Education
Linguistics (PhD)
October 2022 – June 2026
Goethe University Frankfurt
Thesis: Interactions of perspective-taking in gesture and speech
Committee: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert (Goethe University Frankfurt), Prof. Dr. Stefan Hinterwimmer (University of Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California), Prof. Dr. Markus Bader (Goethe University Frankfurt), Prof. Dr. Manfred Sailer (Goethe University Frankfurt), Prof. Dr. Gert Webelhuth (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Submitted: August 2025
Defended: June 2026
Grade: summa cum laude
Linguistics (MA)
October 2019 – September 2022
Goethe University Frankfurt
Specializations: Semantics, Psycholinguistics, and Syntax.
Thesis: The (not-)at-issue status of character viewpoint gestures
Linguistics (BA)
October 2015 – March 2020
Goethe University Frankfurt
Specializations: Semantics, Psycholinguistics, and Syntax.
Thesis: Asymmetrische Modusmarkierung in Konditionalsätzen des Deutschen (Asymmetric mood marking in German conditional clauses)
Work
Research assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
December 2025 – Till Now
Goethe University Frankfurt
Work as a postdoctoral researcher in the ViCom project Visual and non-visual means of perspective taking in language II (PIs: Cornelia Ebert (Frankfurt) and Stefan Hinterwimmer (Hamburg)).
Research assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
April 2024 – November 2025
Goethe University Frankfurt
Work as a PhD student in the ViCom project Visual and non-visual means of perspective taking in language (PIs: Cornelia Ebert (Frankfurt) and Stefan Hinterwimmer (Hamburg)).
Research assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
October 2022 – March 2024
University of Wuppertal
Work as a PhD student in the ViCom project Visual and non-visual means of perspective taking in language (PIs: Cornelia Ebert (Frankfurt) and Stefan Hinterwimmer (Hamburg)).
Student assistant
April 2020 – September 2022
Goethe University Frankfurt
Work as a student assistant at the Chair of Semantics (Cornelia Ebert) at the Department of Linguistics. My main tasks were planning and conducting experimental studies and organizing the Semantics Colloquium.
Student assistant
October 2018 – March 2020
Goethe University Frankfurt
Work as a student assistant at the Chair of Semantics (Manfred Sailer) at the Department of English and American Studies.
Student assistant
October 2017 – September 2022
Goethe University Frankfurt
Work as a student assistant at the Chair of Psycho- and Neurolinguistics (Markus Bader) at the Department of Linguistics. My main tasks were planning, conducting, and analyzing experimental studies.
Student teaching assistant
May 2017 – September 2022
Goethe University Frankfurt
Teaching assistant for the lectures Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft I + II (Introduction to Linguistics I + II). Areas covered: Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, and psycholinguistics.
Student assistant
May 2017 – September 2017
Goethe University Frankfurt
Work as a student assistant in the project Comprehending relative clauses under undisturbed and aphasic conditions (PI: Markus Bader), part of the DFG Research Unit 1783 Relative Clauses.
Sebastian Walter 