Department: DERECHO PÚBLICO Y COMÚN EUROPEO

Area: Public International Law and International Relations

Research group: DERECHO COMÚN EUROPEO Y ESTUDIOS INTERNACIONALES

Email: csoria@ujaen.es

Carlos Soria Rodríguez is a Ramón y Cajal fellow and lecturer in the section of public international law and international relations at the University of Jaén (Spain). He is also a senior associate researcher to the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium). Trained as a public international and European Union (EU) lawyer with a background in public policy, he counts with more than 10 years of research, teaching and policy analysis experience on topics related to public international law and EU law. Before joining the University of Jaén as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow (2020-2023), he worked as a researcher (doctoral and postdoctoral) at the ‘Institute for European Studies’ and the section of international and EU law of the VUB. Carlos has been educated in Spain, Scotland, the USA and Belgium. He completed his PhD in Law at the VUB. He also holds a degree in Law and a master in industrial security and occupational hazard prevention both from University of Sevilla (Spain) and an LLM in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School (USA). Carlos has been recipient of prestigious projects and grants such as the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (European Commission) or the Ramón y Cajal fellowship (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation), and published on topics related to environmental law, law of the sea, marine policy and ocean/environmental/climate/renewable energy governance.