Jürgen M. Meisel

1999 - present: (Co-)Chair of the Research Center on Multilingualism, University of Hamburg.

1980 - present: Professor of Linguistics, Dept. Romance Languages, University of Hamburg.

1973-1980: Associate Professor, University of Wuppertal.

1971-1972: post-doctoral fellow, UC San Diego, Linguistics.

1973: post-doctoral fellow, U Massachusetts, Amherst, Linguistics.

1970-1971 Assistant Professor, U Frankfurt.

University Education: Tübingen, Madrid, Frankfurt/Main.

Visiting professor at various universities and institutes in Brazil, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, USA & Yugoslavia.

Supervising: 21 successfully completed doctoral theses. M.A. theses. External member on Ph.D. committees: Various universities in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Sweden, USA.

Research grants: since 1979. Currently: * Simultaneous and Successive Acquisition of Bilingualism (1999-2008), German Science Foundation. * Multilingualism as Cause and Effect of Language Change: Historical Syntax of Romance Languages (1999-2008), German Science Foundation.

I am serving as editor of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press).