Born 19 April 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Education

06/2011

Passed Learning and Teaching in Higher Education programme at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (September 2010 – June 2011)

05/2006

Ph.D. in Slavic and Baltic historical linguistics at the University of Copenhagen with the dissertation Accentual mobility: the prehistory of the Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms

10/2002

M.A. (Danish Magister, mag.art.) in Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen
Subjects: Greek and Italic, Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Albanian, Balto-Slavic, Armenian, Paper 1 (“Den mobile accent i baltoslavisk” [“The mobile accent in Balto-Slavic”]), Paper 2 (“Om den slaviske neoakut og Dybos og Stangs love” [“On the Slavic neoacute and the laws of Dybo and Stang”])

05/2002

Gold medal for the prize dissertation Det baltoslaviske problem: accentologien [The Balto-Slavic problem: accentology] in Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen 2001

06/1999

B.A. in Indo-European Linguistics and Bulgarian at the University of Copenhagen
Subjects: Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics, Introduction to Linguistics, Introduction to Phonetics, Gothic, Proto-Indo-European Morphology, General and Danish Phonology, Sanskrit, Laryngeal Theory, Historical Linguistics, Indo-European Ablaut, Latin, Greek, Vedic, Language Typology and Language Classification; Bulgarian phonetics, Written Translation Bulgarian-Danish, Bulgarian Grammar; Polish Propaedeutics, Polish Phonetics

6/1994

Graduated from Østre Borgerdydskole (passing the Studentereksamen), Copenhagen, with Greek, Latin, and German as high level subjects

10/2012 – present

Associate Professor (temporary) at Roots of Europe, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen · project homepage

• Slavic Historical Grammar (2012)
• Phonetics and Phonology (two lectures)

10/2008 – 10/2012

Postdoc at Roots of Europe, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

• Phonetics and Phonology (two lectures each year: 2009, 2010, 2011)
• History of the Danish Language (two lectures, remote teaching, Vilnius University, 2011)
• History of the Danish Language (2010)
• Greek Dialects (2009)

10/2006 – 09/2008

Danish lecturer at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” · courses homepage

02/2003 – 03/2006

Ph.D. fellow at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen · project title: “The Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms”

• History of the Slavic Languages

09/2002 – 01/2003

Teaching assistant at the Department of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

• History of the Greek Language
• Sanskrit
• Phonetics and Phonology

10/2006 – 09/2008

Danish lecturer at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (passed test in “Bulgarian as a Foreign Language” at level C1)

04/2005 – 06/2005

Research at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

09/2000 – 07/2001

Studies in Russian, History of the Polish Language, and History of the Czech Language at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia (passed test in “Russian as a Foreign Language” at level 3 (out of 4) in the testing system of the Russian Ministery of Education)

08/1998

Summer course in Slovak for Foreigners (“Studia Academica Slovaca”), elementary level, at the Universitety of Bratislava, Slovakia

08/1997

Summer course in Polish for Foreigners (“Polonicum”), intermediate level, at the University of Warsaw, Poland

02/1997 – 07/1997

Studies in Modern Bulgarian and Old Bulgarian at Sofia University “Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria

09/1991 – 06/1992

Italian 3rd grade at the “Liceo Scientifico Statale ‘Piero Gobetti’”, Florence, Italy

08/1990 – 06/1991

German 10th grade at the “Hildegard-Wegscheider Oberschule” in Wilmersdorf, West Berlin, West Germany