Professor
for Applied Linguistics at the European-University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder.
She holds an MA in General, German, Spanish, and French Linguistics, a PhD in
Linguistics and Psychology, and a Habilitation in General and German Linguistics.Together with Adam Kendon she co-edits the international journal GESTURE and a companion book series
"GESTURE", she is member of the executive board of the
"International
Society for Gesture Studies", and since April 2006 she is head of the
research project "Towards
a grammar of gesture: evolution, brain, and linguistic structures" (funded
by Volkswagenstiftung).