Main areas of teaching

• Civil Law
• Commercial Law and Corporate Law
• Civil Procedure, Enforcement Procedure and Insolvency Law
• Banking Law and Capital Markets Law

Lectures

• G1-1b Communication
• G1-1d Legal writing
• G4a Constitutional Law
• G4b Fundamentals of Civil Law
• G4c Fundamentals of Commercial and Company Law
• A3c Payment transactions
• W4a Corporate Law
• W4b Contract Management
• W4c Civil litigation, enforcementand bankruptcy law
• W4d Case studies on Financial Contracts

Curriculum vitae

• Studied law at the Universities of Bayreuth, Mainz and Austin, (Texas)
• Staff at the chairs of Prof. Dr. Mathias Habersack (University of Mainz), Prof. Dr. Jan Zopfs (University of Mainz) and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Harro Otto (University of Bayreuth)
• 1999: degree “Business lawyer (University of Bayreuth)”
• 2002: First legal state examination 
• 2005: Doctorate degree (Dr. iur) under Prof. Dr. Mathias Habersack at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• 2006: Second legal state examination
• 2007: Master of Laws (UT Austin)
• 2007: Lawyer in a law firm in Frankfurt a.M.; client delegation to the legal department of a commercial bank and a investment management company
• 2010: Legal department of the Deutsche Bundesbank, responsible for Monetary policy, securities settlement and capital markets law
• Since March 2018: Adjunct Lecturer at the Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences
• 2019: Delegation to the Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences
• Since March 2021: Professor at Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences

Research interests

• Law and regulation of capital market infrastructures
• Trading, clearing and settlement of financial transactions
• Contractual documentation of derivative transactions
• Investment law
• Central bank digital currency
• Electronic securities

Memberships

• German-American Lawyers Association e.V.
• Association of University Professors for Business Law