Academic Career

1991-93
Studies of Law at the Maximilians-Universität in Wuerzburg

1993-96
Studies of Law and Sinology at the University of Hamburg,

Magister Artium November 2007,

First state examination in Hamburg (November 1996),

Scholarship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for language studies and research at the University of Nanjing (November 1996-September 1997),

Law clerk in Hamburg (April 1998-July 2000),

Second state examination in Hamburg (July 2000),

Ph.D.-scholarship awarded by the DAAD for research at the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Nanjing (September 2000-August 2002),

Junior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (August 2001-July 2002).

since August 2002
Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

2003
Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg

September 2004 to March 2005
Scholarship awarded by the Korea Legislation Research Institute (KLRI) for language studies and research at the Yonsei University in Seoul, Republic of Korea

2005-2007
Lecturer on Chinese law and governance at the International Center for Graduate Studies (ICGS) at the University of Hamburg

March 2007
Guest lecturer on Chinese business law at the City University of Hong Kong

November 2008 to January 2009
Research at the KLRI in Seoul

since 2007
Lecturer on Chinese Law at the University of Goettingen

since 2011
Lecturer on Chinese Law at the University of Cologne

2013
post-doctorate thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Goettingen

Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (October 2014 to March 2015)

Visiting Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School in New York (October 2015)

since Mai 2017
Professor at the University of Goettingen Professor an der Universität Göttingen. In November 2017 Visiting Lecturer on civil procedure law at Nanjing University.