Academic biography

I am an Assistant Professor in Climate Change Law and Policy (with tenure) at the DCU School of Law and Government and Visiting Professor at the World Maritime University. At DCU, I am the Chair of the LLM programme. My primary research interests are Carbon Pricing, International Maritime Transport, and Climate Change Law. 

I am currently the PI of a United Nations Foundation grant on the decarbonization of international maritime transport. I am also the DCU Co-PI of the Innovate for Ireland National Centre DECARB-AI and a Funded Investigator of the SFI Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water. 

My research on carbon pricing has been cited in the Financial Times (behind paywall), the Guardian, and France24, and has been awarded prizes by various institutions, including the MIT Climate CoLab (Honorable Mention), ELPAR (Honorable Mention), and the World Bank (Vice President Team Award). 

My research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals (eg, Climate Policy, Journal of Environmental Law, Marine Policy) American law reviews (eg, Arizona Law