Funding, Honors, and Awards

Research Funding

2021-2023 German Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities: Speakers, listeners, languages: Patterns of variability and contrast in spoken language dynamics; with Marianne Pouplier (LMU Munich), Christopher Carignan and Bronwen Evans (UCL London)
2020-2021 City of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences, funding for a 10-month research project: Viennese children with another first language than German: Evaluation of suspected language disorders focusing on phonetic and phonological parameters; with Carolin Schmid and Brigitte Eisenwort (MedUni Vienna)
2015-2019 German Research Council, funding for an Emmy Noether Research Group: The impact of auditory feedback on error monitoring and phonetic category representation in a second language
2015 German Research Council, funding for an international workshop: Abstraction, Diversity, and Speech Dynamics; with Marianne Pouplier & Jonathan M. Harrington.
2014-2015 Bavarian Equal Opportunities Sponsorship, funding for a 6-month research project: Situated perceptual integration of multiple sources of information.
2012-2014 Humboldt Foundation, funding for a 2-year research project (awarded 2011): Do you hear who is talking? Speaking rate normalization in multiple-talker environments.
2009-2010 German Research Council, funding for the initiation and enhancement of bilateral cooperation with L. Nygaard (Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA) and A. Jesse (then MPI for Psycholinguistics): Use of tone of voice in spoken-word recognition and word learning. .
2006-2009 Max Planck Society: funding for conducting research leading towards the degree of PhD.

Honors and Awards, Scholarships

2011 Max Planck Society, Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievements
2006 University of Vienna, University Award for Excellence (scholarship for outstanding achievements)
2005 University of Vienna, University Award for Excellence (scholarship for outstanding achievements)
2002 ERASMUS scholarship for a 9-months stay at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2002-2005 Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science, and Culture: total of five scholarships for summer schools on language and culture in Russia, Poland, and the Ukraine
2002 University of Vienna, University Award for Excellence (scholarship for outstanding achievements)