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Robert Mailhammer is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Linguistics (RSPAS), Australian National University .

Robert is currently continuing a postdoctoral research grant by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation under the Feodor-Lynen programme, which began in 2007 with a six-month postdoc research stay at the University in Melbourne in 2007. The aim of this project is to work on the documentation and analysis of Amurdak, a nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Northern Arnhem Land. A book with stories in Amurdak and English translations will be published later this year. Future plans include a grammar and a dictionary as well as comparative and historical work. In 2008 and 2009 Robert worked as lecturer in English Linguistics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the University of Munich. From 2002 until 2007, Robert worked at the Institute for German Philology and the Institute for English Philology at the University of Munich after receiving his M.A. in German Linguistics, English Linguistics and German Literature there. Before that he passed the State Board Exam for High School teachers for the subjects English and German at the University of Munich. He received his Ph. D. in the subjects Language Theory and Applied Linguistics within the International Ph. D. Programme (LIPP) in 2005 after defending his dissertation on the morphology and etymology of ther Germanic strong verbs with summa cum laude.

He has published a book and a number of research articles in refereed journals and edited volumes. His work has been funded by the German Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), the University of Munich, the DAAD and the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. Robert Mailhammer is a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, the Societas Linguistica Europae as well as the Australian Society of Linguistics.

Robert Mailhammer has taught various undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Munich and the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her has also presented his work at a number of international conferences and has been invited to give public lectures is Germany, Canada and Australia.

In addition, Robert Mailhammer has taught German and English in commercial language schools since 2002, as well as conducting research on German Literature.