Univ.-Prof. Dr.Christoph Gabriel

Current position: Full professor (W3), permanent
Current institution: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
ORCID: 0000-0002-9967-1159

Degree program: French and musical education (teacher training), 1990–1997, Technical University and University of Arts, Berlin, Germany

Doctorate: March 2000, supervisors: Prof. Trudel Meisenburg, Prof. Martin Haase, French Linguistics, Technical University, Berlin, Germany

Stages of academic/professional career
• since 10/2015: Full professor (W3) of Romance Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
• 09/2009 – 09/2015: Full professor (W3) of Romance Linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany
• 04/2007 – 08/2009: Full professor (W2) of French and Spanish Linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany
• 10/2006 – 03/2007: Assistant lecturer of French and Spanish linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany
• 04/2006 – 03/2007: Lecturer in Romance Linguistics (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), University of Osnabrück, Germany

• 2006: Habilitation (postdoctoral lecturing qualification) in Romance Linguistics, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Positions held
• 03/2000 – 03/2006: Post-doctoral researcher in Romance Linguistics (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent C1), University of Osnabrück, Germany
• 04/1998 – 03/2000: PhD student at Technical University, Berlin, Germany (Nafög scholarship of the Federal State Berlin)

Engagement in the Research System
Fellowships and Grants

2025 – 2029: Project "Unlearning distributions of weak elements: Evidence from German-Turkish learners of L3 French", funded by the DFG (funding number: 531445091 (Part of the Research unit 5757 "Weak elements in phonology: Develpment, processing, and modality")

2025 – 2029: Project "Sensitivity to reduced syllables in learners of L2 German and implications for grammatical learning", funded by the DFG (funding number: 531445091 (Part of the Research unit 5757 "Weak elements in phonology: Develpment, processing, and modality")
2022 – 2029: Project “Judeo-Spanish in Bulgaria: a contact language between archaism and innovation”, funded by the DFG (funding number: 491553503), two subsequent funding periods
2014 – 2019: PI within the collaborative project “Mehrsprachigkeitsentwicklung in Zeitverlauf” / “Multilingual Development: A Longitudinal Perspective”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (funding number: 01JM1406)
2009 – 2012: PI within the cluster of excellence “Linguistic Diversity Management in Urban Areas”, funded by the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg
2008 – 2011: Project H9 “Zur Intonation des Spanischen in Argentinien” / “The intonation of Spanish in Argentina” (SFB 538 “Multilingualism”), funded by the DFG (funding number: 5483483)

Reviewer for journals and publishing companies
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Estudios de fonética experimental, Grazer Linguistische Studien, Hispania, Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Laboratory Phonology, Language and Speech, Language Learning, Languages, Lingua, Linguistik online, Linguistische Berichte, Probus, Revista Virtual de Estudos da Linguagem (ReVEL), Savoirs en Prisme, Second Language Research, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (SHLL), Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Zeitschrift für Romanische Sprachen und ihre Didaktik, Cambridge University Press
Reviewer for research funding
Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur der Republik Österreich (BMUKK), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina), Fundació La Caixa (Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona), Government of Canada / Canada research chairs, National Science Foundation (NSF), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF), Thyssen-Stiftung