Wiltrud Mihatsch

Curriculum Vitae

Since September 2015
Chair of French and Spanish Linguistics at the University of Tübingen
April 2010
Acceptance of the W3 Professorship of Romance Philology

with focus on French and Spanish Linguistics at the Ruhr University Bochum. April 2013-April 2015: Head of Department

February 2008
Habilitation

and award of the venia legendi "Romance Philology" at Bielefeld University.

From Oktober 2007
W2-Professor for Romance Philology

with focus on French and Spanish linguistics at the Ruhr University Bochum.

October 2004-October 2007
Research assistant to Prof Dr Barbara Job in Bielefeld.

Habilitation thesis on the topic: "Approximation methods in Romance languages: Semantic, pragmatic and syntactic features of approximators of French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish in comparison.

2004
Rigorosum-PhD

Graduation "summa cum laude". PhD thesis: Cognitive principles of lexical hierarchies - with a focus on French and Spanish, supervised by Prof. Dr Peter Koch.

January-September 2004
stay in Madrid

Participation in PhD courses as part of the "Doctorado en lingüística teórica y sus aplicaciones" under the direction of Violeta Demonte at the Instituto Ortega y Gasset.

January 2001 - March 2004
Research assistant in the CRC 441 "Linguistic Data Structures: Theoretical and Empirical Principles of Grammar Research"

Project B6 "Lexical change - polygenesis-cognitive constants: The human body", under the direction of Prof Dr Peter Koch in Tübingen.

October-November 2001
Research stay in Argentina (Buenos Aires and Neuquén)

as part of the PROALAR /DAAD programme.

winter term 1999/2000
Substitution of an assistant position

at the chair of Prof. Dr Peter Koch, Romance Linguistics.

From 1998
PhD scholarship and admission to the graduate programme "Integrated Linguistics Studies" in Tübingen.
1997
State Exam

in English, French and Spanish.

1990-1997
Studied English, French and Spanish

at the University of Tübingen and Sheffield (DAAD), work stay in Spain.

1989-1990
Studied business administration

at the Grande École "École Supérieure de Commerce" in Reims, France.