CV

Education

2015: PhD, Law

2010: Member of the Bar Association of Madrid (Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid). Member number 92125

2008: MSc, Political Science and Government (focus on European Studies), Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2007: Posgraduate Certificate in Education, Universidad Camilo Jose Cela, Madrid

2005: LLM, Law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Funding, Awards, Grants and Scholarships

2018 - 1-year research grant to support the establishment of a network with the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Canada on Arctic Environmental and Climate Change Governance. Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education

2018 - Grant awarded by DreyersFond for project: International Conference on Frontiers in Ocean Environmental Governance

2017 - 6-month grant European Climate Foundation for a project on Flags of Convenience and the International Maritime Organization. In collaboration with the Energy Institute, University College London

2017 - Erasmus + Mobility Grant For Teaching. Grant awarded to conduct a teaching stay at Sydney University School of Law in April-May 2018

2017 - Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Grant from the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action Ocean Governance for Sustainability – Challenges, Options and the Role of Science (OceanGov - CA15217) (2017)

2016 - Tender award Nordic Council of Ministers for a 6-month project on Transformation to Low-carbon Shipping. In collaboration with the Energy Institute, University College London and Chalmers University of Technology Sweden.

2016 - 1-year research grant to support the establishment of a network with New York University School of Law on climate change and maritime transport. Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation

2015 - Judges Choice and the Popular Choice Awards of the MIT Centre for Collective Intelligence’s Climate CoLab Climate Transportation Policies Contest and MIT Honorable Mention Climate CoLab Overall Contest

2015 - 2-year research grant to support a 3-year postdoctoral project awarded by the Danish Maritime Fund

2010 - 3-year PhD. scholarship Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation

2008 - 6-months grant awarded by Leonardo Da Vinci Program of the European Union, administered by Becas Argo

Management and Participation in council, board, committees and network

Reviewer of research funding proposals in the area of climate change for the Research Council of Norway, since 2018

Member of the Nordic Network on Climate Change Governance (NorClimGov) since 2018

Project Leader and Manager of the interdisciplinary project ‘Flags of Convenience and the International Maritime Organization: Registries, Offshore Finance and Climate Change’. 2017-2018

Participation in project ‘A World beyond Repair: Legal Responses to Foreseeable Climate Tragedy (ReFleCT)’ founded by Independent Research Fund Denmark – FSE - (PI Prof. Morten Broberg, Faculty of Law, UCPH) since 2017

Participation as Collaborator in interdisciplinary project ‘HiddenRisk: Understanding the Impact of Human Activities on Subterranean Biodiversity’ founded by VILLUM Fonden (PI: Ana S. Reboleira, Natural History Museum of Denmark) 2017-2019

Member of the Research Group for Fiscal Relations (FIRE) and editorial board of the UCPH Fiscal Relations Law Journal since 2017

Participation as Collaborator in the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) World Bank Project, since 2017

Project Leader and Manager of the interdisciplinary project ‘Transformation to Low-carbon Shipping for the Nordic Council of Ministers’, 2016-2017

Project Manager and founder of the Transatlantic Maritime Emissions Research Network (TRAMEREN) since 2016

Management Committee Member (Denmark Representative) of the EU COST Action: Ocean Governance for Sustainability (OceanGov - CA15217) since 2016

Affiliated Researcher of the Research Network on Fragmentation in Global Governance (REFRACT) since 2015

Member of the European Environmental Law Forum (EELF) since 2013

Member of the Oresund Early Career Sustainability Researchers (ODYSUS) since 2013

Member of the Nordic Environmental Law, Governance and Science Network (NELN) since 2010

Visiting Scholarships

2018 - Visiting Lecturer, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law, University of Sydney Law School, Australia

2017 - Visiting Researcher, Institute for Environmental Studies, Department for Environmental Policy Analysis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2017 - Visiting Researcher, The Barlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, University College London,  London, UK 

2016 and 2017 - Visiting Researcher, Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law, New York University School of Law, New York City, US 

2011 - Visiting Researcher, Maritime Knowledge Centre at the International Maritime Organization, London, United Kingdom

2011 - Visiting Researcher, University Institute of Environmental Science (Institituto Universitario de Ciencias Ambientales, IUCA-UCM), University Complutense of Madrid, Spain

Attendance as Observer to United Nations Negotiation Processes 

24th Session  of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC, Katowice, Poland (10-16/12/2018)

23rd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC, Bonn, Germany (6-12/11/2017)

SB46 and APA3 Sessions, Bonn Climate Change Conference, Bonn, Germany (13-18/05/2017)

22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC, Marrakesh, Morocco (7-13/11/2016)

SB44 and APA1 Sessions, Bonn Climate Change Conference, Bonn, Germany (16-26/05/2016)

21st Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC, Paris, France (5-12/12/2015)

19th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC, Warsaw, Poland (11-17/11/2013)

Intersessional Group on Market-Based Measures from the MEPC, IMO, London, UK (28/03-1/04/2011)

61st Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), International Maritime Organization, London (IMO), UK (27/09-1/10/2010) 

37th ICAO Assembly and Colloquium on Aviation and Climate Change, ICAO, Montreal, Canada (11-14/5/2010)

Primary fields of research

I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Climate Change Law at the Center for International Law, Conflict and Crisis (CILCC), where I am involved in environmental and climate change research. Specifically, my PhD thesis focused on the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation and maritime transport. I have a keen interest in the international climate negotiations, and the regulatory processes at the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization, as well as the developments at the EU level.

My main areas of interest include:

• Environmental and climate change law and policy
• Aviation and maritime transport sectors
• Law-making processes at international and EU levels
• Environmental taxation, carbon pricing and related fiscal measures
• Fragmentation of international law and regime interaction
• Environmental and climate-related regulation of the Arctic
• Ocean Governance
• Corporate Environmental Responsibility

Teaching

Lecturer Bachelor Course: Public International Law (2016 and 2017), University of Copenhagen

Lecturer: Masters Course on Climate Change and the Law (2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2018), University of Copenhagen

Committee Member, Co-organizer and Lecturer: International Masters Course: North Sea Energy Law Programme (2015, 2017 and 2019). The program runs in cooperation with University of Aberdeen, Groningen and Oslo

Lecturer: Masters Course: European Union External Relations (2016), University of Copenhagen

Lecturer: Masters course on International Environmental Law (2011 and 2018), University of Copenhagen

Course Director Master Course: International Law-Making (from 2017), University of Copenhagen

Supervision of Master’s student theses (since 2015)

Co-supervision of PhD thesis (from 2018)