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

2020 - Young Investigator Carlsberg Foundation Grant for 3-year project International Law-Making:Actors in Shipping and Climate Change (InterAct)

2020 - Grant awarded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark for 2-year project Enhancing Climate Action through International Law (EnAct) 

2020 - Grant awarded by Carlsberg Foundation for project International Conference on Enhancing Climate Action Beyond the State 

2020 - Grants awarded by Dreyersfond for project International Conference on Enhancing Climate Action Beyond the State

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 Projects, Council, Board, Committees and Networks

• P.I International Law-Making: Actors in Shipping and Climate Change (InterAct) for a postdoctoral and a PhD researcher (2021-2024) funded by the Carlsberg Foundation 

• P.I Enhancing Climate Action through International Law (EnAct) for two postdoctoral researchers (2021-2023) funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark 

• Participation as Researcher and Supervisor in project: Væksthus for bæredygtig skat og Verdensmålene for studerende og forskere. (2020-2022) Funded by Fonden for Entreprenørskab (PI. Karina Elgaard, University of Copenhagen) 

• Member of the Jean-Monnet Network Governing the EU’s Climate and Energy Transition in Turbulent Times (GOVTRAN), since 2019

• Resilience Frontiers Nexus Member, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, since 2019

• Project Coordinator Jean Monnet 3 year-grant (€ 395.000) for the establishment of a Course on Transatlantic Climate and Energy Law. 600249-EPP-1-2018-1-US-EPPJMO-NETWORK, since 2019

• Affiliated Member of the Copenhagen Centre for Disasters Research (COPE), since 2019

• Project Manager and Founder of the Arctic Environmental and Climate Change Governance Research Network (ArcEnGov) since 2019

• Participation as Researcher in Global Attribution Models, Mediation and Mobilisation in Sweden and Spain (GAMES) (2019-2021) Founded by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) (PI. Prof. Emily Boyd, Lund University)

• Referee of funding research proposals in the area of climate change and the Arctic for the Research Foundation of  Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO, since 2019

• Referee of funding research proposals in the area of climate change and energy 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 as Researcher and Supervisor 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 project ‘HiddenRisk: Understanding the Impact of Human Activities on Subterranean Biodiversity’ founded by VILLUM Fonden (PI: Prof. A.S. Reboleira, Natural History Museum of Denmark) since 2017

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

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

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

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

• Management Committee Member (Denmark) of the EU COST Action: Ocean Governance for Sustainability – Challenges, Options and the Role of Science (OceanGov - CA15217), since 2016

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

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

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

• Member of the Research Network Nordic Environmental Law, Governance and Science (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 at the UNFCCC  Conference of the Parties (COP), IMO and ICAO since 2010.

Primary fields of research

I am an Associate Professor of Environmental and Climate Change Law at the Center for International Law adn Governance (CILG). I obtained  my PhD on the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation and maritime transport in 2015 under the supervision Professor Peter Pagh. My research interests coalesce around issues of environmental and climate change law and governance. 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.

Among others, I have been teaching climate change law for the last 10 years, and I am the founder of TRAMEREN (Transatlantic Maritime Emissions Research Network with NYU School of Law) and ArcEnGov (Arctic Environmental and Climate Change Governance Network with Canadian Research Institutions). I cooperate with students in the organization of sustainability and climate related events, such as the Climate Breakfast Seminar Series and the Interdisciplinary Seminars on Climate, Energy and Sustainability, which I lead.

I supervise PhD projects since 2018.

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
• Renewable Energy
• Fragmentation of international law and regime interaction
• Environmental and climate-related regulation of the Arctic
• Ocean Governance
• Corporate Environmental Responsibility

Teaching

Course Coordinator and Lecturer: Masters Course Climate Change and the Law (2010, 2011, 2013 and since 2016 to present), University of Copenhagen

Course Coordinator and Lecturer: Jean Monnet Masters Course Transnational Climate Change and Energy Law (2019-2021). The program runs in cooperation with University of Denver, Oslo and Colorado

Course Coordinator, Co-organizer and Lecturer: LLM for professionals: North Sea Energy Law Programme (since 2015 to present). The program runs in cooperation with University of Aberdeen, Groningen and Oslo

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

Lecturer: Masters Course on International Energy Law and Sustainability (2019), University of Copenhagen

Lecturer: Masters Course on International Environmental Law (2018) University of Sydney School of Law, Australia

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

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

Course Coordinator Masters Course: International Law-Making (since 2017), University of Copenhagen

Course Coordinator Bachelor Course: Introduction to International Law-Making (since 2017), University of Copenhagen

Supervision of Master’s student theses since 2015

Supervisor of Bachelor's student theses since 2018

Cluster supervisor (Master and Bachelor level) since 2019

Supervision of Internship’s reports since 2016

Supervisor of PhD thesis since 2018.