Thomas Hoffmann - Curriculum Vitae#

• 2024 Chair (W3) offered by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (declined)
  
• 2020 Chair (W3) offered by Leipzig University (declined)
  
• 2015 Professorship (W2) offered by JG University Mainz (declined)
  
• 2014 – now Chair (W3) offered by KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (accepted)
  
• 2014 Chair (W3) offered by Saarland University (declined)
  
• 2010 – 2015 Assistant Professor (tenure-track) (English Linguistics / Osnabrück University)
  
• 2008 – 2010 Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track) (English Linguistics / Regensburg University)
  
• 2004 – 2007 Teaching and Research Assistant (English Linguistics / Regensburg University)

• 2024 – 2025 VolkswagenStiftung (Co-PI mit Prof. Dr. Marco Steinhauser, ca. 275,000€) “Predictive Construction Grammar – Developing a neuro-cognitive model of linguistic creativity”
  
• 2021 – 2025 DFG Sachbeihilfe (PI, ca. 325,000€) “Competing Constructions: Preposition Stranding and Pied-Piping in World Englishes”
  
• 2021 – 2025 DFG Sachbeihilfe (PI, ca. 230,000€) “Comparative Correlative Constructions: The more languages, the better
  
• 2017 – 2021 DFG Sachbeihilfe (PI, ca. 210,000€) “Englische Komparativ-Korrelativ Konstruktionen: The more data, the better”

• since 2025 Associate Editor of Cognitive Linguistics
  
• since 2022 with Alexander Bergs, Editor-in-Chief. Elements in Construction Grammar. Cambridge University Press.
  
• 2015 – now Editor-in-Chief (2015–2022) and Senior Consulting Editor (since 2022) of the platinum open access journal Constructions
  
• 2014 – 2020 Area Editor Syntax of Linguistics Vanguard
  
• Member of the Editorial Boards of Cognitive Linguistic Studies (since 2024), Cognitive Semantics (since 2024), English Text Construction (since 2026), English World-Wide (since 2013), The University of Nairobi Journal of Language and Linguistics (since 2010)

• since 2021 Chair of the University Senate (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
  
• 2017 – 2021 Dean of the School of Languages and Literary Studies (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
  
• 2015 – 2017 Vice Dean of the School of Languages and Literary Studies (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
  
• 2017 – 2017 Head of Department (English Studies / Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
  
• 2014 – 2015 Head of Department (English Studies / Osnabrück University)
  
• 2011 – 2015 Member of the Executive Board of the School of Languages and Literary Studies (Osnabrück University)
  
• 2012 – 2015 Deputy Head of Department (English Studies / Osnabrück University)
  
• 2005 – 2010 Director of Studies for English Linguistics (University of Regensburg)