After studying law at the Universities of Freiburg and Sydney, Australia, and completing my legal traineeship in Baden-Württemberg and Berlin, I have been working as a lawyer and mediator in Berlin since 2008. I have supported people in difficult phases of their separation and divorce, in inheritance law and in pension law issues. In addition, I have taught family law and child and youth welfare law in particular as a university lecturer for many years and have dedicated my professional life to the academic and practical promotion of (family) mediation. My activities have always had close and varied links to social work - with cooperation with youth welfare offices, advice centers and guardians ad litem, with the importance of care law aspects in inheritance law and with university teaching.
I am now looking forward to contributing my legal expertise and experience at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin and at the same time gaining an insight into the other areas that characterize social work. Being part of an interdisciplinary and in every respect diverse team is a great enrichment for me. It is a wonderful task to accompany the students on their way and to work with them to develop the legal tools necessary for their profession. I would like to focus my research on legal issues relating to child welfare and, among other things, examine the pressing challenges in connection with ("social") data networks.
In all of this, the most important thing for me is what a colleague from Freiburg said when I asked her what drives her: that people matter in research, teaching and collaboration at her university. I am very keen to work at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin with this understanding.
