The Infoterm Staff

Director since 1986, Japanese and Chinese and communication studies at the University of Bonn.He spent several years in Japan.As a registered court translator for Japanese, he set up a business promotion and language service company, focussing its activities on East Asia. After joining Infoterm in 1979, he had weathered over the years the rising and falling tides of trends in terminology, enjoying much success, while suffering his share of disappointments as well.He remains an indefatigable promoter of international co-operation in terminology.

Anja joined Infoterm as a trainee in August 2001 after obtaining her M.A. in African Studies, Applied Linguistics and teaching German as a Foreign Language.  Deputy Director since 2008, she represents the Infoterm Office in Germany.
At Infoterm her past jobs included everything from project management, the organization of communication and PR activities, conference and workshop organization (including events co-organized by TermNet) to being editor of the organization’s newsletters.  From 2004 to 2009 she was assistant to the secretary of ISO/TC 37 and in 2006 took over her first own standards project.
She is member of several associations and committees related to terminology, languages and human rights. Her regional focus is Africa and South Asia and her special research interest terminology policies, communication and training, as well as terminology in support of human rights, health and environment issues. She is Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vienna since 2006 (“Terminology policies and/as communication for social change”).

Verena grew up in Burgenland, Austria, and started her translation studies (German, French, and English) at the Center for Translation Studies (University of Vienna) after having graduated from school in 2002. Beside her studies, she worked as Liaison Officer during Austria’s Presidency of the EU in 2006 and subsequently as a trainee and part-time employee at Immoconsult Leasingges.m.b.H. Due to her predilection for sports, she worked as a volunteer at the 2005 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship and participated in the UEFA Euro 2008 as member of the McDonald’s Player Escort Staff. Upon completion of her Erasmus Exchange Semester at the “Institut de management et de communication interculturels” (Institut Catholique de Paris), she wrote her MA thesis on computer-assisted bilingual terminology extraction and joined Infoterm in March 2009, where she is in charge of secretarial work, project and conference management, publication issues and database administration.

For over 30 years, Dorothée Eichfelder fought for the cause of terminology in three specialized agencies of the United Nations, i.e. IAEA, UNIDO and UNESCO, where she first worked as a translator, subsequently reorganized and ran the respective terminology, documentation and reference services, finally developed and established in two instances a terminology and reference database in collaboration with a computer expert. She is still going strong, giving Infoterm a helping hand in all matters relating to their members and governing bodies.