Curriculum Vitae

A. General Information

Language skills: German (perfect), French (very good), English (very good), Romanian (good), Hungarian (basic), Italian (basic)

Diploma studies in Law: University of Vienna

LL.M. Studies in Law: College of Europe (Bruges)

Doctor Iuris: Topic of doctoral thesis: Nichtigkeitsklage vor dem EuGH - Parteistellung natürlicher und juristischer Personen (= The Action for Annulment - Locus Standi for Natural and Legal Persons under EU Procedural Law), Verlag Orac, Wien - New York 1998

Habiliation and venia docendi for European Union Law:

Topic of thesis: Drittwirkung von Grundfreiheiten - Zum Konzept des Normadressaten im EU-Recht (= The EU Fundamental Freedoms and Their Effect on Third Parties and Private Individuals), Springer, Wien - New York 2009.

B. Professional Experience: 

Since 3/2005: "ausserordentliche Universitätsprofessorin", Insitute for European, International and Comparative Law (University of Vienna)

Since 10/2006: Coordinator of elective studies "European Union Law in depth" (undergraduate studies, Faculty of Law, Vienna University)

2008 - 2018: Co-Editor "Zeitschrift für Europarecht, Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung" (ZfRV)

Since 1/2016: Jean Monnet-chair ad personam for European Union Law, Institut for European, International and Comparative Law (University of Vienna)

2013 - 2018: Member of the board of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM)

Since 2015: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Department for Economic Law and European Integration, Danube University, Krems

2016: Research stay with the Max Planck-Institut für Ausländisches Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Prof. Dr. Armin von Bogdandy)

2021: Research Stay with Homboldt Universität Berlin (Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers)

2025: FIDE National Rapporteur (Austria): Energy Solidairty and Energy Security - From Green Transition to the EU' Crisis Management

C. Academic Awards

Doc-Award of the Austrian Academiy of Sciences (ÖAW) 1998/1999

Maria Schaumayer-Prize, awarded for PhD thesis: "Nichtigkeitsklage vor dem EuGH - Parteistellung natürlicher und juristischer Personen" (= The Action for Annulment - Locus standi for Natural and Legal Persons in EU Procedural Law)

Figdor-Prize: Fidgdor Preis für Rechtswissenschaften der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, awarded 2005 for Habilitation-thesis "Drittwirkung von Grundfreiheiten - zum Konzept des Normadressaten im EU-Recht" (= The EU Fundamental Freedoms and Their Effect on Private Individuals)

D. Main Areas of Research

Common Structures of European and Comparative Constitutional Law

European Energy and Climate Change Law

European Constitutional Law