Curriculum Vitae

Employment

Since January 2019: Director of the Institute for Law and Digitalisation, University of Trier
Since November 2018: Director of the Institute for Legal Policy, University of Trier
Since March 2017: Professor at the Chair of Public Law, University of Trier
September 2016: offer of a chair of public law (W3) offered by the University of Trier
Summer Semester 2014 – Winter Semester 2016/17: Lecturer of Public Law and Public International Law at the Universities of Münster, Potsdam, Göttingen, Hannover and Jena
April 2011 – March 2017: Senior Research Fellow at the Chair of Public Law and Public International Law, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
May 2008 – March 2011: Senior Research Fellow at the Chair of Public Law, including Public International and European Law, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”)
Dec. 2006 – Dec. 2008: Research Assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court (Justice Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Di Fabio)
Oct. 2003 – May 2008: Research Fellow at the Chair of Public Law, including Public International and European Law, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Oct. 2002 – Jan. 2003: Detached National Expert at the European Commission, DG Enlargement

Education

June 2015: Habilitation in Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, thesis "Public International Law and Democracy - The Democratic Legitimacy of National and International Lawmaking"; lecturer ("venia legendi") in German and Comparative Public Law, Public International Law, European Law, and Law of Religion
Dec. 2007: Doctorate in Law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, thesis “Religious Freedom in Europe. The Individual Freedom of Religious Exercise in Great Britain, France, and Germany – A Comparison” Oct. 2003: Second Legal State Examination (Bar Exam Equivalent)
Febr. 2001: Magister Artium in History, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Sept. 2000: Maîtrise d’Histoire, University of Paris (Paris IV – Sorbonne)
Febr. 1999: First Legal State Examination
Sept. 1993 – Febr. 2001: Student of Law and History at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Münster, Cambridge (UK) and Paris (Paris IV – Sorbonne)

Awards

Member of the Network of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft "Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten im europäischen Mehrebenensystem – Konkurrenzen und Interferenzen“ (Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the European Multilevel System – Overlaps and Interferences) 2009 – 2011
Fellow of the SIAS Summer Institute "Comparative Perspectives on Federalism and the Separation of Powers" (Wissenschaftskolleg/National Humanities Center) 2009 – 2010
Scholar, Cusanuswerk (Catholic Academic Foundation) 2003 – 2006
Scholar, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) 1993 – 1999

Research Interests

Constitutional Law, European and Public International Law, Comparative Law, with particular focus on

Memberships

Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer
German Society of International Law German Section of the International Commission of Jurists
International Society of Public Law (ICON Society)
European Society of International Law (ESIL)
Interdisciplinary Institute of Automated Systems, Hannover (RifaS)