An advocate, expert in comparative criminal law, professor at the University of Zurich

He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg, where in 2002 he obtained a doctorate in law. In 2000-2005 he worked as an assistant / adjunct at the University of Hamburg. In 2004-2005 a researcher at Yale Law School. In 2006-2008 a researcher at the Max Planck Institute. 2008-2010 implemented a research project at the University of Bonn Eigene Stelle financed by the Förderung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft as part of the "Strafrechtsgenese in Internationalen Organization" project). has been an advocate specializing in commercial criminal law and criminal law in European and international context since 2008. In 2010, he was a visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since 2011, he has been the head of the Department of Law and Criminal Process at the University of Zurich. He is the author of numerous publications, including monographs on comparative criminal law (Strafrechtsgenese in internationalen Organization, 2012), Demokratieprinzip und Europäisches Strafrecht, 2009), Willensmängel des Angeklagten beim Rechtsmittelverzicht im Strafverfahren, 2003).