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Since 02/2021Professor of Private Law with a focal area of Life Sciences Law and Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel
Since 01/2020Member OECD Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB)
01/2019 - 12/2019

Fellow of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), University of Zurich

06/2018 - 08/2018

Research stay at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin

04/2016 - 12/2020

Managing Director of the Center for Information Technology, Society, and Law (ITSL) at the University of Zurich, academic managing director from 08/2019

Since 05/2014

Co-Managing Director and since 12/2018 sole Managing Director and since 09/2021 Board Member of the Swiss Forum for Communication Law (SF-FS)

04/2014 - 02/2016Attorney at law at Schellenberg Wittmer, Zurich
01/2014

Admitted to the bar of the Canton of Zurich

12/2012 - 02/2013

Trainee at Schellenberg Wittmer, Zurich

04/2007 - 08/2011Doctorate University of Zurich / Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
02/2011 - 06/2012Clerk and court clerk at the District Court of Zurich
04/2007 - 02/2011Academic project assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
04/2004 - 04/2007Student assistants and research associates at the Chair of Intellectual Property Law of Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty, University of Zurich
10/2001 - 12/2006Studies of law at the University of Zurich
08/1996 - 01/2001

Cantonal school MNG Rämibühl, Zurich

08/1998 - 07/1999

Norton High School, Massachussetts, USA

      • ATRIP - International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property
      • ingres - Institute for the Protection of Intellectual Property
      • LES Switzerland - Licensing Executives Society
      • MPI Alumni - Friends and co-workers of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition e.V.
      • SCNAT - Forum Genetic Research, Academy of Natural Sciences, Switzerland
      • SF-FS - Swiss Forum for Communication Law (Managing Director)
      • unibas RDS - Responsible Digital Society
      • UZH BCC - Blockchain Center of the University of Zurich
      • UZH DSI - Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich
      • ZAV/SAV - Zurich and Swiss Bar Association
        • Life sciences law
        • Law of the digital society
        • Innovation and creation protection law
        • Competition law

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