Curriculum vitae
- Born 1971;
- First Juridical State Examination, University of Bonn (Germany), 1995;
- Legal Traineeship, 1996-98;
- Dr. iur., University of Bonn, 1997;
- Second Juridical State Examination, 1998;
- Research Fellow, 1999-2000;
- Associate Professor, Institute for Public Law, University of Bonn, Feb. 2000-Oct. 2004 and Aug. 2005-Jul. 2006;
- Dr. rer. pol., University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich (Germany), 2002;
- Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo, 2003;
- Member of the Ethics Committee, School of Medicine, University of Bonn, 2003-present;
- Visiting Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, 2004-2005;
- Head of the BMBF Research Group “Norm-Setting in the Modern Life Sciences”, 2006-2015;
- Habilitation and venia legendi for Public Law, European Law, International Economic Law, and Biotechnology Law, 2008;
- Extraordinary Professor, University of Bonn, 2009-present;
- Member of the DFG Permanent Senate Commission on Genetic Research, 2010-2017;
- Member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the Human Brain Project, 2014-present;
- Lawyer at RITTERSHAUS, 2016-present;
- Member of the Animal Protection Commission (LANUV) in North Rhine-Westphalia.
More than 350 publications on German Administrative and Constitutional Law, International Biomedical and Biotechnology Law, Intellectual Property Law.