Academic Career

2005-2009
Study of law (Diplomstudium) at the University of Graz (ranked second in class)

2009-2013
Doctoral legal studies at the University of Graz (completed with honours)

2009-2012
Research Assistant at ECTIL under Prof. i.R. Dr. DDr. h.c. Helmut Koziol

2010-2012
University Assistant at the Institute for Civil Law, Foreign Law and Private International Law at the University of Graz under Prof. Dr. Peter Bydlinski

2010-2013
Lecturer at the University of Graz

2012-2013
DOC-Scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute for Civil Law, Foreign Law and Private International Law at the University of Graz

2013-2023
Senior Research Fellow in the working group of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Holger Fleischer, LL.M. (Univ. of Michigan), Dipl.-Kfm.

2014-2023
Head of Austria unit at the Institute

2017-2023
Lecturer at Bucerius Law School

2023
Post-doctorate thesis (Habilitation) at the Bucerius Law School

Awards

  • 2017: Research scholarship provided by the Heinrich Graf Hardegg’sche Foundation
  • 2015: Josef Krainer Promotional Award
  • 2015: Academic Prize of the Scherbaum Seebacher Law Firm
  • 2014: Wolf Theiss Award
  • 2013: Dissertation honoured as one of the best final papers of the Faculty of Law at the University of Graz
  • 2013: Award of the Arbeiterkammer Steiermark for Academic Theses
  • 2013: Award of Excellence of the Austrian Federal Mnistry of Education, Science and Research
  • 2012-2013: DOC scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • 2010: Award of the Arbeiterkammer Steiermark for Academic Theses
  • 2009: Thesis paper (Diplomarbeit) honoured as one of the best final papers of the Faculty of Law at the University of Graz
  • 2009: Ranked second among graduates of the Faculty of Law at the University of Graz
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