| April – June 2019 | Research stay at the Institute for European Tort Law (ETL), Vienna |
| January – June 2015 | Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge |
| August 2015 – July 2017 | Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Basel |
| since February 1, 2013 | Professor (Full Professor) of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law |
| February 2012 – July 2015 | Chair of the subject area Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Basel |
| August 2010 | Appointment as Associate Professor of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Basel |
| HS 2008/FS 2009 | Visiting professor and substitute professor in private law at the University of Zurich |
| November 2008 | Received the venia docendi for private law, comparative law and private international law from the University of Basel |
| since 2008 | Lecturer for "English for Lawyers" at the Europa Institut Zurich and at the University of Zurich as part of the LL.M. program "International Business Law" |
| 2005 – 2009 | Attorney at Holzach Partner, Basel; 2010: Attorney at Lenz Caemmerer, Basel |
| 2004 | Bar exam Canton of Basel-Stadt |
| from 2002 | Various teaching assignments at the Universities of Basel and St. Gallen in the areas of the law of obligations, liability law and Anglo-American private law |
| 2002 – 2003 | Traineeship at the District Court of Laufen/BL and at VISCHER Attorneys and Notaries, Basel |
| 2002 | Doctorate in law (summa cum laude); awarded the Amerbach Prize of the University of Basel 2003/2004 and the Walther Hug Prize for Dissertations 2004 |
| 1999 – 2001 | Research associate at the chair of Prof. Ingeborg Schwenzer, Faculty of Law, University of Basel |
| from 1996 | Student assistant to Prof. Frank Vischer, Basel |
| 1993 – 1998 | Studies of law at the law faculties of the University of Basel and Neuchâtel; Licentiate (summa cum laude) |
| 1992 | Maturität type B, high school Münchenstein/BL |
| 1974 | Born in Watford (England); grew up in England and Binningen; schools in England, Binningen and Münchenstein |
