1. academic appointment

since 01.11.2022: Professor of Civil Law, Commercial and Business Law and Information Law, University of Oldenburg

2020-2022: Representative of the Department of Civil Law, Commercial and Business Law and Legal Informatics, University of Oldenburg

2019-2020: Visiting Professor at the University of Ghent

2014-2020: Professor of Civil Law, European Private Law and Consumer Law, University of Kassel

2010-2014: Associate Professor in European Private Law, University of Copenhagen

2003-2010: Junior Professor of Civil Law specialising in European Private Law, University of Bremen

2000-2003: Lecturer in European Private Law, University of Sheffield

1996-2000: Research Assistant to Prof. Dr Hans W. Micklitz, Chair of Private Law, in particular Commercial, Corporate and Economic Law (Jean Monnet Chair), University of Bamberg

Other activities

Member of the Consumer Advisory Board of BaFin

Expert opinions for the EU Commission, ministries, the GIZ, consumer organisations and associations

Expert in hearings of the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee

Seminars for the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), the German Federation of Consumer Organisations and Associations (vzbv) and other organisations

Further training for judges and civil servants at the German Judicial Academy, the Academy of European Law (ERA), in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Caucasus

Visiting professorships at the Universities of Ghent and Brescia, guest lecturer at the Summer School in Udine, as part of the Erasmus programme in Sheffield, Tallinn and Reykjavik as well as in Bologna and Mostar and DAAD short-term lecturer at Universitas Indonesia (Jakarta)

Reviewer for project proposals for the DFG, the BMJV and for research organisations in Belgium, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland and Estonia

Reviewer for journals and publishing houses

2. training

3 April 2002: Doctorate - topic: "Patent law and social policy under the TRIPS Agreement"

1994-1996: Legal clerkship at the OLG Bamberg

10 July 1996: Second State Examination

1988-1992: Law studies with additional training in economics at the University of Bayreuth

19 January 1993: First State Examination

18 August 1993: Completion of additional training in economics

June 1987: Abitur

3. shorter stays abroad

March 2023: Visiting professorship at the University of Brescia

Feb - March 2020: Visiting professor at the University of Ghent

Nov. - Dec. 2009: Senior Researcher at the centre of excellence "The Foundations of European Law and Polity", University of Helsinki

July - Aug. 2000: Research stay at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Aug - Sept 1999: DAAD short-term lectureship in consumer law at Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta

July 1998: Participation in the Session on Human Rights Law at the European University Institute, Florence

Dec. 1995 - March 1996: Traineeship abroad at the German Embassy in Kathmandu