Main Areas of Research:

Comparative Law, Legal Theory, European Private Law

Academic Career:

Born 8.6.1982 in Munich. 2001 to 2007 law studies at the FU Berlin, the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. 2003 to 2007 scholarship holder of the German National Merit Foundation. 2005 to 2007 participant at the Social Sciences Kolleg of the National Academic Foundation. 2007 First State Examination. 2007 to 2008 Magister Juris (M.Jur.) completed at the University of Oxford (St.John's College) as scholarship recipient of the Bucerius-Jura-Programm (ZEIT-Stiftung/German Nationla Academic Foundation). Since October 2008 academic staff member at the Institute under Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhard Zimmermann and research assistant for Prof. Stefan Vogenauer, Director at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford.