Curriculum vitae

Appointed as a full professor of private law with a focus on property law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich

Appointed as a private lecturer in Swiss private and business law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel

Writing of the post-doctoral thesis on the topic “Freedom and constraint in the conclusion of contracts. An investigation of the legal contracting obligations and further barriers to the freedom to conclude contracts in Swiss law” (University of Basel; Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Ernst A. Kramer)

Junior Researcher Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (post-doctoral thesis)

Research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

Admitted as a notary in the Canton of Aargau

Doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) based on the doctoral thesis on the topic of “Die Formmarke” (University of Zurich; Prof. Dr. Walter R. Schluep)

Admitted to the bar in the Canton of Aargau

Studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich; Lizenziat (Master of Law)

Matura Typus B (baccalaureate) at the Kantonsschule Zofingen

Guest speaker in the lecture “Comparative Law” by Prof. Dr. Florian Bien at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg

Guest lecturer in the “Global Law” program at the KU Leuven for “Land law and land registration”

Visiting Researcher at the South African Research Chair of Property Law (Prof. Dr. André van der Walt), Stellenbosch University, and at the Department of Private Law (Prof. Dr. Hanri Mostert), University of Cape Town

Full Professor of Private Law with a focus on Property Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zurich

Full-time judge at the Higher Court of the Canton of Aargau

Member of the Aargau Notaries Commission (supervisory commission for Aargau notaries)

Partner at the law firm Stiffler & Partner, Zurich; own notary office in Aarau

Member of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Bar Association of the Canton of Aargau

Lecturer in Private Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel, from 2006 as a private lecturer in Swiss Private and Commercial Law

Member of the working group of the Aargau Notaries Society for the creation of a new notaries law

Attorney-at-law and notary at the law firm Binder Attorneys-at-law, Baden

Partner at the law firm Röthlisberger, Vogel & Arnet, Aarau

Substitute judge at the Higher Court of the Canton of Aargau, 2nd Civil Division and 2nd Civil Chamber

Notary training at the law firm Dr. Hans B. Diriwächter, Aarburg

Attorney at law firm Troller, Hitz & Troller, Lucerne

Law clerk at the Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal of the Canton of Aargau

Legal internships

Representative of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich in the General Assembly of the Swiss Judicial Academy SRA