Curriculum Vitae
Professor at Heidelberg University (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) since 2020
2020 Gorgias Teaching Award for Rhetoric and Didactics, awarded by the Faculty of Law at Leibniz University Hanover, see link and link
2016, 2019 Call on full professorships at the Universities of Mannheim and Kiel
2014-2020 German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR): Chair for Civil Law and Intellectual Property Law at the Institute for Legal Informatics at Leibniz University Hanover.
Member of the Learning Lab Lower Saxony in the field of Web Governance (since 2017)
2014 Call on full professorships at the Universities of Hanover and Regensburg
2014 Postdoctoral thesis "Schadensersatz im Unionsprivatrecht" [EN: "Damages in European Private Law"] at Hamburg University
2013-2014 Notary candidate in Hamburg
2008-2013 Research Fellow for Foreign and International Private Law at Max Planck Institute (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Basedow)
2007-2008 Visiting Researcher of the Graduate Program of Harvard Law School (Post-Doctoral Scholarship of the DAAD [EN: German Academic Exchange Service])
2007 PhD at Hamburg University (Otto Hahn Medal, Esche Schümann Commichau Award, GRUR Publication Support)
2005-2012 Lecturer and examiner at Hamburg University
2002-2007 Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Basedow)
2005 Second State Examination in Law, Hamburg
2002-2005 Legal clerkship in Hamburg
2001-2002 LL.M. studies at Cambridge University (DAAD scholarship [EN: German Academic Exchange Service], Freshfields European Prize for the Best Business Law Student 2001 and Foundress Prize of Pembroke College)
2001 First State Examination in Law, Hamm (Award for best examination results of the Münster Law Faculty 2001)
1996-2001 Studied law in Münster and Lausanne (scholarship of the Studienstiftung [EN: German Academic Scholarship Foundation])
1995 Abitur [EN: German A-levels] in Dortmund, Germany
1976 Born in Wiesbaden, Germany
Memberships
Chairman of the Board of the Deutsche Stiftung für Recht und Informatik (DSRI) [EN: German Foundation for Law and Information Technology]
Inter-University PhD Colloquium on the Law of the Information Society
GRUR Working Group “Procedural Law and Private International Law”
GRUR Expert Committee on Patent and Utility Model Law of the GRUR
International Advisory Panel of the Restatement of the Law (Fourth), Property
Advisory Board of the Competition Litigation Forum (CLF)
Founding member and member of the Board of Trustees of the Robotics and AI Law Society (RAILS)
German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
German Foundation for Law and Information Technology (DGRI)
German Society of International Law (DGIR)
German Association of Civil Law University Professors and Lecturers
German Association of Civil Procedure Law University Professors and Lecturers
German Society of Comparative Law
German Association of University Professors and Lecturers
DAAD [EN: German Academic Exchange Service] Circle of Friends
Friends and Sponsors of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes [EN: German Academic Scholarship Foundation]
