: Biscriptality in Slavic and non-Slavic languages: A sociolinguistic typology
Scientific positions held	1 June 1999 to 30 November 2000 student assistant at the Slavonic Department of Cologne University 1 April 2001 to 31 March 2007 research assistant at the Slavonic Department (since 1 October 2005 a department of the Institute of Communication Studies) of Bonn University Since 1 April 2007 postdoctoral research associate at the Slavonic Department of Tübingen University
Member- ships	collegiate of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (since 20 September 2011) German Linguistic Society (since 15 June 2011) Commission for the Computer-Assisted Processing of Slavic Manuscripts and Early Printed Books at the International Committee of Slavists (since 12 September 2008) editorial staff of the journal südslavistik online (since 25 November 2007) executive board of the consumers' cooperative Unser Herrlesbergladen eG (since 16 October 2007) German Association of Slavicists (since 16 March 2007) 1 July 2004 to 31 March 2007: scientific staff council of Bonn University (full member)