Fiona Maier

Fiona Maier M.A.

Institut für Linguistik - Phonetik
Herbert-Lewin-Straße 6
D-50931 Köln

E-Mail: fiona.maier(ɐ)uni-koeln[dot]de

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Rapport in Face-to-Face Dialogue. Multimodal and Clinical Perspectives on Successful Communication (working title)

In association with SFB 1252 - A02 “Individual behaviour in encoding and decoding prosodic prominence”

Maier, F. (2026). Empathische Kommunikation messbar machen? Der Einsatz von mobilen Eye-Tracking-Brillen im Kommunikationstraining für angehende Ärztinnen und Ärzte. [Conference Talk], DGSS-Jahrestagung 2026, RWTH Aachen.
Maier, F., Wehrle, S., Spaniol, M., Wünsche, M., Vogeley, K. & Grice, M. (2025, November 26-27): Cognition, context, and connection: Individual and dyadic factors in successful face-to-face communication [Poster presentation], CRC Networking Event, Bielefeld, Germany.
Maier, F. (2025, September 25-27): Die Beziehungsebene explizit machen: Metakommunikation als Schlüssel zu Rapport, Verständlichkeit und erfolgreicher Inhaltsvermittlung [Conference Talk], Jahrestagung DGSS, Halle a. d. Saale, Germany.

2025, Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS) Junior travel fund for DGSS-Jahrestagung at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2021 – 2022: DAAD Lehrassistenzstipendium for teaching at University College Dublin, Ireland

04/2025 – pres.
Ph.D. student Linguistics, CRC “Prominence in Language”, project A02,
Linguistics, University of Cologne, Germany
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Martine Grice and Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley
2022 – 2024
M.A. (research) Linguistic & Communication, final grade “excellent”
Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thesis title: (Re-)Contextualizing Knowledge through Metadiscourse: Relational Communication in TED Talk Presentations
2016 – 2019
B.A. Speech Communication Science, final grade “sehr gut“
Abteilung für Sprechwissenschaft, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Thesis title: Phonetic and suprasegmental analysis of truthful and untrue narrative statements

2026, winter term: “Empathetic Communication” for medical students,
together with Dr. Malin Spaniol and Saskia Rodenberger
2023 & 2024, winter term: Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Phonetics seminar “Transcription” for B.A. students of Linguistics
2022, academic year: Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany
within Program for the Academic Preparation and Integration of Refugees
German language teaching for international students of all subjects
2021 – 2022, academic year: University College Dublin, Ireland
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
German language classes for B.A. students
2021, summer term: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Bereich Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik
Seminar "Speech Communication in Teaching Professions" for B.A. students

2022 – 2025: Senior Localization Specialist at Effectory B.V., The Netherlands
2020: Team Lead for “Information Management and Training” at Amevida Finance, Germany
2019: Teacher for „Social Interaction, Conversation, Language“ at vocational school for social affairs, Lehmbaugruppe Leipzig, Germany
2018: Student assistant at State Competence Center for Early Language Support Saxony (LaKoS)
2014 – 2016: Student assistant at Department of "Language and Communication" at the Faculty of Education Sciences, Universität Leipzig, Germany

Graduated Speech trainer (Sprecherzieherin) at German Society for Speech Science and Speech Education e.V. (DGSS e.V.)
Teaching Qualification ‘Basic’ at Servicestelle LehreLernen, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Badge “Universal Design in Teaching and Learning” at National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Ireland

2022: German Studies Conference 2022 for Irish Undergraduates, University College Dublin, Ireland
2022: “German Colours Debate“ between Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, Ireland
2018: Leipziger Frühjahrssymposium “Sprache und Kommunikation“, Universität Leipzig, Germany