Christian Fandrych

Christian Fandrych is a Professor of Linguistics of German as a Foreign and Second Language at the University of Leipzig’s College of Humanities. His research focuses on vocabulary, corpus linguistics, text/contrastive linguistics, and scientific language education. He leads the DFG-funded projects ZuMult (multimodal spoken language corpora) and Gingko (engineering language corpus).

• Editor-in-Chief of 'Deutsch als Fremdsprache'
• Co-editor of 'Deutsche Sprache' and 'Fremdsprache Deutsch'
• Head of international MA programs with Hanoi and Cairo universities

Research areas include empirical corpus analysis, language teaching, and cross-linguistic studies. His work applies corpus data to German as an academic lingua franca, with projects like GeWiss (spoken scientific language) and Dhoch3 (university language policy). Awards include the Konrad Duden Prize 2018.

Teaching involves graduate courses on oral discourse didactics, scientific language, and lexicology. The team supervises 6 research assistants and multiple PhD projects, with notable graduates including Andrea Lösel and Matthias Schwendemann. Collaborations span DAAD-funded initiatives in Vietnam, Egypt, and the Palestinian Territories.