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SUSANNE FUCHS
ZAS/Phonetik
Schützenstr. 18
10117 Berlin
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tel.: ++49 30 20192 569
fax: ++49 30 10292 402 PERSONAL:
Single, one child (Jolanda Fuchs, 14.12. 2004) EDUCATION:
University:
1999-2005 | PhD student Queen Margaret University College Edinburgh, PhD “Articulatory correlates of the voicing contrast in alveolar obstruent production in German” | 1996-2000 | Student of Drama/Cultural Communication, German Linguistics, New German Literature at Humboldt University Berlin (Intermediate examination) | 1991-1998 | Student of Speech Science and Speech Therapy at Humboldt University Berlin Diploma(level A), Final Work on: Speaking styles in presenting the radio news | 1989-1991 | Student of Social Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
Temporal positions held: 2009-2011
| Member of the Language Documentation project in Vanuatu (Ambrym) sponsored by the VW-Stiftung | 2008-2013
| Ministry for Education and Research – project (full time position) "Boundary phenomena in speech" at ZAS Berlin | | 2008-2012 | Co-Project leader of the PILIOS project which is a cooperation between HU Berlin, ZAS Berlin and GIPSA-lab Grenoble sponsored by the DFH Saarbrücken | | 2005 | Guest researcher at the Insititut de la Communication Parlée Grenoble (3 months)
| 2003-2007 | German Research Council – project (full time position)
“Articulatory economy and perceptive discrimination” at ZAS Berlin;
- Responsible for the project
“Oral and glottal articulatory correlates of laryngeal features“
- Administrative tasks:
Coordinating different parts of the project, representation within the ZAS | 1999-2003 | German Research Council – project (half time position)
“Analysis-by-synthesis of articulatory movements)” at ZAS Berlin
- Responsible for the project: „Laryngeal-oral coordination“ |
Grants & Awards
2007 | Christian Benoit Award (7500 Euro) | 2007 | Grants to support the International Summerschool from CNRS, DFG & AFCP, app. (12000 Euro) | 2004 | Grant to support the German-French Summerschool from the DFH Saarbrücken (13000 Euro) | 2003 | ISCA Grant for participation at ICPhS Barcelona (245 Euro) | 2002 | Princess Alice Award (500 GBP) to travel overseas
Successful application to participate at the Summerschool on “Speech production and perception” NATO ASI-meeting Il Ciocco | 1999 | Graduate Scholarship EPSRC Great Britain |
Organisations
| 2010 | Co-organizer of the summer-school "Cognitive and physical models of speech production and perception: Part III Planning and dynamics" Berlin | | 2010 | Co-organizer of a workshop on positional variations at GLOW (Poznan) | 2008 | Co-organizer of the ISSP Strassbourg | 2007 | Co-organizer of the summerschool “Cognitive and physical models of speech production, perception and the perception-production interaction: Part II Speech and the brain” in Autrans | 2007 | Co-organiser of a special session at ICPhS in Saarbrücken “Is there a biological grounding of phonology?” | 2005 | Co-organiser of the conference “On turbulences” at ZAS Berlin | 2004 | Co-organiser of the summerschool on “Cognitive and physical models of speech production, perception and the perception-production interaction” in Lubmin | 2001 | Co-organiser of the conference “Phonetics-Phonology Interface” at ZAS Berlin |
Membership: Speech related
2004-2008 | Member of the French-German Popaart network | Since 2002 | ASA | Since 2001 | ISCA |
Membership: Others
- Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.v. (NABU)
- SOS Childrens Villages (Financial support of a SOS childrens village in Armenia)
- Mensch Umwelt Tier e.V. (MUT): Protecting the children's farm houses and adventure playgrounds in Berlin
- Free Tibet: Latest document about the Tibetan genozid "China’s Attempts to wipe out the Language and Culture of Tibet" [pdf] from the Department of Information & International Relations (DIIR) Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala Reviewer for: Journal of Phonetics Journal of the International Phonetic Association Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Motor Control ICPhS 2007 in Saarbrücken ISSP 2008 in Strasbourg Lab Phon 2010 Teaching:
2007/2008 | Phonetics, Phonology & Cognition – with PD Dr. Zygis at HU Berlin | 2001 | Phonetic transcription – with Prof. Pompino-Marschall at HU Berlin | 2000 | Voice quality – with Dr. Janker at HU Berlin | 1996/1997 | Speech training for journalists at Oscar-TV with K. Köhler | 1996 | Tutorial “Speech training for drama students” at HU Berlin | 1993/1994 | German phonetics for foreigners at summer courses for foreigners HU Berlin |
Other professional experiences:
1997-2001 | Berlin guide for several international youth groups exchanges | 1996-2000 | Actress in Zimmertheater Berlin (Cabaret) | 1996-1997 | Assistant director at Schauspielhaus Chemnitz and ParkHaus Treptow Berlin | 1996-1999 | Student assistant at the Phonetics lab ZAS Berlin | 1995 | Logopedic Assistant at the University Clinics Homburg (Saarland) | 1994 | Travel guide for youth groups in Egypt (international youth exchange) | 1993 | Assistant in a 4 week compact treatment of pupil who stutter | 1988-1989 | Shift worker at the shoe factory Panther Ehrenfriedersdorf |
Languages:
German: | native speaker | English: | fluent in spoken and written forms | Russian: | basic knowledge | | French: | basic knowledge |
PhD commissions:
2008 | Christian Geng: A crosslinguistic study on the phonetics of dorsal obstruents Daniel Pape: Microprosodic differences between vowels in a cross-linguistic comparison of speech production and perception Renata Asali van der Wal: Phonetik für arabische Deutschlerner. Ein Beitrag zur Erarbeitung von Lehr- und Lernmitteln Jana Brunner: Acoustic compensation and articulo-motor reorganisation in perturbed speech |
Previous student assistants:
Dirk Fischer Johanna SteinbergAnke Bruns Jana BrunnerFlorian ZappHristo VelkovMatthias Ziervogel Berlin, August 2009
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