Born 1964; 1984 - 1990 studied law in Passau and Geneva; doctorate in 1992, dissertation on international consumer protection law honoured with the East Bavarian Culture Prize; 1994 - 1996 and 1998 - 2000 research assistant at the Institute of International Law - Comparative Law - at the University of Munich; 1997/1998 lawyer in a commercial law firm in Munich, specialising in distribution law, antitrust law and IT law.; 2000/2001 Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford (Linacre College), 2001/2002 Visiting Research Fellow and Feodor Lynen Fellow at the Institute for Global Law at University College London, February 2003 habilitation at the University of Munich, 2003/2004 professorship in Munich and at the University of Heidelberg (Institute for Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law); 2003 successful completion of the examen d'aptitude for admission to the French Bar (Paris); member of the supervisory boards of two public limited companies in the telecommunications and software sectors. software industry. From December 2006 to July 2013, part-time judge at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm (18th Civil Senate). Guest researcher at the University of Basel in the 2008 summer term(http://ius.unibas.ch/forschung/gastwissenschaftlerin/).