Awards and Grants

• April 2013-July 2013, Grant from the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung, for a research surves on tools for historical langauges
• November 2011, series of conferences, DAAD visiting grant, for invited talks at the Universities of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cordoba (Argentina), Santiagoa de Chiel (Chile)
• February 2009, I won the FLARENET Contest, see.http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=Vienna09_Contest
• 2008, Best Paper Award at ECTEL, together with Lothar Lemnitzer, Alex Killing, Kiril Simov, Diane Evans, Dan Cristea and Paola Monachesi, for the paper Improving the Search for Learning Objects with Keywords and Ontologies
• 2006 EXPO 2006 1st Prize for the student Project "TELAS: Ein Telefonauskunftssystem für ausländische Studierende" (coordinated students: Fabian Greuel, Jan Lüke, Ricardo Nonomura, Johannes Stammer)
• 2005 DFG short research grant (1 month) at the Macquarie university Sysdney (Prof. Robert Dale)
• 2002- 2003 Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg