Education
| 2024 | Graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management's Neuroscience for Business programme |
| 2023 | Graduate of the ‘Business Psychology’ programme at ELG E-Learning-Group |
| 2019 to 2020 | Training as a ‘PScn profiler’ |
| 2019 | Graduate of the Negotiation Programme at the LSE | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 2018 | Graduate of the Negotiation Mastery programme at HBX | Harvard Business School |
| 2017 | Graduate of the Negotiation and Influence programme at the MIT Sloan School of Management |
| 2014 | Bar examination (passed with distinction) |
| 1999 to 2005 | Studies of law at the University of Vienna (certificate ‘best of the best’) |
| 1980 | Born in Vienna |
Work experience
| Since 2021 | Lecturer at the MBA programme in Real Estate Management at Middlesex University London (with organisational and financial support from KMU Akademie & Management AG) |
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| Since 2020 | Management accountant (GISA-number 32932553) | |
| 2016 to 2017 | Lecture at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce | |
| Since 2015 | Self-dependent attorney at law | |
| 2012 to 2014 | Associate at Tonninger | Schermaier | Maierhofer & Partner attorneys at law | |
| 2012 | Court practice at the Liesing District Court and the Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters | |
| 2011 to 2012 | Accociate at Tonninger | Schermaier | Riegler | Maierhofer attorneys at law | |
| 2004 to 2011 | Legal assistant, then associate at Lansky, Ganzger + partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH | |
| 2000 to 2001 | Community service at Vienna General Hospital |
Publications
| 2023 | Schmelz, When in doubt, go for the middle ground: The significance of the anchoring effect in settlement discussions before civil courts, Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag |
| 2020 | Co-Autor of Blasoni/Cervinka/Drösler/Edelsbrunner/Eigner/Hülle/Kropatschek/Voss/Perl-Lippitsch/Pyka/Scherzer/Schmelz/Schöberl/Schönsgiebl/Sieh/Sorgo/Stangl-Fraberger/Steinberger/Streit/Szoka/Szöky/Unterfrauner/Wolf/Wolf, Templates for notaries, WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2017 | Co-Autor of Bürger/Damitner/Edelsbrunner/Gschaider/Herdega/Ivkovic/Kleewein/Niernberger/Prutsch/Rappert/Rath/Schmelz/Schossleitner/Schwarzenbacher/Siegel/Urak, Handbook on Representation and Accommodation, WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2016 | Co-Autor of Buchegger/Fuchs/Höller/Martin/Schmelz/Schmelz/Slany/Weisert/Zacherl, Handbook of Civil Procedure, WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2016 | Co-Autor of Blasoni/Futterknecht/Gloser/Noss/Prchlik/Schmelz/Schönsgibl/Streit, Partnerships in case studies, WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2014 | Schmelz, Labour law aspects of radio frequency identification (RFID), Diplomica Verlag GmbH |
| 2014 | Schermaier/Schmelz, Conciliation and arbitration clauses in association statutes |
| 2014 | Co-Autor of the “Review of Crowdfunding Regulation”, European Crowdfunding Network |
| 2013 | Schermaier/Schmelz, On the scope of transfer restriction clauses in limited liability companies |
| 2013 | Schermaier/Schmelz, The foundation declaration from the perspective of asset protection |
| 2013 | Schermaier/Schmelz, The distribution of assets when winding up associations |
| 2012 | Schermaier/Schmelz, Changes to the share register and share types as a result of the 2011 Austrian Act on the Reform of the Law on Companies (GesRÄG 2011) |
| 2012 | Schermaier/Schmelz, The merger plan as the legal basis for cross-border mergers, WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2012 | Schermaier/Schmelz, Capital preservation aspects of the merger of the granddaughter company with its grandmother company, WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2011 | Schermaier/Schmelz, The reintegration of a limited liability company into the parent association by way of a merger, WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2011 | Schermaier/Schmelz, Limits of internationality in corporations – possibility of choosing a non-German language for articles of association/statutes/resolutions, WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2011 | Schermaier/Schmelz, Amendments to the Private Foundation Act by the 2011 Budget Accompanying Act, WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2011 | Schermaier/Schmelz, The effect of discharging members of the executive board and supervisory board of a public limited company, WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2010 | Schermaier/Schmelz, Liability in the sale of shares in an Austrian limited liability company (GmbH) by a non-Austrian (published in two parts), WEKA-Verlag Gesellschaft m.b.H. |
| 2004 | Schmelz, Domain grabbing in Austrian case law, Diplomica Verlag GmbH |
Special fields
Association law & commercial law, inheritance law & asset planning
Languages
German, English
Books
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