Dr. Jürgen Meier studied biology and biochemistry at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Sussex and Dundee. After completion of his Ph.D. at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, he worked at the Centre de Recherche en Neuroscience of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He joined VOSSIUS & PARTNER in 1998 and became European Patent Attorney in 2001. He was admitted to practice as German Patent Attorney (Patentanwalt) and European Trademark Attorney in 2004.