1988-1991

Study of Mathematics at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands,
B.A. (‘propedeuse’) in Mathematics

1991-1994

Study of General Linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands,
M.A. (‘doctoraal’) in General Linguistics

1995-2000

Research Assistant at the Department of General Linguistics, Radboud University of Nijmegen,
Ph.D. in General Linguistics

2000-2004

Research Fellow at the Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin

2004-2009

Senior Researcher at the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig.

2010-2011

Independent Research Group Leader with an ERC-starting grant at the Faculty of Languages and Literatures of the Ludwigs-Maximilians University (LMU), München

2012-present

Full Professor for Linguistic Typology at the Deutsche Sprachatlas of the Philipps-Universität Marburg