Prof. Dr. Peter Auer

Curriculum Vitae

DOB 1954, Full professor of Germanic Philology (Linguistics) at the University of Freiburg. Peter Auer studied General Linguistics, German Linguistics, and Sociology as well as Psychology at the Universities of Cologne, Constance, and Manchester. From 1980-1989 he was a researcher and subsequently assistant professor at the department of Linguistics at the University of Constance, where he completed his dissertation (Promotion) in 1983 and post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitation) in 1988. In 1989 he was a Heisenberg Scholar and later on professor of German Linguistics at the University of Hamburg. He declined positions as a professor at the universities of Munich, Mainz and Bangor (Wales). In addition to six monographs and thirteen edited books and journal issues, he has written around 100 research articles, specialising in bilingualism, sociolinguistics, interaction analysis, dialectology, syntax of spoken language, phonology, and prosody. He has been the principal researcher of 15 externally funded research projects (DFG, VW-Stiftung, Thyssen-Stiftung), co-director of the European Science Foundation Network on “Convergence and divergence of dialects in a changing Europe”, organizer of various international conferences, elected referee of the German science foundation (DFG) for General Linguistics (2000-2008) as well as a member of the Editorial Boards of various national and international academic journals.