Dominik Maas received a degree in European Studies, an interdisciplinary Master program that includes political science, law, and economics, at University of Wuppertal (Germany) in 2013. After an internship at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union in Brussels and a short time as project assistant at the German Federal Office of Administration in Cologne, in 2015 he joined KoWi, the EU Liaison office of the German Research Organisations, where he has been in charge of issues concerning the European Research Council (ERC). KoWi is the joint service platform of the major German science organisations. Together with the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), KoWi also has the role of the National Contact Point (NCP) for the ERC in Germany. Therefore, Dominik Maas is also a member of the German NCP ERC team.