Prof. Dr. Tobias Kulhanek holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminology, and Sanctions Law and is Director of the Institute of Criminology at Leibniz University Hannover.

Previously, he worked for over a decade as a public prosecutor, judge at the regional court, mediator, and press officer in the Bavarian judiciary. Concurrently, Prof. Dr. Kulhanek earned his doctorate and habilitation at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research focuses on areas such as sanctions law, criminological research on judicial institutions, and procedural ethics in criminal proceedings.

Prof. Dr. Tobias Kulhanek is a long-time author of several standard works on criminal law and criminal procedure and a member of the expert commission on the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV). He is also a regular speaker at renowned conferences throughout Germany, including the NStZ Annual Conference, the WisteV-wistra New Year's Conference, the Munich Compliance Symposium, and the Beck Criminal Law Conferences.