Main Focus
- Fundamental Rights and Human Rights (Concepts, Theory, and Doctrine)
- Constitutional Theory and Constitutional Law
- (Modern) Legal Theory, Socio-Legal Studies, and Legal Philosophy
- Democracy and Democratic Backsliding
- Foundations of Law and Legal Systems
- Digitalization & Datafication
- Artificial Intelligence and Law
Curriculum Vitae
Since 02/2024: Junior Professor for Public Law
Mannheim University, Faculty of Law
Since 09/2023: Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department of Public Law
2021–2022: Second State Examination Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Higher Regional Court)
01/2022–08/2022: Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Konstanz, Initiative of Excellence “Human | Data | Society”
2021: Doctorate (Dr. iur.), HHU Düsseldorf
summa cum laude
Doctoral
Thesis: Entzauberung des Rechts auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung:
Eine Untersuchung zu den Grundlagen der Grundrechte (Demystifying the
Right to Informational Self-Determination. An Investigation of the
Foundations of Fundamental Rights)
Supervisors: Prof. em. Dr. Martin Morlok; Prof. em. Dr. Helmut Frister
2021: Complementary studies: Legal issues of artificial intelligence (HHU Düsseldorf, Faculty of Law)
2019–2021: Legal Clerk
Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Higher Regional Court)
Traineeships (selection)
- Federal Constitutional Court (Department: President Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth)
- Federal Ministry of Justice (Departments for procedural criminal law)
2019–2020: Research Assistant at a large international law firm
2013–2019: Research Assistant
Chair for Criminal Law and Procedural Criminal Law (Prof. Dr. Helmut Frister)
HHU Düsseldorf
2013: First state examination, Düsseldorf
2007–2013: Law studies at the University of Passau and at HHU Düsseldorf
Awards
- Prize for the best dissertation in 2021 from the Faculty of Law, HHU Düsseldorf
- Prize for excellent dissertations (awarded by ‘Freundeskreis’ of the Düsseldorf Law Faculty e.V., 2022)