Department: DERECHO PÚBLICO Y COMÚN EUROPEO

Area: Public International Law and International Relations

Research group: DERECHO COMÚN EUROPEO Y ESTUDIOS INTERNACIONALES

Carlos Soria Rodríguez is a postdoctoral research fellow and professor in the section of public international law and international relations at the University of Jaén (Spain). Trained as a public international and European 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, with a focus on environmental law and law of the sea. 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 Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium). Carlos has been educated in Spain, Scotland, the USA and Belgium. He completed his PhD in Law at the VUB with a thesis on ‘The international and European environmental regulation of marine renewable energies in the EU’. 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).