• 2008-2013: Law studies in Bochum and Budapest
• 2013-2015: Research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, German and International Business Law, in particular IT Law, Ruhr University Bochum
• 2014-2015: Managing Director of the working group Identity Protection on the Internet (a-i3), Bochum
• 2015-2016: Research assistant in the "Privacy & Cybersecurity" department at Hogan Lovells, Düsseldorf
• 2016-2018: Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm with stations at the Economic Department of the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Data Protection Department of the European Commission in Brussels, among others
• 2018: Doctorate on the topic of "Data processing in social networks"
• Since 2018: Lawyer and authorised signatory in the "IT, IP & Data Protection" department at PwC Legal (until 2021), then Of Counsel at PwC since 2022
• Since 2019: Member of the editorial board of the trade journal "Datenschutz-Berater"
• Since 2020: Lecturer for data protection law at the Open University in Hagen
• Since 2022: Professor of Business Law, in particular Digitalisation Law, at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences - FH Aachen

Prof Dr Alexander Golland's research focuses on fundamental questions of data protection law, such as the material and geographical scope of application, responsibility, the lawfulness of data processing and international data transfers. In particular, he analyses the legal requirements and their impact on innovative technologies such as connected cars, smart home devices and artificial intelligence. He also researches telemedia law and IT security law as well as the regulation of digital services and digital platforms.
He is a speaker at conferences and the editor and author of numerous publications on German and European data protection law. In 2021, Alexander Golland was appointed as an expert for the Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG) by the Economic Committee of the German Bundestag.

• Commentary on § 7 and § 26 of the Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act, in: Riechert/Wilmer (eds.), Telekommunikation-Telemedien-Datenschutzgesetz, Berlin 2022
• Commentary on Sections 6 to 10 of the EKD Data Protection Act, in: Wagner (ed.), Data Protection Law of the Protestant Church, Baden-Baden 2022
• Commentary on Articles 94 to 99 of the General Data Protection Regulation in: Taeger/Gabel (ed.), GDPR - BDSG - TTDSG, 4th edition, Frankfurt am Main 2022
• The Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act, in: NJW 2021, pp. 2238-2243
• Data protection requirements for international data transfers, in: NJW 2020, pp. 2593-2596
• "Private" data processing on the internet, in: ZD 2020, pp. 397-403
• Church data protection law. General Data Protection Regulation, data protection regulations of the churches in Germany, implementing regulations and procedural laws, 2nd ed., Frankfurt am Main 2020
• Data protection issues relating to personalised prices, in: CR 2020, pp. 186-194
• Data protection regulation as an intervention in value creation models, in: Ochs/Friedewald/Hess/Lamla (eds.), Zukunft der Datenökonomie, Wiesbaden 2019, pp. 45- 68
• Dynamic pricing: algorithms between economics and data protection, in: Taeger (ed.), Die Macht der Daten und Algorithmen, Edewecht 2019, pp. 61-75
• Scope of joint controllership: New questions of joint responsibility, in: K&R 2019, pp. 533-537
• Data processing in social networks (diss.), Frankfurt am Main 2019
• Joint controllership in multi-stage processing scenarios, in: K&R 2018, pp. 433-438
• The territorial scope of application of the GDPR, in: DuD 2018, p. 351-357
• The prohibition of tying in the General Data Protection Regulation, in: MMR 2018, p. 130-135