Dr. Robert Fuchs is an Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has previously held positions in Hong Kong and at the Universities of Münster and Augsburg, Germany. His research focuses on acoustic phonetics and laboratory phonology, corpus linguistics, corpus-assisted discourse analysis, varieties of English and learner English. In 2016, he was awarded the Richard M. Hogg Prize by the International Society for the Linguistics of English.