Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Torsten Kai Jachmann

Work Experience

2020 - nowWissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc), Language Science and Technology, Psycholinguistics Group, Saarland University, SFB1102, Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, Project C3  
2015 - 2020Doctoral Researcher, MMCI, Cluster of Excellence (till 2018), SFB1102, Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (since 2018)
2014 - 2015Research Assistant, Psycholinguistics Group, Saarland University, Experiment execution (ERP) and stimulus creation.
2013 - 2015Research Assistant, Embodied Spoken Interaction, MMCI, Saarland University, Experiment execution (Reaction Time, ERP) and stimulus creation.
2013 - 2015Free-lancer, acrolinx, Berlin, Editing-rule creation and testing, evaluation.
2013 - 2015Language Teacher, Volkshochschule, Sulzbach(Saar), Japanese teacher for the levels A1 and A2.

Education

2015 - 2020Ph.D. Candidate at Saarland University (UdS), Psycholinguistics, MMCI, Cluster of Excellence (till 2018), SFB1102, Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (since 2018). 
Dissertation title: “The Immediate Influence of Speaker Gaze on Situated Speech Comprehension: Evidence from Multiple ERP Components”
Final grade: magna cum laude (1.0) 
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthew W. Crocker
Advisor: Dr. Maria Staudte and Dr. Heiner Drenhaus
2013 - 2015M.Sc. in Language Science and Technology, Saarland University (UdS). 
Thesis title: "On Universality of Prosody as a Turn-Taking Cue Across Languages". 
Final grade: 1.3 
Supervisors: Dr. Maria Staudte and Dr. Chiara Gambi
2008 - 2013B.Sc. in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University (UdS). 
Thesis title: “Exploring Domain Adaptation in Machine Translation for English to Japanese”
Final grade: 1.6 
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit and Dr. Robert Grabowski
Advisor: Yu Chen