• Class of 1977
• 1997–2002 – Studied Law at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
• 1999–2002 – Scholarship holder of the Foundation of German Business (sdw)
• 2002 – First State Examination (Rector’s Examination Prize)
• 2002–2005 – Research assistant at the FSU
• 2002–2005 – PhD scholarship holder of the German Business Foundation (sdw)
• 2004 – LL.M.oec. (award from the Thuringian Working Group for Corporate and Insolvency Law e.V.)
• 2005–2007 – Trainee lawyer at the Kammergericht
• 2006 – PhD
• 2007 – Second State Examination in Law
• 2006–2007 – Worked at a Berlin law firm specialising in intellectual property and copyright law
• 2007–2015 – Research assistant and postdoctoral researcher at the Gerd Bucerius Chair of Civil Law with German and International Intellectual Property Law (Prof. Dr V. M. Jänich) at the University of Jena
• 2014 – Habilitation, qualification to teach and authorisation to lecture in Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, German and European Commercial Law, Intellectual Property Law, Medical Law and Private Insurance Law
• Summer semester 2015 – Acting chair at the Institute for German and Foreign Civil Procedure Law, Department 1, at the University of Freiburg
• Winter semester 2015/2016 – Temporary professorship in Civil Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
• Since the 2016 summer semester – Holder of the Chair of Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and IT Law at Leibniz University Hannover
• Since the summer semester 2023 – Dean of the School of Law

Prof Dr Eichelberger's research interests include civil law (in particular liability law), intellectual property and unfair competition law and medical law, as well as related areas of insurance law (in particular private health insurance law) and procedural law.

In addition to "classic" questions of these legal matters and their cross-references and influences on and on each other, a major focus of research is on the challenges posed by digitalisation, automation, "artificial intelligence" and innovation in general.

You can find the current list of publications by Prof Dr Eichelberger here: https://www.jura.uni-hannover.de/de/eichelberger/lehrstuhlinhaber/schriftenverzeichnis