Main Areas of Research:

German, European and U.S. Financial Law and Corporate Law

Academic Career:

Student intern with the Dresdner Bank AG (1996-1998). Intermediate diploma in economics, HU Berlin (1998). First State Examination in Law, Heidelberg (2000). Research Associate at the Institute (2000 - 2004). LL.M., The University of Chicago (2002) - Scholarship Recipient of the German National Academic Foundation and the ZEIT Foundation. Second State Examination in Law, Hamburg (2004). Senior Research Fellow at the Institute since 2004. Working Group Member on the Commission of Exchange Experts under the Federal Ministry of Finance (2004-2005). Advisory Counsel to the Federal Ministry of Finance regarding prospectus liability (Spring 2005). Doctorate conferred (2005) - Recipient of the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science and the Academic Award 2005 (1st Place) of the Deutsches Aktieninstitut. Admitted to the New York State Bar as Attorney at Law (2005). Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (Spring 2006 and Fall 2008). Short-Term-Expert of the EU for takeover law harmonisation in Turkey (2006-2007). Post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitation) under Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Klaus J. Hopt (currently) - Scholarship Recipient of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (since 2009).