Professor Achim Seifert has held the Chair of Civil Law, German and European Labour Law at Universität des Saarlandes since 2024. From 2011 until 2024 he hold the Chair of Civil Law, German and European Labour Law and Comparative Law at Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2011. His research focuses on labour law with European and international references, in particular employee data protection law, as well as issues of collective labour law and collective bargaining law. In civil law, he has focussed on loan and consumer credit law. He also specialises in issues relating to the horizontal effect of fundamental rights in private law transactions.