Biographical note

Rolf Kailuweit (*1965 in West Berlin, Germany) philosophy and Romance languages and literature. After finishing his PhD in Romance Philology in 1996 at the University of Berlin (FU), he went to Heidelberg. He completed his postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) there in 2003, and since 2004 he has been Professor of Linguistics and Media Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg in the department of Romance languages. 
Ranko Matasović (*1968 in Zagreb, Croatia) received his Ph. D. from the University of Zagreb in 1995. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) from 1997-8 and a Humboldt Fellow at Bonn University from 2002-3. He is currently full professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Zagreb.Eva Staudinger (*1976 in Heilbronn, Germany) studied computational linguistics, linguistics, English and Romance languages at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is currently a research assistant at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg in the department of Romance languages.Björn Wiemer (*1966 in Hamburg, Germany) studied Slavic and General Linguistics in Hamburg and Leningrad (M.A. 1992, Hamburg). Before his PhD (1996, Hamburg) he was a post-graduate student for two years in Warsaw. From 1996-2007, he worked at the Chair of Slavic Languages at the University of Constance (Germany), where he finished his post-doctoral thesis in 2002. Since 2007, he is Professor at the Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.