| 2016 | Appointment as honorary professor at the Georg-August University of Göttingen |
| 2010 – 2016 | Teaching assignments at the Georg-August-University Göttingen for the course “International Purchase Law”“ |
| 2007 – 2018 | Judge at the Federal Court of Justice as a member of the VIII. Civil Senate, in the first half of 2009 also as a member of the Xa. Civil Senate |
| 2004 – 2007 | Presiding judge at the Higher Regional Court in Braunschweig, first as chairman of a family senate and then as chairman of a civil senate and the senate for agricultural matters |
| 1994 | Secondment to the Higher Regional Court of Naumburg |
| 1992 – 2004 | Judge at the Higher Regional Court in Braunschweig, mainly as a member of a civil panel responsible primarily for disputes relating to intellectual property law and commercial agency and transport law as well as for complaints in the area of voluntary jurisdiction |
| 1990 | Test delegation to the Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig |
| 1985 – 1992 | Judge at the Regional Court in Braunschweig, mainly as a member of a civil chamber responsible for disputes arising from industrial property rights |
| 1982 – 1985 | Probationary judge in the district of the Regional Court of Braunschweig |
| 1984 | Doctorate at the Georg-August-University Göttingen |
| 1978 – 1981 | Legal traineeship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig |
| 1977 –1981 | Student research assistant at the Law Department of the University of Göttingen |
| 1973 – 1978 | Studied law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen |
