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Career history

YEARPOSITION
Since August 2019Assistant Professor of Tax Law with Tenure Track at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel (50 %)
2018-2019Assistant lecturer for Tax Law at the law faculty of the University of Basel
Since March 2016 Partner at Altenburger Ltd. legal + tax
Since 2013Lecturer, Swiss Institute for Taxation
2012-2016Lawyer at Tappolet & Partner, Zurich
2010/2011-2012Visiting researcher at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
2006-2009Lawyer at Lenz & Staehelin, Zurich
2003-2005Substitute at Lenz & Staehelin, Zürich
 

Education

YEARPOSITION
2015Doctorate (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.
2010-2011LL.M. Studies at Columbia Law School in New York, USA; awarded as James Kent Scholar
2008Swiss certified tax expert (specialization in international tax law)
2006Admission as a lawyer in the canton of Zurich
1998-2003Studied law at the University of Freiburg i.Ue.
2001-2001Erasmus academic year, Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg III, France
1998Matura type B (with Latin), cantonal school at Burggraben, St. Gallen
  • International tax law
  • Swiss tax law
  • Tax Policy
  • The influence of digitisation on tax law
  • Legal Theory and Methodology in Tax Law