2003 M.A. (Magister Artium) in Romance Philology (French, Italian, Catalan, and Sardinian) and American Literature; Tübingen University (Germany). Different grants (Eramus and DAAD) for study stays at Rennes II University (France), University of Pisa (Italy), and Maynooth University (Ireland). Title of the Master’s Thesis: Normierungsprobleme des Sardischen.
2013 Dr. phil. in Romance Philology, University of Tübingen (Germany). DAAD-grant for a 10-month research stay at Lumière University Lyon 2 (France). Title of the Doctoral Thesis: Polysemie als Verfahren lexikalischer Motivation: Theorie und Empirie am Beispiel von Metonymie und Metapher im Französischen und Italienischen.
Academic Positions
2020 – today:Full Professor of Romance Philology (French and Italian Linguistics) at the University of Freiburg (Germany);
2014 – 2020: Associate Professor of Romance Philology (French and Italian Linguistics) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany);
10/2013 – 03/2014: Interim Associate Professor of Romance Philology (Linguistics) at the University of Cologne (Germany);
04/2009 – 08/2014: Assistant Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart (Germany);
10/2007 – 03/2009: Research Associate at the Institute of Romance Philology at the University of Stuttgart (Germany);
01/2005 – 09/2008: Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center 441 at the University of Tübingen (Germany), Project B6 Lexical Motivation in French Italian and German;
11/2006 – 02/2007: Lecturer in French Language at the Institute of Romance Philology at the University of Stuttgart (Germany);
08/2000 – 04/2004: Different positions as Student Research Assistant, Student Teaching Assistant, and Interim Lecturer at the Department of Romance Philology at the University of Tübingen (Germany).
