Academic activities

Faculty member of the Graduate School on Frequency effects on language
Prodekan (Vice Dean) of the department of Economics and Behavioral Sciences
Member of the Spatial Cognition Research Center (SFB/TR-8, funded by DFG)
Co-director of the Hermann Paul Center for Linguistic Research (HPCL)
Dean of the Philosophical Department I, 2000-2002; Speaker of the four Philosophical Departments of the University of Freiburg, 2000-2001.
Faculty member of the Graduate School on Human and Machine Intelligence (1992-2003) and of the Graduate School on Knowledge acquisition and exchange via electronic media (VGK) at the University of Freiburg.
Author or co-author of more than 100 reviewed scientific papers (articles, etc.); author of two books and editor of four books (e.g., Wörterbuch der Kognitionswissenschaft, 1996).
Editor of the international journal, Cognitive Science Quarterly, 2000-2004.
Member of the editorial board of Theory and Psychology since 1991.
Co-Founder and elected editor (1993-1997) of Kognitionswissenschaft, the journal of the German society for cognitive science (1990-1999).
Elected reviewer for the German Research Association (DFG) 1996-1999 in experimental psychology.
Reviews for several journals, and organizations (e.g., EU ESPRIT program, Max Planck Society, etc.).
Member of the advisory board of IK (Interdisziplinäres Kolleg) since 1997, see IK2007. Organizer of IK2003.
Member of the Cognitive Science Society (CSS), the German Society for Psychology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs), and founding member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). Member of the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik).
Founding member of the German Cognitive Science Society (Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft, GK), member of the board since 1995, and president for the period 1999-2001.
Program chair of the first German conference on cognitive science, 1994. Co-organizer of the Autumn School on Cognition, Freiburg, Sept. 11-15, 2000.