Dr Jonas Schürger holds a PhD from the University of Bonn for his work on the principles of equivalence and substituted compliance. He is currently a legal trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne and worked, inter alia, for the German Ministry of Finance. Dr Schürger previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Universities of Vienna and Bonn. His research focuses on EU law, public international law and banking and capital markets law, topics on which he also published extensively in the past. Furthermore, he was a member of the Young Researchers Group of the European Banking Institute and coordinated the group until July 2022.