1. Professional career

Since 1 November 2022: Professor of Civil Law, Commercial and Business Law, and Information Law, University of Oldenburg

2020–2022: Acting Head of the Department of Civil Law, Commercial and Economic Law, and Legal Informatics, University of Oldenburg

2019–2020: Visiting Professor at Ghent University

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

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

2003–2010: Junior Lecturer in 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, Company and Economic Law (Jean Monnet Chair), University of Bamberg

Other activities

Member of the BaFin Consumer Advisory Board

Expert reports for the European Commission, government ministries, the GIZ, consumer organisations and associations

Expert witness at hearings of the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee

Seminars for the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), the Federal Association of Consumer Centres and Consumer Organisations (vzbv) and other organisations

Training for judges and civil servants at the German Judges’ Academy, the European Law Academy (ERA), in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Caucasus

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

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

Reviewer for journals and publishers

2. Education

3 April 2002: PhD – Topic: “Patent Law and Social Policy under the TRIPS Agreement”

1994–1996: Legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court of Bamberg

10 July 1996: Second State Examination

1988–1992: Studied Law with supplementary training in economics at the University of Bayreuth

19 January 1993: First State Examination

18 August 1993: Completion of supplementary training in economics

June 1987: Abitur

3. Short stays abroad

March 2023: Visiting professorship at the University of Brescia

Feb. – March 2020: Visiting professorship at Ghent University

November–December 2009: Senior Researcher at the centre of excellence ‘The Foundations of European Law and Polity’, University of Helsinki

July – August 2000: Research stay at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Aug. – Sept. 1999: DAAD short-term teaching post in consumer law at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta

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

Dec. 1995 – March 1996: Post abroad as part of my legal traineeship at the German Embassy in Kathmandu