Max Baumgart is Assistant Professor in European and national regulation of the energy transition at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT). Max studied law in Berlin, Geneva and Cologne and obtained a double degree doctorate in law from the universities of Basel and Cologne. His doctoral studies were funded by the Hanns Seidel foundation and his dissertation received the EEX Group Excellence Award for Outstanding Research Papers 2019. Max held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Cologne and Göttingen, the University of Akureyri, UC Berkeley and at the China-EU School of Law in Beijing. Within his German Postgraduate Judicial Service Traineeship, he worked for the EU Commission’s Directorate-General Energy in Brussels and at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. Max is admitted to the German bar.
