Thomas STROBEL

December 2023 - present: 
Fixed-term researcher (letter b) at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University Venice (academic recruitment field 10/M1 Germanic languages, literatures and cultures; academic discipline L-LIN/14 Language and translation - German)

2012-2023:
Research assistant and Research fellow at the Department of Historical Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Helmut Weiß), Institute of Linguistics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

2010/2011-2016/2017:
Doctoral studies program in German studies and doctorate in the field of General linguistics with the dissertation "Pronominale Partitivität: Arealität und Mikrovariation einer morphosyntaktischen Variable in den Varietäten des Deutschen" [Pronominal partitivity: areality and microvariation of a morpho­syntactic variable in varieties of German] at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Advisors: Prof. Dr. Helmut Weiß, Frankfurt, and Prof. Dr. Elvira Glaser, Zürich): Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.)

2010-2016:
Research assistant on the DFG project (German Research Foundation) "Syntax hessischer Dialekte" (SyHD - Syntax of Hessian Dialects) (Principle investigators: Prof. Dr. Jürg Fleischer, Marburg, Prof. Dr. Alexandra N. Lenz, Vienna, Prof. Dr. Helmut Weiß, Frankfurt am Main)

2010:
Lecturer at the Germanic Institute of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Gerd Antos, German Linguistics)

2009:
Research assistant on the DFG project (German Research Foundation) "Regularity and irregularity in the case morphology of German speech islands (Russia, Brazil): intralingual, interlingual, typological convergence" (Principle investigator: Dr. Peter Rosenberg) at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Cultural Studies Department, Chair for Language Use and Comparative Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Konstanze Jungbluth)

2007-2010:
Research assistant for the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS - German Language Association), Wiesbaden

2006:
Fellow in the DFG graduate school (German Research Foundation) "Satzarten: Variation und Interpretation" [Sentence Types: Variation and Interpretation] at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Günther Grewendorf)

2003-2006:
Degree program in General linguistics (major), Romance languages (Ital.) and Romance cultural studies (Ital.) at the University of Passau: Magister Artium (M.A.)

2001-2002:
Study abroad at the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, as a fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service) and the Instituto Camões

1999-2001 & 2002-2006:
Degree program "Sprachen, Wirtschafts- und Kulturraumstudien" [Languages, socio-economic and cultural studies] at the University of Passau (focal areas: Italian/Portuguese, Economics, History, Political Science, Regional Studies, Linguistics): Dipl.-Kulturw. Univ.