PLACE OF BIRTH

Soest, Westphalia

EDUCATION

• Studied in Münster, Nijmegen (NL) and Speyer
• Bennett and Robertson LLP, Edinburgh (GB)
• First State Exam in Law, Higher Regional Court Hamm
• Second State Exam in Law, Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf
• Doctorate on a copyright and personality law topic, Technical University Dresden, awarded the von Gerber Prize of the Faculty of Law

CAREER

• Research assistant at the Chair for Civil Law with special consideration of industrial property rights and copyright at the Technical University Dresden 
• Erasmus Coordinator of the Law Faculty of the Technical University Dresden
• Coordinator of the master's degree programme "International Studies in Intellectual Property Law"
• Com. Dean's Councilor of the Faculty of Law of the Technical University Dresden
• Member of various master examination boards 
• Equal Opportunities Officer of the Faculty of Law of the Technical University Dresden
• Managing Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Media Law if the Faculty of Law of the Technical Universty Dresden (IGEWeM, now IRGET)
• Chancellor at Palucca University of Dance Dresden

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Lectures, speeches and working groups on civil law, in particular on intellectual property law and personal rights as well as university law (e. g., TU Dresden; VWA Dresden; University of Exeter (GB), Nanterre Network of European law faculties, Paris (F), International Summer School PUCP, Lima (PER); Russian State Law University, Moscow (RUS))
• Lecturer in copyright and personality law at the Technical University Dresden