Curriculum Vitae

Jobs

Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- since 07/2020: Privatdozent (≈ Associate Professor in US)
- since 12/2017: Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat)
- 10/2015 - 11/2017: Lecturer (Akademischer Rat)
- 10/2014 - 09/2015: Visiting Professor (Professurvertretung)
Semalytix GmbH, Bielefeld, Germany
- 05/2015 - 07/2020: Co-Founder (Exit in 07/2020)
Semantic Computing Group, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
- 01/2013 – 09/2015: Post-Doctoral Researcher
- 02/2016 - 12/2021: Coopted by CITEC.
Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
- 03/2019: Visiting Lecturer (one week)
- 03/2018: Visiting Lecturer (two weeks, LCT Scholar)
- 03/2017: Visiting Lecturer (two weeks, Erasmus+)
IESL Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- 10/2013 – 12/2013: Visiting Researcher
- 03/2010 – 05/2010: Visiting Scholar
Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), Sankt Augustin, Germany
- 01/2011 – 12/2012: Post-Doctoral Researcher
- 08/2006 – 12/2010: Researcher, PhD student
QuinScape GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
- 12/2004 – 06/2006: Software Developer
University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
- 12/2002 – 11/2004: Student Assistant, School for rehabilitation sciences
- 10/2000 – 03/2002: Student Assistant, Hardware design teaching lab
Yamaha music school, Duisburg
- 02/1997 – 05/1998: Music Teacher

07/2020
Habilitation at University of Stuttgart
08/2006– 12/2010
PhD Student at TU Dortmund University (defense in 05/2011)
10/1999 – 06/2006
Student of Computer Science with minor subject psychology at University of Dortmund
05/1999
General qualification for university entrance (Abitur) at Reinhard- und Max-Mannesmann Gymnasium, Duisburg

2022
Runner-up for best paper award at ArgMining Workshop at COLING
2018
Acknowledged as top reviewer ACL
2018
Students’ Choice for Excellence in Teaching (Institute for Natural Language Processing)
2018
NLDB Best Paper Award
2018
LCT Erasmus Scholarship (University of Malta)
2017
WASSA-2017 Shared Task on Emotion Intensity, Place 2/21
2017
Erasmus+ Scholarship (University of Malta)
2016
Best innovation and transfer project, SEMANTiCS Conference, with Semalytix GmbH
2016
Best paper award, Semantic Sentiment Analysis Workshop, ESWC
2010
PhD Short Term Scholarship, UMass Amherst, DAAD
2008
ISCB Travel Scholarship for ISMB, U.S. Department of Energy
2007
Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Task 2 (NER), Place 4/19
2006
CIMMACS “Best Student Paper”

Member:
Action Editor:
- ACL Rolling Review 2021–2022
Senior Area Chair:
- EACL 2023 (Language Resources and Evaluation)
- ACL 2022 (Sentiment, Argument Mining, Stylistic Analyses)
- EACL 2021 (Sentiment and Argumentation Mining)
Area Chair:
- COLING 2018, 2022
- NAACL 2021
- EMNLP 2020
- ACL 2020
- AKBC 2019
Senior Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Board of IJCAI/IJCAI-ECAI, 2022-2024
- IJCAI 2016, 2017
- ECAI 2020
Workshop Organizer:
- WASSA 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
- ONION 2020, People in language, vision and the mind, with Albert Gatt and Patrizia Paggio
- LIDER Roadmapping Workshop on Content Analytics and Linked Data in Healthcare and Medicine, 2015
Shared Task Organizer:
- IEST Shared Task on Implicit Emotion Recognition 2018
- IGGSA-Shared Task on German Sentiment Analysis (GESTALT) at KONVENS 2014

German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Sachmittelbeihilfen und Forschungsgruppe, https://www.dfg.de/)
Swiss National Science Foundation (http://www.snf.ch)
Bayerischer Forschungsstiftung (https://www.forschungsstiftung.de/)
Vienna Science and Technology Fund (https://www.wwtf.at)

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018-2021
Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017, 2018, 2019
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2016, 2020
Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), 2018-2022
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2021, 2022
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2010-2022
Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2017-2021
ACL Rolling Review, 2021
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it), 2020, 2021
23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), 2021, 2023
Digital Humanities im Deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd), 2018, 2020
Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS)/International Conference of the German Society for Computational Lingustics and Language Technologies (GSCL-Tagung), 2012-2023
Digital Humanities (DH), 2018-2019
International Conference on eParticipation (eGov, ePart) (PC member), 2013-2017

BioNLP, 2022, 2023
Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS), 2019, 2022
Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT), 2018-2021
Workshop on Domain Adaptation for NLP (Adapt-NLP), 2021
Workshop on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Meets Machine Learning at NeurIPS, 2020
Workshop on Computational Modeling of PEople’s Opinions, PersonaLity, and Emotions in Social media (PEOPLES), 2020
SocialNLP, 2017-2020
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA) (PC member), 2015-2018
Ethics in NLP, 2017, 2018