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Since 02/2021Professor of Private Law with a focus on Life Sciences Law and Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel
11/2025Habilitation as Professor for Private Law, Intellectual Property Law, Competition Law and Information Law at
the Law Faculty of the University of Basel
01/2020 -
06/2022
Member OECD Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB)
01/2019 - 12/2019Fellow of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), University of Zurich
06/2018 - 08/2018Research stay at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin
04/2016 - 12/2020Managing Director of the Center for Information Technology, Society, and Law (ITSL) at the University of Zurich, from 08/2019 Scientific Managing Director
Since 05/2014Co-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
01/2014Admitted to the bar of the Canton of Zurich
12/2012 - 02/2013Trainee 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 - 02/2011Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
04/2004 - 04/2007Assistant and research assistant at the Chair of Intellectual Property Law of Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty, University of Zurich
10/2001 - 12/2006Studied law at the University of Zurich
08/1996 - 01/2001Cantonal school MNG Rämibühl, Zurich
08/1998 - 07/1999Norton High School, Massachussetts, USA
      • AIPPI - Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (Board member)
      • 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 Former Employees 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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