Wolfgang Klein

Curriculum vitae

Born February 3, 1946 in Spiesen (Saarland)

Education and earlier positions

1965-1970: German and Romance Philology and Philosophy at Universität Saarbrücken

1970: Ph.D. Saarbrücken with a thesis on Sentence Parsing

1970-1972: Researcher in a project on computational linguistics in Saarbrücken

1972: Associate Professor at University of Heidelberg (German Department)

1974-1976: Dean of Faculty of Languages at University of Heidelberg

1976-1980: Full Professor at University of Frankfurt (German Department)

1977-1980: Part-time leave of absence for participation in a project on psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (NL)

1980-2015: Director at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

 

Visiting professor at UCLA, Université de Paris VIII (repeatedly) and University of Peking (Bei Da, repeatedly)

Various honorary professorships and awards