Curriculum Vitae

• studied law in Vienna (magister iuris 1991, doctor iuris 1994) and Paris and at Harvard Law School (LL.M. 1994)

• end of 1994: member of the Department for Legal Affairs in European Integration in the Constitutional Law Section of the Austrian Federal Chancellery

• from 1995 to 2003 member of the chambers of Judge Dr Peter Jann at the European Court of Justice

• since September 2003 member of the European Commission Legal Service

• postdoctoral qualification to lecture in European law (Habilitation) obtained at the University of Graz in 2004

• honorary professor of European Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (since 2010)

• since June 2013 legal adviser in the European Commission Legal Service

• EU Fellow at Yale University (2013-2014)

• since September 2015 assistant to the Director-General of the European Commission Legal Service

• has taught and published extensively on various matters of European Union law

Main research interest

• judicial protection and institutional Union law

• Union fundamental rights

• internal market

Selected recent publications

• Das Vorabentscheidungsverfahren vor dem EuGH. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rechtslage in Österreich und Deutschland (3., völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage, Wien 2015) XVI, 258 Seiten

• Das Verfahren vor dem EuGH, in: Wilhelm Bergthaler/Christoph Grabenwarter (Hrsg), Musterhandbuch öffentliches Recht (Wien 2015)

• EU fundamental rights and Member State action after Lisbon: putting the ECJ's case law in its context, Fordham International Law Journal 2015, 1097-1133