Curriculum Vitae

Phone: 
1. In Amsterdam: 0031-20-5254528 (office); 0031-20-6939540 (home)
2. In Berlin: (030) 4797-129 (office); (030) 9250054 (home)

Email: blutner@uva.nl and blutner@german.hu-berlin.de
Web: http://www.blutner.de

Parents: Marga and Gerhard Blutner

married, 2 children

Address (home):
a. Tasso-Strasse 5, D-13086 Berlin, BRD
b. Reaumurstraat 38, 1097 RH Amsterdam, NL 

1971 -1975. Ph. D. in Theoretical High Energy Physics, Karl Marx University of Leipzig. Dissertation: Multiple Particle Spectra in the Multi-Regge Model.

1967 -1971. B. A. in Physics, Karl Marx University of Leipzig.

1964 -1967. Erweiterte Oberschule Thum (high school, mathematics & sciences in Thum)

1955-1963. Grundschule (primary school) in Auerbach

1995 - present: PD (Privatdozent) of Theoretical Linguistics at the Humboldt University Berlin (Dept. of German Language and Linguistics)

September 2001- February 2002:  Staff scientist, ZAS  Berlin.

1999 - 2001: Chair of the DFG-project "Interpretation of Dialogue"
Research on formal pragmatics (optimality theory in interpretation)

1997 - 1999: Staff scientist,  Research Group "Ontology and Grammar" (chair: M. Bierwisch), at the Humboldt University, Berlin.
Research on the integration of symbolic and subsymbolic systems (nonmonotonic logic and neural networks, optimality theory)

1992 - 1996: Staff scientist, Research Group "Structural Grammar" (chair: M. Bierwisch), at the MPG, Berlin.
Research on formal semantics and pragmatics (prototypes, genericity, lexical pragmatics, conversational implicature)

1982 -1991: Staff scientist, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Berlin.
Research on language comprehension (dimensional adjectives & mental models, lexical access, ontology of spatial concepts) and formal semantics (genericity, dynamic semantics).

1974 - 1981: Staff scientist, Institut für Kybernetik und Informationsprozesse, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Berlin.
Research in Artificial Intelligence (problem solving, automated theorem prooving) and Cognitive Psychology (semantic networks, serial orderings)

2000 - 2002: Language and optimality (graduate lecture). Humboldt-University, Berlin; University of Oslo; ESSLLI, University of Helsinki. 

1998 - 2000: Introduction to logic (undergraduate seminar), Connectionsm for linguists (graduate seminar), Humboldt-University, Berlin; University of Potsdam.

1995 - 1998: Theories of context (graduate seminar), Lexical Pragmatics (graduate seminar), Humboldt-University, Berlin; University of Potsdam.

1993 - 1995: Introduction to linguistics (undergraduate lecture), Formal pragmatics, graduate seminar Humboldt-University, Berlin.

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