Editing Irene Heim (section)

==Biography==
Heim's parents were German speakers born in [[Czechoslovakia]], who had emigrated to Germany after World War II. She attended school in [[Munich]], and studied at the [[University of Konstanz]] and the [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]], graduating from the latter in 1978 with an MA in Linguistics and Philosophy and a minor in mathematics. Following this, she studied for a PhD at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]], completing her dissertation in 1982.

After short-term postdoctoral positions at [[Stanford University]], [[MIT]], the [[University of Texas at Austin]] (1983-1987), and [[UCLA]], she took up a faculty position at [[MIT]] in 1987, receiving tenure as an associate professor in 1993 and becoming promoted to full professor in 1997.<ref name="biographicalnotes">{{cite encyclopedia| editor1-last=Crnič |editor1-first=Luka|editor2-last=Sauerland|editor2-first=Uli|last1=Crnič |first1=Luka|last2=Pesetsky|first2=David|last3=Sauerland|first3=Uli|author2-link=David Pesetsky |encyclopedia=The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim|url=https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/jZiNmM4N/CrnicPesetskySauerland.pdf |title=Introduction|publisher=MIT|year=2014|isbn= 9781502857477|location=Cambridge, MA}}</ref>