Portrait of Thomas Koller
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)
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