Main Areas of Research:

European private law (contract and tort law), company law and commercial law

Academic Career:

Born May 5th 1978 in Vienna/Austria. Law studies at Vienna University, law school (1996 – 2001). Introduction to Capital Markets and Investments, Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.)/USA (1996). Erasmus studies at the Università Cattolica, Milan/Italy (2000 – 2001). Research Associate (professor Helmut Koziol), European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) Vienna/Austria (2000 – 2003). Graduation (Dr. iur.), Vienna University, Vienna/Austria (2005). Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (professor Reinhard Zimmermann), Hamburg/Germany (2005 – 2007). Max Planck Fellow, University of Oxford, Institute of European and Comparative Law (Professor Stefan Vogenauer) & St. Catherine's College, Oxford/UK (2007 – 2008). Visiting Professor (short term), Università Luigi Bocconi, Milan/Italy (2008). Senior Research Fellow at the Institute as of January 2009. Member of the Council of the European Law Institute (ELI) since 2011. Languages: German, English, French, Italian.