Curriculum

• 2021 Election as member of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (ACCC)
• 2014 - 2021 Judge, Higher Administration Court of Lower Saxony, Lueneburg (7th Senate, dealing with environmental and energy law)
• 2011 University Professor for Public Law, in particular Energy and Environmental Law
• 2007 – 2009 lecturer at the Southampton Solent University (UK)
• 2005 honorary doctor´s degree by the Georgian Technical University, Tblisi
• since 2004 professor at the University of Lueneburg, public law, in particular public administrative law
• 1996 – 2004 professor at the former University of Applied Sciences, Lueneburg, with the denomination of public law, in particular public administrative law
• 1988 - 1996: governmental official in the City of Hamburg (Regierungsrat, Oberregierungsrat), i. e. in the areas of the law of construction and environmental law
• 1985 - 1988: legal traineeship (Referendariat), High Court (Oberlandesgericht) Celle, Second State Exam
• 1982 - 1986: dissertation "Deficits in the Law of Nature Conservation" ("Defizite im Naturschutzrecht"), University of Göttingen
• 1976 - 1981: law studies at the universities of Hamburg and Göttingen, First State Exam

Research interests

Law of renewable energies, energy and resource efficiency, information law, waste law, various areas of environmental law.

Teaching

Environmental and energy law, European law, constitutional and administrative law.