CV
- Since March 2016 – Co-Host, “Lage der Nation” (State of the Nation), one Germany’s most popular podcasts on current politics (with Philip Banse)
- Since September 2015 – President / Member of the Board, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (Society for Civil Rights), an impact litigation NGO
- October 2020 to May 2023 – Legal Director, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte
- June 2019 to September 2020 – Desk Officer, Berlin State Department of Justice
- June 2017 to May 2019 – Law Clerk, Berlin Constitutional Court
- 7. Juli 2015 – Represented Amnesty International Germany and netzpolitik.org at oral arguments before the German Federal Constitutional Court in a case pertaining to investigatory powers of the Federal Police Bureau (BKA)
- February 2015 – Dr. iur., University Frankfurt/Main (summa cum laude). Doctoral thesis on privacy & freedom of information submitted July 2013, defended September 2014
- August 2014 to May 2017 – Judge at Berlin Superior Court, Capital Crimes division
- August 2013 to May 2014 – Master of Laws (LL.M.), Columbia University School of Law, New York City. Full tuition waiver. Graduated with distinction as James Kent Scholar “in recognition of outstanding academic achievement”.
- 2010 to 2013 – Judge at Berlin Superior Court (Landgericht Berlin)
- September 2011 – Appointed to the Advisory Board of Privacy International
- September 2010 – Appointed judge at Landgericht Berlin with life tenure
- 2009 to 2010 – Delegation to the State Ministry of Justice, Berlin, draft of the Code on Data Protection & Freedom of Information for Berlin’s state prisons
- 2008 to 2009 – Judge at Berlin Superior Court (Landgericht Berlin)
- 2007 to 2008 – Law clerk of Justice Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. mult. Winfried Hassemer and Chief Justice Prof. Dr. Andreas Voßkuhle, Federal Constitutional Court; working mostly on criminal law & criminal procedure
- 2007 – Appointed judge of the state of Berlin, working at Berlin-Tiergarten criminal court
- 2006 – Second State Examination in law, specializing in European law, ranking 1st out of 166 candidates
- 2004 – 2006 – Practical training in law (Referendariat) by the state of Berlin, stages at the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
- 2003/04 – Research visitor at Bibliothèque de Cujas, Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation
- 2002/03 – Senior research assistant at the Institute of International Private Law, Leipzig University
- 2002 – First State Examination in law, Leipzig University; ranking 1st out of 550 candidates
- 1994 bis 2002 – Studied law & psychology at Osnabrück university as well as law, egyptology & political science in Leipzig and Rennes (Brittany, France); scholarship from Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
- 1994 – A levels / high school diploma from Graf-Stauffenberg-Gymnasium Osnabrück
- Born in Osnabrück, Germany; grown up in Bissendorf (Osnabrück county)
