Academic Career

1996-01
Study of law at the University of Konstanz

1999-00
ERASMUS Scholarship for Complutense University Madrid

January 2002
First state law examination

2002-04
Law clerk at Berlin Appellate Court

May 2004
Second state law examination

since October 2004 
Research fellow at the Institute, 2004-2011 Head of the Centre of Expertise on Latin America

2009
PhD conferred (University of Regensburg), awarded Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society 

2012-13
Max Planck Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford

2020
Post-doctorate thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Regensburg

since 2008
Board member of the Deutsch-Brasilianische Juristenvereinigung (German-Brazilian Lawyers Association)

since March 2020
Head of the Centre for the Application of Foreign Law