Carsten Momsen is a tenured full professor for “Comparative Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Corporate- and Environmental Criminal Law. After full professorships at University of the Saarland and University Hanover, Momsen is heading the Department (Chair) of Comparative Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Economic and Environmental Criminal Law at the Free University of Berlin since 2015. He has been elected as Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs 2024.
He was visiting professor at Symbiosis Law School in Pune and several times at University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, Toronto/Canada. In 2019. Since 2020, Momsen is affiliated as an ongoing visiting professor at the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University New York (CUNY) and as well he is affiliated as “Scholar in Residence” at New York Law School, New York, USA. In 2023 he was visiting professor at University of Toronto Law School and was elected as “UNA-Europa Chair” at KU Leuven. Momsen is a member of the "Anglo-German Dialogue on Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Justice". He is a founding member and PI of the "Einstein Center Digital Future” and member of the the “Freie Universität Empirical Legal Studies Center (FUELS)” as well as Member of the international research groups “Arbeitskreis Alternativentwurf” and “Anglo-German Dialogue Project” (including the international “Virtual Comparative Criminal Law Seminar” (VCCL) and the and the “Kriminalpolitischer Kreis”, a Group of 40 German Professors working on criminal justice and politics. Momsen works part-time as a criminal defense attorney in cooperation especially in appellate and white-collar criminal law as well as in proceedings related to the U.S.