Ekkehard Felder is Professor of German Linguistics and one of the directors of the European Centre for Linguistics (EZS). Since 2005 he has coordinated the international research network Language Knowledge (http://sprache-und-wissen.de/). He studied German language and literature, political science and economics in Munich, Madrid and Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1994 from the University of Freiburg, his second state examination for grammar schools in 1996, and his habilitation in 2002 from the University of Münster. He is the editor of numerous book series and has held several fellowships (see https://www.gs.uni-heidelberg.de/sprache02/felder/).