About the Person
- Born 26th January 1963
- Married, father of three grown children
Education and Work Experience (curriculum vitae PDF)
| Since September 2023 | Member of the “Commission de planification académique” of the Law Faculty of the University of Lausanne |
| Since August 2023 | Head of Research Center for Collective Labor Law and Participation (KOAMI) |
| January 2018 to August 2022 | Dean of Research at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel |
| Since February 2016 | Professor of Private Social Law at the University of Basel |
| July 2007 to January 2016 | FH Professorship at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Management and Law, Department of Business Law, Winterthur (Head of Research, Department of Business Law, Head of the Centre for Social Law, Lecturer for Labour, Social Security and European Law) |
| Since 2016 | President of the Swiss Section of International Society for Labour and Social Security Law (ISLSSL) |
| Since 2009 | Private lecturer for labour and social security law at the University of St. Gallen |
| November/December 2013 | Visiting Scholar at the "Institute for Labour Rights", UCL, London, England |
| 2008 to 2013 | Member and Vice-President of the Federal Commission for AIDS Research (EKAF; since 2020 called "Federal Commission for Questions on Sexually Transmitted Infections", EKSI) |
| August/September 2009 | Visiting Researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America |
| 2004 to 2009 | Habilitation at the University of St. Gallen |
| March to June 2007 | Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
| 2001 to 2007 | FH professorship at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) Switzerland, Olten |
| 2001 to 2006 | Freelancer at the Research Institute for Labour and Labour Law at the University of St. Gallen |
| 2000 to 2003 | Doctorate under Prof. Dr. iur. Thomas Geiser at the University of St. Gallen |
| 1988 to 2000 | Social worker and lawyer in various institutions of the health and social services |
| 1995 to 1999 | Law studies at the University of Freiburg FR |
| 1985 to 1988 | Training as social worker at the BFH Bern |
- President of the Swiss section of the "International Society for Labour Law and Social Security Law"
- Head of Continuing Education "Recht aktuell"
- Memberships:
- Editor of the journal Sozialversicherung und Berufliche Vorsorge (SZS)
- President of the Swiss Section of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law
- Publisher of the series Recht in privaten und öffentlichen Unternehmen
- Basler Juristenverein
- Demokratische Juristinnen und Juristen
- Schweizerischer Juristenverein
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Haftpflicht- und Versicherungsrecht
- Schweizerische Vereinigung für Sozialpolitik (SVSP)
- Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft (FAG)
- Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung e.V.
- African Labour Law Society
- Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung
- Labour law (including EU labour law and international labour law)
- Social security law
- Discrimination protection law
- Data protection law