About
Career history
YEAR | POSITION |
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Since August 2019 | Assistant Professor of Tax Law with Tenure Track at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel (50 %) |
2018-2019 | Assistant lecturer for Tax Law at the law faculty of the University of Basel |
Since March 2016 | Partner at Altenburger Ltd. legal + tax |
Since 2013 | Lecturer, Swiss Institute for Taxation |
2012-2016 | Lawyer at Tappolet & Partner, Zurich |
2010/2011-2012 | Visiting researcher at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
2006-2009 | Lawyer at Lenz & Staehelin, Zurich |
2003-2005 | Substitute at Lenz & Staehelin, Zürich |
Education
YEAR | POSITION |
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2015 | Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at the University of Bern; summa cum laude, awarded with the Professor Walther Hug Prize 2017. Title: International Tax Cooperation - the Sovereignty Conflict Between the Residence and the Source Country; supervised by Prof. Dr. iur. René Matteotti and Prof. Diane M. Ring. |
2010-2011 | LL.M. Studies at Columbia Law School in New York, USA; awarded as James Kent Scholar |
2008 | Swiss certified tax expert (specialization in international tax law) |
2006 | Admission as a lawyer in the canton of Zurich |
1998-2003 | Studied law at the University of Freiburg i.Ue. |
2001-2001 | Erasmus academic year, Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg III, France |
1998 | Matura type B (with Latin), cantonal school at Burggraben, St. Gallen |
- Membership International Fiscal Association (IFA)
- Member of the Executive Board Institut für Schweizerisches und Internationales Steuerrecht
- Co-publisher Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches und Internationales Steuerrecht (ZSiS) (seit August 2019)
- Membership Schweizerischer Juristenverein (SJV)
- Membership Schweizerischer Anwaltsverband (SAV)
- Membership Fachausschuss Steuerrecht des Schweizerischen Anwaltsverbands
- Membership Zürcher Anwaltsverband (ZAV)
- Membership Cavelti AG, Familienunternehmen im Bereich Druck und digitale Medien (seit 2016)
- International tax law
- Swiss tax law
- Tax Policy
- The influence of digitisation on tax law
- Legal Theory and Methodology in Tax Law