2004 - 2010

Deputy Head of the Department Environmental and Planning Law

2002 - 2010

Senior Researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ , Department of "Environmental and Planning Law"

1998 - 2002

Research assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Environmental and Planning Law at the University of Leipzig (Prof. Dr. Martin Oldiges)

1998

Employee at the RWTH Aachen, Institute for Mining Engineering I, Unit for Mining and Environmental Law (Prof. Dr. Walter Frenz)

1995 - 1997

Junior Lawyer at the district court in Hechingen; Second State Examination

1997

Ph.D. in Law with the thesis: Rights of Future Generations ("Rechte zukünftiger Generationen")

1992 - 1995

Member of the Ph.D.-Programme: "Ethics in the sciences and the humanities" at the University of Tübingen (funded by the German Science Foundation; DFG)

1987 - 1995

Study of philosophy, main subjects: philosophy of science, logic and ethics; M.A. with Master thesis: The Foundation of Individual Rights by Alan Gewirth ("Die Begründung von subjektiven Rechten bei Alan Gewirth")

1985 - 1991

Study of Law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and at the University of Leiden (NL); First State Examination