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Curriculum Vitae

Academic and Professional Experience

Since 2021: Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)
2021: Appointment to the University of Zurich (Professorship in Private Law with a Focus on Contract Law, Comparative Law, and Law and Economics)
2020: Lecturer at the University of Bern
2019-2022: Senior Research and Teaching Assistant in Civil Law and Civil Procedure Law, University of Zurich
2016-2021: Legal Advisor, Tenants’ Association Graubünden
2017-2018: Lawyer specialising in Commercial Law, Zurich
2017: Research Assistant at the Chair of Roman Law, Private Law and Comparative Law, University of Zurich
2016-2017: Ad hoc Law Clerk, Higher Court of the Canton of Graubünden
2016: Legal Intern, Administrative Court of the Canton of Graubünden
2015: Legal Intern, Higher Court of the Canton of Graubünden
2010-2015: Junior Research Assistant and Research Assistant at the Chair of Legal History, Canon Law, Theory of Law and Private Law, University of Zurich

Education

2021-2022: Master of Laws (Legal Theory), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 
2019-2020: CAS Higher Education Didactics, University of Zurich
2017: Admitted to the bar in the Canton of Graubünden
2012-2017: Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.) at the University of Zurich; Doctoral Thesis on the topic of "Geltungserhaltende Reduktion. Richterliche Ersatzregelbildung im schweizerischen Vertragsrecht" [‘Validity-Preserving Reduction. Judicial Substitution of Rules in Swiss Contract Law’]
2013-2015: Didactic Training ”Teaching Skills”, University of Zurich
2010-2012: Master of Law, University of Zurich
2007-2010: Bachelor of Law, University of Zurich
2000-2006: Baccalaureate (Matura), Bündner Kantonsschule Chur 

Research Stays

2019: Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
2018-2019: University of Bern, Institute for Civil Law (Section: Prof. Dr. Susan Emmenegger)
2015: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
2013-2015: Humboldt University of Berlin, Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law and Economics (Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wagner), Berlin 

Awards and Scholarships

2024: Contribution to the Teaching Project "Visualising Legal Concepts" from the ULF funding line open_innovation (CHF 40'000)
2021: University of Oxford Law Faculty Scholarship (returned)
2019-2020: Research Contribution from the Fund for the Promotion of Young Academics (FAN); returned
2019: Mercator Award (Award for Doctoral Thesis)
2018-2019: Research Grant from the University of Zurich (Postdoctoral Fellowship)
2018: Prof. Walther Hug Award (Award for Doctoral Thesis)
2018: Issekutz Award (Award for Doctoral Thesis)
2014-2015: Research Grant from the University of Zurich (Doctoral Fellowship)
2006: Swiss Youth Research Foundation, Award for Matura Thesis