| since 2020 | Visiting professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre, France |
| since 2015 | Co-Director of the Institute for Notarial Law at the University of Göttingen |
| since 2015 | Visiting professor at the Universitetet i Bergen, Norway |
| 2017 | Visiting professor at the Chuo-Universität, Tokio, Japan |
| 2011 | Rejection of a call to the University of Regensburg |
| 2007 - 2014 | Representative of the university for cooperation with the Baltic
Federal Immanuel Kant University, Kaliningrad, Russia and representative of the faculty for cooperation with the Faculty of Law there |
| 2007 - 2009 | Member of the Preparatory Committee and the Board of the
Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the University of Göttingen |
| since 2006 | Founding director and member of the Center for Medical Law at the University of Göttingen |
| 2005 - 2007 | Dean of the Faculty of Law (SS 2005 - WS 2006/2007) |
| since 2002 | Regular research stays in Japan, Norway and Estonia |
| since 2000 | Full Professor of Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, Medical Law and Comparative Law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
| 1999 - 2000 | Deputy Professorship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in winter semester 1999/ 2000 |
| 1999 | Habilitation at the University of Mannheim in civil law, civil procedural law, private international law and comparative law |
| 1997 & 1999 | Research stays at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London (UK) |
| 1994 | Doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Mannheim |
| 1991 - 1999 | Research associate and research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law and Civil Procedure Law at the University of Mannheim (Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Pawlowski) |
| 1991 | Second state examination in law (Baden-Württemberg) |
| 1988 | First state examination in law (Mannheim) |
| 1982 - 1988 | Studied law in Mannheim, Heidelberg and Göttingen |
