Academic career

2016-2019

  • Habilitation
    Institute for Information Science and Language Technology, University of Hildesheim
    Venia Legendi: "Specialised communication and language technology"

    Title of the habilitation thesis: Ontology - Frame - Terminology. A method for extracting and modelling variants of technical terms.


2008-2011

  • Doctorate
    Institute for Translation and Interpreting, University of Heidelberg

    Title of the dissertation: Un dizionario elettronico delle collocazioni come rete di relazioni lessicali. Studio sul campo semantico della paura [An electronic collocation dictionary as a lexical network: A case study on the word field paura/fear].


1999-2002

  • Diploma programme in Translation Studies
    Institute for Translation and Interpreting, University of Heidelberg
    Translation Studies (Italian/ English/ German) and Business Informatics


1996-1998

  • Master's degree programme in American Studies/German Studies
    Faculty of Philology, University of Mainz


1992-1998

  • Corso di Laurea in lingue e letterature straniere moderne
    Faculty of Philology, University of Trieste (Italy)
    Main subjects: English/American Studies and German Studies

Teaching and research


2022-

  • University Professor
    Institute for Translation Studies, University of Innsbruck


2016-2022

  • Visiting researcher / Research assistant
    Institute for Information Science and Language Technology, University of Hildesheim


2016

  • Editorial activity: Defining collocations for lexicographic purposes. From linguistic theory to lexicographic practice. Peter Lang (with Adriana Orlandi, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia)


2002-2022

  • Research assistant in teaching and research (teacher for special tasks)
    Institute for Translation and Interpreting, University of Heidelberg


11.03.2013 - 07.04.2013

  • School Visitor
    School of Language Studies, Australian National University, Canberra (AU)


07.10.2012 - 21.10.2012

  • Guest Lecturer
    School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University, London (UK)


16.08.2012 - 16.09.2012

  • Visiting Fellow
    Centre for European Studies, Australian National University, Canberra (AU)


03.2012

  • Guest Lecturer
    School of Arts and Education, Middlesex University, London (UK)


2011-2012

  • Freelance lexicographer
    Cornelsen Publishing House (Berlin)


2006-2020

  • Freelance lexicographer
    Collaboration on Wiegand, H.E. et al. (eds.): Dictionary of Lexicography and Dictionary Research/ Wörterbuch zur Lexikographie und Wörterbuchforschung, de Gruyter


2000-

  • Freelance translator and editor/proofreader
    Specialist and document translations, editing and proofreading in the fields of technology, business and law
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