Dr. Katharina J. Rohlfing

Short Vita

born 1971 in Tarnowskie Góry, Poland
married to Marc (scientifically not involved)
two children: Samuel and Hannah (evaluating my science)

since June 2008

Head of the Emergentist Semantics Group, Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University

since January 2007

Dilthey Fellow within the initiative Focus on the Humanities supported by the Volkswagen Foundation; Project: Educating attention: Symbiosis of language and action

since January 2005

Research Fellow in the Applied Informatics Group, Bielefeld University;

November 2002 - December 2004

Emmy Noether (DFG) and DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at at the Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages, San Diego State University (Child Language Lab), at the Department of Psychology, University of Chicago (Perception and Action Laboratory) and at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University (Child Language Lab)

May - October 2002

Research Fellow in the Applied Informatics Group, Bielefeld University

April 2002

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Bielefeld University.
Dissertation: UNDERstanding. How infants acquire the meaning of UNDER and other spatial relational terms

November 2000

Certificate of the opengraduate course "DaF" [German as a Foreign Language] at the University of Kassel

April - June 2000

DAAD visiting scholar Center for Research in Language at the UC San Diego, studying "The Foundation of Mind" by Prof. Dr. Jean M. Mandler and "Introduction to the Cognitive Grammar" by Prof. Dr. Ronald W. Langacker

February 2000

visiting Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, working together with Dr. Angelika Wittek

1999 - 2002

Member of the interdisciplinary (Linguistics and Computer Science) Graduate Program at the Bielefeld University;

1997 - 1998

working together with Prof. Dr. Andreas Bartels and Dr. Daniela Bailer-Jones at the University of Paderborn, Philosophy Department (Project: Models as cognitive tools in science)

1997

M.A. in Linguistics, Philosophy and Media Studies at the University of Paderborn

Teaching Activities

"Sprachentwicklung"
"Sprache und Lernen"
"Mentale Repräsentationen"
"Developmental Robotics" with Dr. Stefan Kopp
"Elemente des Kommunikationstrainings im Schulalltag"
"Social robotics" with Dr. Britta Wrede and Dr. Jannik Fritsch
"Experimentelle Psycholinguistik" with Dr. Eva Belke
"Evaluation of multimodal systems"
"Philosophische Relevanz von Metaphern" with Dr. Daniela Bailer-Jones

Contact

Dr. Katharina J. Rohlfing
Universität Bielefeld
CITEC, Gebäude Q
33615 Bielefeld Germany

kjr@uni-bielefeld.de

10.04.2009