Lüder Behrens studied biology at the University of Bremen and biomedicine at the University of Glasgow, UK, as well as at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Washington D.C. He graduated in 1994, having carried out the practical work for his diploma thesis in the field of virology at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, and the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen. He later carried out research at the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology / Biochemistry in Martinsried, Munich, obtaining his doctorate in the fields of molecular and cellular immunology of neuromuscular diseases in 1998. Until 2001, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, in the field of neurovirology and viral genetics.

Dr. Behrens passed the German patent bar examination in 2005 and is also admitted to practise as a European patent attorney at the European Patent Office. He is also a qualified European trademark and design attorney admitted to practise before the European Community Trademark Office (OHIM).

He speaks German, English and French.

Lüder Behrens worked in the firm Hoffmann Eitle, Munich, from 2001-2009 and joined the Munich office of Maiwald Patentanwalts GmbH in 2010. His main areas of activity are patent prosecution and oppositions, nullity and infringement actions, and the provision of freedom-to-operate and validity opinions in the fields of biotechnology and pharmaceutics.