2021 Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (England)
November 2019 Scholar-in-residence at the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law of New York University School of Law (United States)
Since 2017 National Correspondent for Switzerland at UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission for International Trade Law)
Since 2017 Full Professor of Private Law at the University of Basel (Switzerland)
Since 2012 Honorary Fellow, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, University of Hong Kong (China)
2012–2017 Full Professor with tenure at the University of Mannheim (Germany)
Chair for Private Law, International Corporate and Financial Markets Law, European Business Law
Director of the Institute for Corporate Law at the University of Mannheim (IURUM)
Senior Member of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI)
2011/2012 Received offers of
the Chair for Private Law, Commercial and Business Law, in particular Company and Capital Markets Law at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (declined) and of
the Chair for Private Law, International Corporate Law and European Business Law at the University of Mannheim (accepted)
2011 Acting Professor at the University of Münster (Germany) and then at the University of Mannheim (Germany)
February 2011 Habilitation by the Faculty of Law of Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Professorial thesis: Ratings – Bonitätsbeurteilungen durch Dritte im System des Finanzmarkt-, Gesellschafts- und Vertragsrechts. Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung [Ratings – Creditworthiness Assessments by Third Parties within the System of Financial Markets Law, Company Law and Contract Law. A Comparative Law Treatise]
Granted the venia legendi for Private Law, Commercial Law, Company Law, International Private Law and Comparative Law
September/October 2009 and May 2010 Visiting Scholar at New York University School of Law (U.S.A.)
February/March 2009 Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (China), Asian Institute of International Financial Law
Winter Term 2005/06 Research Assistant, since Summer Term 2006 Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Dept. II of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Director: Prof. Dr. Hanno Merkt, LL.M.)
2004–2005 Research Assistant at the Institute for the Legal Profession of Humboldt University Berlin (Director: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Singer)
Lecturer in Law at Humboldt University Berlin
admitted as Attorney to the Berlin Bar
2004 Second State Examination in Law in Berlin
2002–2004 Judicial traineeship (Rechtsreferendariat) at the Court of Appeals Berlin; including various positions in Berlin, at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and the German Consulate General in Hong Kong (China)
2003 Granted the academic title Doctor iuris with highest honors (summa cum laude) by the Freie Universität Berlin based on the doctoral thesis UN-Kaufrecht und Europäisches Gemeinschaftsrecht – Verhältnis und Wechselwirkungen [UN Sales Law (CISG) and European Community Law – Relationship and Interaction] supervised by Prof. Dr. Helmut Grothe
2000–2002 Holder of a full research scholarship awarded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft); Member of the Graduate College "European Private and Business Law" at Humboldt University Berlin
1998–1999 Thirteen-month trip around the world
1998 First State Examination in Law in Freiburg
1995–1998 Student research assistant at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Dept. I of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Schlechtriem, M.C.L.)
1992–1998 Law studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Germany) and at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland)