- 2011/12 Global Fellow (Hauser Research Scholar), New York University School of Law
- Since 2011 Elected Member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Since 2007 Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn/Germany
- 2007 Second State Exam in Law, admitted to the bar
- 2005 – 2007 Legal Clerkship
- 2003 – 2007 Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant at the Chair for Administrative Law and Public Administration, University of Münster, Faculty of Law
- 2003 – 2005 Doctor of Laws (Dr. iur.)
- Awarded the 2005 University of Münster dissertation prize
- 2002 First State Exam in Law
- 1998 – 2002 Research Assistant at the Chair for Administrative Law and Public Administration, University of Münster, Faculty of Law
- 1997 – 2002 Studies of Law, Economics and Modern Chinese at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and of Nanjing (P.R. China)
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