A. Education and Degrees
• Habilitation (degree Privatdozentin) in Comparative Linguistics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (2010)
• Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Comparative Linguistics (Indo-European Linguistics) from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (2003)
• Master (Mag.a phil.) in linguistics (Indo-European linguistics) from University of Vienna, Austria
• Studies: Indo-European studies and linguistics in Hamburg (Germany) and Vienna (Austria)
B. Positions held
• since 2015: Researcher in linguistics at the French national research institute CNRS;
member of the research unit CeRMI (Centre de recherche sur le monde iranien)
• 2009-2015: Senior researcher at the projects “Documentation of Bashkardi” and “Western Iranian Dialectology”; Department of Empirical Linguistics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
• 1998-2009: Researcher in Comparative Linguistics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
• 1996-1998: Researcher at the project edition of dictionary material by Uto von Melzer; Department of Linguistics, University of Graz / Austria
• 1996-1997: Freelancer for the Iranian department of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1995-1996: Lecturer for German as a foreign language, Faculty of Economics, Univerzita Mateja Bela, Banská Bystrica / Slovakia
• 1994-1995: Freelancer for PHILIPS DICTATION SYSTEMS GesmbH, Vienna: phonetic transcriptions for dictation software
C. Prizes and Awards
• European Award of Iranian Studies (2007) of the Societas Iranologica Europaea for the PhD thesis
• Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science (2008) of the Minerva Foundation
• Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and Visiting Member at Jesus College, University of Cambridge (2015)
D. Teaching
Iranian languages and linguistics;
Indo-European studies, ancient IE languages (historical grammar and text analysis);
Introduction to general linguistics;
German as a Foreign language
Full list of courses on TITUS
E. Editorial Boards
• Beiträge zur Iranistik (Reichert, Wiesbaden): Series editor (since 2021);
• Encyclopædia Iranica: Consulting editor (since 2018);
• Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum (SOAS & British Academy): Member (since 2020)
Journal boards:
• DABIR (Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review);
• Iranian Journal for Applied Language Studies;
• Abstracta Iranica (responsable for linguistics, since 2017)
F. Research Topics
Historical linguistics; Comparative linguistics and Typology;
Relations among the Iranian languages; Historical Grammar of Persian;
Description and Documentation of Iranian minority languages, particularly Balochi and Bashkardi.