Since November 2021: Professor of law at Leibniz University, Hannover/Germany

June 2021 – August 2022: Fellow (non-resident) of the Stanford Transatlantic Technology Law Forum, Stanford Law School, Stanford/USA

since 2021: Honorary professor at Zurich University (Switzerland)

May 2018: Scholar-in-residence at NYU School of Law’s Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law, New York/USA

since Spring 2018: NYU School of Law (New York), Global Professor of Law at the “NYU Law in Paris” program

since May 2016: Visiting professor at the Università di Verona (Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche), Verona/Italy

December 2015: Call (offer of a tenured position) for post as a professor of law (chair of Private Law, European and International Commercial Law), University of Leipzig (Juristenfakultät)

May 2014: Habilitation at the University of Zurich Law School, Zurich/Switzerland; Venia legendi awarded for private law, international private law, comparative law, trade law, economic law, and intellectual property law

August 2011 until December 2011: Global Fellow from Practice & Government at the Hauser Global Law School Program of NYU School of Law, New York/USA; faculty sponsor: Barton Beebe

August 2011 – October 2021: Professor of Law at Leuphana Law School, Lüneburg/Germany

August 2008 until July 2009: SPILS Fellow at Stanford Law School, Stanford/USA; research scholarship awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG); faculty supervisor: Mark A. Lemley

July 2006 until July 2011: Judge and public prosecutor (IP, banking, and insurance law) at the District Court of Stuttgart/Germany, and in the Department of Justice

July 2004 until June 2006: Attorney-at-law in the IP and litigation department, Gleiss Lutz Lawyers, Stuttgart/Germany

November 2004: Ph.D. awarded, University of Tübingen/Germany; topic: Kaufpreiszahlung auf Notaranderkonto; supervisor: Wolfgang Ernst (highest distinction: summa cum laude)

August 2003 until June 2004: senior research associate, University of Augsburg/Germany

August 2002 until July 2003: Columbia University, New York/USA, LL.M. (highest distinction: James Kent Scholar); bar exam (attorney-at-law), New York/USA

October 2001 until July 2002: research associate, University of Tübingen

October 1999 until October 2001: practical training (Referendariat) at the District Court of Tübingen/Germany; stages inter alia with Clayton Utz Lawyers, Sydney/Australia

October 2001:Second state exam (bar equivalent) at the Circuit Court (OLG) of Stuttgart/Germany (result: top 1% state wide)

April 1995 until June 1999: Studies of law and economics; First State Exam (J.D. equivalent), University of Tübingen (result: top 1% state wide)