Leads colabPotsdam, where information about teaching activities and a list of publications can be found.
Research Experience
Since 2019, full professor of 'Foundations of Computational Linguistics' at the University of Potsdam, Germany; from 2010 to 2019, half-full professor of 'Applied Computational Linguistics' at Bielefeld University, also in Germany, heavily involved in the Excellence Cluster 'Cognitive Interaction Technology'; before that, Junior Independent Research Group Leader at the University of Potsdam, in Germany; briefly a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, not in Germany.
Education
Received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, advised by Alex Lascarides. Previously studied Computational Linguistics, Philosophy, and Computer Science at the University of Bonn.
Background
Research interests include Semantics, Dialogue, Multimodal Interaction, Meaning in Situated Interaction, Natural Language Understanding as an Interactive Process, and Natural Human/Computer Interaction.
Miscellany
Played guitar in several bands in Bonn and programmed electronic music.