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 positions

Honorary Marcel Storme Chair in European and International Procedural Law 2019/2020, Ghent University

Expert reports for the EU, government departments, 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 in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans

Visiting lecturer at the Summer School in Udine and, as part of the Erasmus programme, in Sheffield, Tallinn and Reykjavik

Member of the BaFin Consumer Advisory Board

2. Education

3 April 2002: PhD – Topic: ‘Patent law and social policy under the TRIPS Agreement’

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

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

2020: Visiting professor in Ghent

Nov. – Dec. 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

August – September 1999: DAAD short-term lecturing post in consumer law at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta

July 1998: Participation in 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