Academic Career

1989-95
Legal studies Vienna and Innsbruck/Austria

1997-98
Master of International Business Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London/Great Britain

1999
Conferral of doctorate at the University of Innsbruck, Dissertation Topic: "The Concept of Freedom of Contract in Islamic and Western Legal Cultures"

since February 2000
Research Fellow responsible for the Law of Islamic Countries at the Institute

2000-01
Arabic language studies at the University of Damascus/Syria

2016
Post-doctorate thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Hamburg

since April 2009
Head of the Research Group: Changes in God's Law - An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws