Judith Tonhauser is a professor of English linguistics at the University of Stuttgart. She investigates natural language meaning using a combination of behavioral experiments and theoretical modeling.  She received her PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 2006 and a Diploma in computational linguistics from the University of Stuttgart in 2000. She was an Assistant, Associate and Full professor at The Ohio State University from 2006 to 20019, and a visiting researcher at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 2013-14 and at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft from 2014-15. She started serving as Vice Rector for Early Career Researchers and Diversity at the University of Stuttgart in 2024.