I am professor of digital linguistics and writing research and a computational linguist by training. My main research areas are linguistic aspects of writing processes and writing technology. As specialist in higher ed didactics and e-learning I focus on how to teach future skills needed in today's and tomorrow's digitally transformed world.
You can read more about these things in my blog Academic Adventures.
Since September 2019 I am with the School of Applied Linguistics of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences where I co-head the lab for Digital Linguistics and focus on processes of text production (PTP). In December 2019 I have been appointed Professor of Digital Linguistics and Writing Research.
From May to August 2019, I was a senior scientific officer at the Center for University Continuing Education at the University of Bern.
From September 2017 to April 2019, I was a specialist for e-learning and e-didactics at the Bern University of Applied Sciences.
From August 2017 to December 2017, I was a Junior Fellow at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern. In Spring Term 2018, I taught an introductory course on Digital Humanities.
From October 2016 to March 2017, I was a Guest Professor at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart.
From October 2015 to September 2016, I was senior researcher at the Leibniz Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim. From May to July 2015, I coordinated the Leibniz-ScienceCampus "Empirical Linguistics and Computational Language Modeling", a cooperation between the IDS and the Institute for Computational Linguistics at the Rupprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg.
From April 2014 to April 2015, I was a PostDoc at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart and project coordinator for the CLARIN-D center Stuttgart.
From April 2013 to March 2014, I was acting professor at the University of Konstanz. I substituted for Prof. Dr. Miriam Butt, the professor in Theoretical and Computational Linguistics.
In March 2011 I finished and defended my dissertation at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zurich in the field of Computational Linguistics. The title of the thesis is: Linguistisch unterstütztes Redigieren: Konzept und exemplarische Umsetzung basierend auf interaktiven computerlinguistischen Ressourcen (published electronically).
From November 2010 to March 2013 I was senior researcher at the German Department at the University of Basel in the OLdPhras project. From 2001 to 2011 I have been working as a computational linguist at the Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich in several projects.
From 2003 to 2011 I was an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zurich. In 2013 I was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Basel.
From 2004 to 2008 I was an e-learning consultant with the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zurich; from 2008 to 2010 I was an e-learning consultant with the School of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.
I studied Computational Linguistics, Spanish Linguistics and Literature, and Political Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1995 to 2001.
For my Master's Thesis I implemented a morphological analyzer for Spanish (SMM). You can test the system online and read the thesis as PDF. SMM is open source.
mail: cerstin@mahlow.ch
PGP public key 0x4734273F
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0215-5551
I support a Ukraine family, organized by Medizinische Hilfe für die Ukraine