Academic Activities
Since October 2025
Full Professor (W3), German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
Chair of Private Law and Regulation of the Digital Economy and Society
Since October 2025
Affiliated Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
2020 – 2025
Senior Research Fellow (permanent), DepartmentIntellectual Property and Competition Law, Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, LL.M. (Berkeley)
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition,
Munich
2020 – 2024
Lecturer in private law
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2020
Doctorate Humboldt University of Berlin, First reviewer: Prof. Dr. Heike Schweitzer, LL.M. (Yale)
2014 — 2020
Doctoral Candidate and Junior Research Fellow
Department Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Prof. Dr. Reto Hilty
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
2013
Second State Examination in Law (Ass. jur.), Berlin Court of Appeal (training placements, among others, at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology (Berlin) and the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission (Brussels))
2011
Master of Laws (LL.M.), Columbia University, New York
2009 — 2012
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter von Prof. Dr. Gregor Bachmann, LL.M. (Michigan), Freie Universität Berlin
2009
First State Examination in Law (Dipl.-Jur.), Free University of Berlin
2006
Master in Business Administration (Dipl.-Kfm.), University of Mannheim (one-year study visit at the University of South Australia, Adelaide)
Diploma thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Eichhorn
Awards
- Prize for good teaching from the University of Speyer for the 2024/25 winter semester
- Humboldt Prize 2020 for the dissertation “Information as Infrastructure”
- James Kent Scholar, Columbia Law School, New York (2010/2011)
- Humboldt Forum Law, Second Prize in the 7th Essay Competition: “Law in Times of Terror” (2008)
- Award for diploma thesis with the Barbara Hopf Foundation Prize (2007)
Scholarships & Fellowships
- VG WORT Science Fund, printing cost subsidy (2021)
- Transatlantic Digital Debates Fellow, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and Global Public Policy Institute, founding year (2016)
- Max Planck Society, research funding (2014–2015)
- ERP scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and the German National Academic Foundation for postgraduate studies in the USA (2010/2011)
- Scholarship from the State of Baden-Württemberg for studies in Australia (2004)
- Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation for studies in economics and law (2001–2006)
Academic memberships
- Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA)
- German-American Lawyers' Association (DAJV)
- German Association for Intellectual Property Law (GRUR), Data Law Committee
- Scientific Association for the Entirety of Regulatory Law
- Selection committees of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Expert Reviewer & Advisory Board Member
- Expert reviews for: European Law Journal; International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC); GRUR International; Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (YARS); International Journal of Law and Information Technology (IJLIT); Technovation; Computer Law & Security Review; Technology & Regulation; Journal of Competition Law & Economics
- Member of the Editorial Board: Technology & Regulation; Theory and Practice of Intellectual Property
- Selection committe of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Legal Policy Advise
Among others WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), United Nations,Appointment as international expert to support the development of Ukraine's national IP strategy
(Feb 2024 – Oct 2025); European Commission (DG CNECT; DG COMP), European Parliament; Center on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), Brussels; German Bundestag, Bundestag parliamentary groups, Federal Government (in particular BMJV, BMWK,
BMDV, BMI, Federal Chancellery); Senate Chancellery of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Office for IT and Digitalization)
