Professional Career

• Legal studies in Tübingen and Munich, scholar of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
• Academic senior councilor („akademischer Oberrat“) at the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU), Trier, Germany.
• Feodor Lynen Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
• Doctorate („Promotion") and postdoctoral lecture qualification („Habilitation"), Trier, Germany.
• Chair of Civil Law, Labour Law and Comparative Law at the FernUniversität Hagen, Germany.
• Director of the Institute of German and European Labour and Social Law (IDEAS) at the FernUniversität Hagen, Germany.
• Since 2009: Chair of Labour Law at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
• Lectures: Europe, US, Japan, China, South Korea, South Africa.

Memberships/other activities

• Member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) of the ILO
• Coordinator of the European Labour Law Network (ELLN).
• Coordinator and member of the ELLN´s study group on a Restatement of European Labour Law.
• Coordinator of the European Centre of Expertise in the field of labour law, employment and labour market policy (ECE).
• Chairman of the German chapter of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law (ISLSSL/IGRASS).
• Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law (ISLSSL).
• Member of the advisory committee of the Labour Law Research Network.
• Co-editor of the Studies in Labour Law and Comparative Labour Law („Studien zum Arbeitsrecht und zur Arbeitsrechtsvergleichung“), published by Peter Lang-International Academic Publishers, Frankfurt am Main.
• Co-editor of the Social Europe Series, published by Intersentia Publishing House.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the European Labour Law Journal, Sage Publishing.
• Member of the advisory board of the German Journal of Industrial Relations (“Industrielle Beziehungen – Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management“), published by Rainer Hampp Publishing Company.
• Member of the advisory board of the German Review of Social Policy („Sozialer Fortschritt – Unabhängige Zeitschrift für Sozialpolitik“), Duncker & Humblot Publishing Company.
• Member of the advisory board of the Journal Monitor Prawa Pracy.
• Member of the Council of Editors of Lex Russica.
• Member of the advisory board of the Hugo Sinzheimer Institut of Labour Law (HSI).
• Regular contributor of the Journal „Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft – RIW“.
• Member of the advisory board of the International Journal of Legislative Drafting and Law Reform.
• Third Party Projects: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Jean Monnet Programme, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Böckler Stiftung, Hugo Sinzheimer Stiftung a.o.
• Counsel at the German Parliament.
• Counsel at the Legislative Affairs Committee of the National People´s Congress (People's Republic of China).