CMER TEAM
Team CMER
Our team consists of Academic and Practitioning Legal Experts in a variety of Environmental and Energy fields on both a national as well as a global stage.
Professoren
Expertise: international and European environmental and biodiversity law
Research focus: marine and terrestrial biodiversity law; ecological restoration law.
Education: international and European environmental and biodiversity law, law and ethics on marine nature conservation, international law and sustainability, public international law.
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Expertise: Milieu- en Omgevingsrecht
Education: Environmental Law, Advanced Environmental Law and Notarial Administrative Law.
Coördinator of the Plan-B Project (EU funded)
Expertise: international environmental law, European environmental law, biodiversity law, Flemish environmental and planning law
Expertise & Research focus: Energy Law
Education: Energy Law
Practice: Partner Public & Energy Law - Stibbe
Education: Ruimtelijk ordeningsrecht, Juridische Aspecten
Practice: Eerste auditeur bij Raad van State
Expertise: international environmental law, protection of ocean and seas, law of the sea and freshwater law
Expertise: Environmental law, constitutional law, European law, Federalism, Sustainable development
Practice: President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium
Postdoctoral Researchers
Expertise: Energy Law
Research Thesis: The legal framework for (inter)connecting the Belgian offshore wind farms (UGent 2025)
Practice: Lawyer at Loyens & Loeff
Expertise: Animal Law
Research Thesis: Towards new legal instruments for animal welfare (UGent 2022)
Education: Animal & Law
Expertise: Environmental Law
Research Thesis: A Legal Journey in the Life of Biochar in the EU: Assessing Opportunities and Challenges Through a Value Chain Approach (UHasselt, 2024)
Expertise: biodiversity protection
Research Thesis: The contribution of international fisheries law to human development. An analysis of multilateral and EU-ACP fisheries instruments (VUA 2010)
Research Focus: TRANSNATURE project on transboundary biodiversity protection under the supervision of Prof. dr. Hendrik Schoukens
Expertise: Energy Law
Research Thesis: Electricity demand-side management as a road for promoting the uptake of renewable electricity: an examination of eu law (UGent 2025)
Research Focus: renewable electricity promotion, electricity market regulation, and grid governance
Affiliated post-doctoral researcher
Expertise: State Law
Research Thesis: De Juridische beschermenswaardigheid van onroerend erfgoed: naar een sterkere bindende criteria (UGent 2020)
Practice: Auditor with the Council of State, Belgium
Affiliated post-doctoral researcher
Expertise: Environmental Law, maintaining Flemish Litigation
Research Thesis: De herstelmaatregel in het Vlaamse Decreet ruimtelijke ordening (UGent 2006)
Practice: senior adviseur at Project Coördinatie Vlaams Handhavingsbeleid
Doctoral Researchers
Research domain: zero pollution from a legal perspective
Promotor: Prof. dr. Geert Van Hoorick
Research domain: environment protection during armed conflict
Promotor: Prof. dr. An Cliquet
Research domain: strategic biodiversity litigation
Promotor: Prof. dr. An Cliquet and Prof. Dr. Hendrik Schoukens
Research domain: international and European biodiversity law and ecological restoration
Promotor: Prof. dr. An Cliquet and Prof. Dr. Francesco Sindico
Research Domain: online intimidation tactics against environmental defenders
Promotor: Prof. dr. An Cliquet
Research Domain: Biodiversity convention and Biosafety protocol
Promotor: Prof. dr. An Cliquet and Prof. dr. Godelieve Gheysen
Research domain: Light Pollution
Promotor: Prof. dr. Geert Van Hoorick
Coordinator EU Project - Plan-BPublications | Linked-In
Affilliated & Student Researchers
- Carole Billiet (Affiliated Researcher)
- Lander Casteels (Student Researcher)
- Jan De Mulder (Affiliated Researcher)
- Toshio Hase (Affiliated Researcher)
- dr. Zhenzhen Rong (Affiliated Researcher)
- dr. Jef Seghers (Affiliated Researcher)
- Sam Vandoorne (Affiliated Researcher)
- Elias Van Marcke (Affiliated Researcher)
- Natan Vermeersch (Affiliated Researcher)
- Ludo Veuchelen (Affiliated Researcher)
Assistants
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