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- born 1963, married, 4 children
- 1982-1987: Studied English and Physical Education at Munich University and Munich Technical and Exeter University, UK
- 1988-1989, 1990-1996 and 1997-1999: Full-time research assistant in English Linguistics, Munich University
- 1989-1990: German Lektor, Westfield College, University of London
- 1992: Dr. phil. in English Linguistics, English Literature and Psycholinguistics
- 1996-1997: Research grant from the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Research in Oxford (Prof. Jean Aitchison) and Birmingham (COBUILD)
- 1999: Habilitation at Munich University
- April - September 1999: Acting Chair of English Linguistics, Dresden Technical University
- October 1999 - March 2000: Acting Chair of English Linguistics, Ruhr-University Bochum
- April 2000 - March 2005: Chair of English Linguistics, Bayreuth University
- Since April 2005: Chair of Modern English Linguistics, Munich University
- 2008-2010: President of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA)
- October and November 2015: Invited Professor at Charles-de-Gaulle Université, Lille 3, France
- Member of the editorial board of the journal Cognitive Linguistics and the book series Language in Performance, Tübingen: Narr
- Since January 2017: Editor of the journal Pragmatics and Cognition
- October 2017 - September 2018: Opus Magnum scholarship awarded by the Volkswagen Foundation