Tatjana Hörnle is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg and Professor of Criminal Law at the Humboldt-University, Berlin. From July 2009 to September 2019, she held the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Legal Philosophy, and Comparative Law at the Humboldt-University, Berlin. She is a member of the Leopoldina (National Academy of Sciences), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature, and the Academia Europaea.