Curriculum Vitae

WS 2019/2020	Guest professorship at WU Vienna on the topic of Family Businesses at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Susanne Kalss
February 2018	Call to the W3 Chair of Civil Law and Labour Law at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Bayreuth (declined)
Since April 2016	Holder of the Chair of Civil Law, Corporate Law (Labour and Company Law) and Family Business Law (original denomination: Chair of Civil Law, Family and Inheritance Law and Corporate Law) at the Faculty of Law of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
May 2014 - March 2016	Holder of the WIFU Endowed Chair for Business Law, Labour Law and Family Business Law at the Faculty of Economics at Witten/Herdecke University; funded by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
November 2015	Call to the W3 Chair of Civil Law, Family and Inheritance Law and Corporate Law (early succession Muscheler) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
February 2014	Habilitation by the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Bayreuth; venia legendi for the subjects of Civil Law, Labour Law, Commercial and Corporate Law and Capital Market Law; topic of the habilitation thesis “Interim Management” (published in February 2015 by Mohr Siebeck in the series Jus Privatum); topic of the habilitation lecture "Interne Vertriebsvorgaben in der Anlageberatung – aufsichtsrechtliche und zivilrechtliche Grenzen"
January 2014	Call to the WIFU Endowed Chair at Witten/Herdecke University (W3 equivalent) for Commercial Law, Labour Law and Family Business Law
January 2012 - February 2014	Habilitation candidate at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth
June - September 2011	Stay abroad at the University of California (Irvine)
October 2009	Doctor iuris (Dr. iur.); Topic of the Dissertation „Das Verbot der geltungserhaltenden Reduktion“ (summa cum laude); published March 2010 by Mohr Siebeck in the series Studien zum Privatrecht
June 2006	Second state examination in law
December 2005 - April 2014	Research Assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, Labour Law, Tax Law and Social Law at the University of Bayreuth (Prof. Dr. Karl-Georg Loritz) with affiliated research center for Investment Law as well as German and international Corporate Tax Law
October 2009 - February 2013	Legal advice for students at the universities of Bayreuth, Hof and Coburg on behalf of the Studentenwerk Oberfranken for 3 hours per week
April 2004 - May 2006	Legal preparations service at the Bamberg Higher Regional Court
January 2004	First state examination in law
April 2003	Completion of the additional degree in economics with the title of business lawyer at the University of Bayreuth
1998 - 2003	Studies in law with additional studies in economics at the University of Bayreuth
1998	High School Diploma (Abitur) at Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz