• Born in Sindelfingen/Germany;
  • School education in Munich and Salzburg;
  • Law degrees from the University of Salzburg (Mag. iur. 1992; Dr. iur. 1997) and the University of Texas School of Law, Austin (LL.M. 1997, Fulbright scholarship holder);
  • At the Department of Public International Law since 1988 as a student assistant, assistant (V.-Ass. since 1992 and Univ.-Ass. since 1997) and Assistant Professor since 2006;
  • Secondment to the Office of the Legal Advisor in the Austrian Ministery of Foreign Affairs 1998-9
  • External expert of the BMaA for the negotiations of the UN Convention against Corruption 2002-3
  • Professor of International Law and Human Rights Law at the University of the Federal Army Munich from 2013-2017;
  • Adjunct Professor at the McGeorge School of Law;
  • University of Salzburg representative in CIVIS Hub I Climate, Energy, Environment;
  • Chair of the Salzburg University Curricular Committee of the CIVIS „Master of Transdisciplinary Studies in Climate, Energy and Environment (TRACEE), starting in September 2025;
  • Workpackage Teaching Co-Chair together with Makarere University in the Jean-Monnet Network „Tackling the Polycrisis“ (2023-2026);
  • Co-Founder of the Salzburg International Intellectual Property Fall School and Conference (2024-).