Curriculum Vitae

since 10/2008 University professor (W3) for civil law, private international law and comparative law, commercial and economic law at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum

7/2005-9/2008 University professor (W2) for civil law, commercial law and comparative law at Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen

4/2005-6/2005 Representation of a professorship for civil law and commercial law at Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen

12/2004-3/2005 Senior Assistant at the Faculty of Law, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen

1999-2004 Research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, European Legal History and Insurance Law at Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen; habilitation in Tuebingen on 6 July 2004 (habilitation thesis: ‘Sponsoring und andere Verträge zur Förderung überindividueller Zwecke’; habilitation lecture: ‘Grundlagen und Entwicklungstendenzen des europäischen Kollisionsrechts’); venia legendi for 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 Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen; doctorate on 11 February 1999 in Tuebingen (Ph.D. Thesis: ‘Haftung und Konkurrenzfragen bei mangelhaften Produkten und Bauwerken im deutschen und englischen Recht’)

1992-1993 Studies of Law at the University of Bristol/Great Britain; Master of Laws (LL.M.) 16th February 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 at the Law Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg and later at Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen

1987-1992 Studies of Law at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, founded by German National Scholarship Association, as from 1988; First State Examination in Law in Erlangen on 28th January 1992

1987 Abitur at Jacob Grimm School, Kassel

Membership in Scientific Organisations

• Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung
• Deutscher Juristentag e.V.
• Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht e.V. (German Association for Intellectual Property Law) (Mitglied des Fachausschusses Wettbewerbs- und Markenrecht; Mitglied des Fachausschusses Recht der Daten)
• European Law Institute
• Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung e.V. (German Society for Comparative Law)
• German-British Lawyers' Association e.V.
• Bochumer Kreis Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz e.V. (member of the board since 2015)
• Arbeitskreis Wettbewerbs- und Markenrecht Westfalen-Lippe
• Deutscher Hochschulverband