| Personal data | |
| Name: | Thomas Koller |
| Nationality: | German |
| Professional experience | |
| July 2008 - date | Working as a web applications developer at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (Netherlands) |
| Jan. 2006 - June 2008 | Working as Learning Support Development Officer (e-learning developer) at the University of Nottingham (England) |
| Oct. 2002 - Nov. 2002 | Working as a lexicographer with SDL International in Maidenhead (England) |
| Oct. 1996 - Sept. 2002 | Working as a nurse at the University hospital of Giessen and the Psychiatric clinic of Giessen |
| Education | |
| Jan. 2003 - Jan. 2007 | PhD (by research) in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) / School of Computing at Dublin City University (Ireland) |
| Oct. 1996 - Sept. 2002 | Master studies: Linguistics of Romance languages (Spanish/Italian),
Applied Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, Didactics of Romance
Languages and Literature, Russian studies / University of Giessen (Germany) - Examination grade: 1.0 ("with distinction") - |
| Master's thesis: Koller, Thomas (2002): Entwicklung eines Syntaxanalyseprogramms für einfache spanische Aussagesätze. [Development of a program for syntactical analysis of simple Spanish declarative sentences]. University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany (download, pdf 938kB) |
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| Oct. 1998 - March 1999 | Academic semester at the University of Granada (Spain) |
| Oct. 1991 - March 1992 | Studies in Technical Mathematics / University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) |
| Oct. 1990 - March 1991 | Studies in Food Chemistry / University of Stuttgart |
| Teaching experience | |
| Oct. 2003 - Dec. 2003 | Dublin City University (Java tutorial for first year students in Computer Science) |
| July 1999 - Aug. 1999 | Summer course of AEGEE Giessen (German as a Foreign Language: GFL) |
| Oct. 1998 - Jan. 1999 | Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación / Universidad de Granada (GFL) |
| July 1998 - Aug. 1998 | Summer course of AEGEE Giessen (GFL) |
| Febr. 1998 - March 1998 | Carl Duisberg Colleg Saarbrücken (GFL and Spanish) |
| Practical training | |
| Aug. 2000 - Oct. 2000 | GData Software Ltd. (Bochum): Software development in C++ |
| Sept. 1999 - Oct. 1999 | Vostok language school (St.Petersburg): Intensive Russian language course |
| Professional training | |
| Oct. 1993 - Sept. 1996 | Nursing at Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart - Examination grade: 1.0 - |
| Further activities | |
| Sept. 1997 - March 2001 | AEGEE Giessen e.V. (European students organisation): Active as Erasmus-Responsible, Language teacher und Treasurer |
| April 1998 - March 2001 | Students representative in various commissions |
| Employment | |
| May 1992 - Sept. 1993 | Working in a ward at Bürgerhospital in Stuttgart |
| March 1991 - June 1991 | Factory worker with Randstad Ltd. in Stuttgart |
| Community service | |
| July 1989 - Sept. 1990 | Working in an ENT ward at Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart |