Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg

Phone: +49 681 302 70024
vera(at)coli.uni-saarland.de

Saarbrücken Campus
Building C7 2, Room 3.02

Chair of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics
Department of Computer Science
co-opted Professor at Department of Language Science and Technology

Research interests

Cognitive Models of Human Language Understanding
Multimodality: Language Processing in a Dual-Task Setting
Parsing and Grammar Formalisms
Experimental Psycholinguistics

Mini-bio

Since 2016	Professor (W2) for Computer Science and Computational Linguistics, Saarland University
2010-2016	Head of Independent Research Group at the Cluster of Excellence, Saarland University
2006-2010	Doctorate at the School of Informatics, Edinburgh University
2008	Internship with Google, Mountain View (3 months)
2004-2005	MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
2001-2006	Diplom in Linguistics, Stuttgart University

Prizes and awards

2014	Selected for Falling Walls Lab 2014, Berlin; awarded A.T. Kearney Scholarship for the Falling Walls Conference
2011	Cognitive Science Society Glushko Dissertation Prize, awarded 10,000 USD
2011	Runner-up for 2011 CPHC / BCS Distinguished Dissertations Competition
2011	Runner-up for FoLLI E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2011
2008	Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Finalist, awarded 1,000 EUR
2007	Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Finalist, awarded 1,000 EUR
2007	Young Scientist Award for the best platform presentation by a junior scientist at the 13th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2007)
2005	Edinburgh University Jim Howe Prize for best student in MSc AI
2002-2006	Full time scholarship from Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst