Born on 3 April 1969 in Giessen, Germany

• Law degrees, First and Second State exam in law, 1993 and 1996
• German Academy of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, Germany, 1994-1995
• Master degree in International and Comparative Law, George Washington University, United States of America, 1999
• Research Fellow (2000-2008) and Head of the Minerva Research Group (2008-2013), Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
• Doctor of Juridical Science, George Washington University, 2004
• Lecturer in International and Comparative Law, Heidelberg University, 2002-2012
• Adjunct Professor, Master of Comparative Law Program of the Universities of Mannheim, Germany, and Adelaide, Australia, 2003-2008
• Member of the Academic Founding Committee, International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2010-2011
• Professor of Public Law, International and Comparative Law, Habilitation, Venia legend from the University of Heidelberg, 2012
• Chair in International Law and Human Rights Law (2013-2016) and Director of the Institute for Public International Law and European Law (2014-2016), University of Göttingen, Germany
• Member (2013-2018), Vice-Chair (2015-2017) of the UN-Human Rights Committee
• Chair in Public Law, International Law and Human Rights Law and Director of the Institute for Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law, University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Law, 2016-2019
• Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1 January 2020.