10/2008 Appointment as university professor (W3) for civil law, private international law and comparative law, commercial and business law at the Ruhr University Bochum
7/2005 Appointment as university professor (W2) for civil law, commercial law and comparative law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen
4/2005-6/2005 Representation of a professorship for civil law and commercial law at the Georg-August-University Göttingen
12/2004-3/2005 Senior Assistant at the Faculty of Law of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
1999-2004 Research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, European Legal History and Insurance Law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; habilitation in Tübingen on 6 July 2004 (habilitation thesis: ‘Sponsoring und andere Verträge zur Förderung überindividueller Zwecke’; habilitation lecture: ‘Grundlagen und Entwicklungstendenzen des europäischen Kollisionsrechts’); awarded authorisation to teach civil law, private international law, comparative law, European law and commercial law, in particular intellectual property law and copyright law.
1995-1999 Research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, European Legal History and Insurance Law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; doctorate on 11 February 1999 in Tübingen (dissertation: ‘Liability and competition issues in the case of defective products and buildings in German and English law’)
1992-1993 Studied at the University of Bristol/Great Britain; Master of Laws (LL.M.) 16.02.1994
1992, 1993-1995 Legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg; Second State Examination in Law on 30 August 1995 in Munich; part-time research assistant and proofreading assistant at the Law Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
1987 Abitur at the Jacob Grimm School, Kassel