2008: Abitur (High school graduation) at Georg-Büchner-Oberschule, Berlin

2009-2015: Legal studies at the Universität Potsdam and Freie Universität Berlin, first state exam

2016 - Ongoing: PhD candidate in law and criminology at the Freie Universität Berlin, research focus: Victimisation of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors

2016 - 2020: Lecturer: Volunteer project for students and refugees at the Freie Universität Berlin

2017: Co-Founder of Network Criminology Berlin

2017-2018: Juvenile Court Assistant at the Youth Welfare Office Teltow-Fläming

2018 - 2019: Lecturer in criminology at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht, Berlin

2018 - Ongoing: Research Assistant at the Research Unit Criminal Law and Criminology, Freie Universität Berlin

2018: Co-Founder of the NGO Tatort Zukunft e.V.

2018 - Ongoing: Project management “University in Prison” at the JVA Tegel

Memberships:

• Deutsche Vereinigung für Jugendgerichte und Jugendgerichtshilfen e. V. 
• European Society of Criminology
• Tatort Zukunft e.V.

• Drenkhahn, K., Schmid, J., Wegner, J., Rappsilber, S., Volmer, L.: Unaccompanied Minors & Law Students – learning from each other and beyond the classroom. Poster presentation, Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Münster September 2016. 
• Wegner, J.: Unaccompanied Refugee Minors. Poster presentation, Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Sarajevo August 2018. 
• Knop, J.; Kroupa, A., Mika, M.; Nickels, J.; Rotino, S.; Tanz; Wegner, J. (2019): „Mauer(n)!“. Bericht über die Konferenz des Netzwerks Kriminologie Berlin vom 1.12.2018 an der FU Berlin. In: KrimJ 4/2019, p. 312-314.