Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
2021 - present
Research fellow, Max Planck Fellow Group 'Environmental Rights in Cultural Context', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
2015 - 2021
Scientific project collaborator, Department for International Economic Law and Environmental Law, Institute for International Law and European Law, Faculty of Law, University of Goettingen, Germany
2017 - 2018
Visiting research fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2011 - 2013
Team leader and legal advisor for the office of the congresswoman María Molina Crespo, National Assembly Ecuador
2009 - 2011
Legal advisor to the Vice-Presidency of the Commission on Biodiversity and Natural Resources, National Assembly Ecuador
2008
External legal advisor for the Refugee General Direction at the Ecuadorean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Ecuador
2007 - 2008
Refugee eligibility officer, Refugee General Direction of the Ecuadorean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador
2005 - 2006
Legal assistant, National Council for State Modernization and Privatization (CONAM), Ecuador
2002 - 2006
Academic assistant at the Department of Constitutional Law, Pontifical Catholic University (PUCE), Faculty of Law, Ecuador
2002 - 2003
Academic assistant at the Human Rights Clinic, Pontifical Catholic University (PUCE), Faculty of Law, Ecuador
Education
2015 - 2021
PhD in Law (Dr. iur.), supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll, University of Goettingen, Faculty of Law, Germany
Dissertation title (written in English): “Human Rights and the Environment in Latin America and the
Caribbean: Environmental Human Rights under the American Convention on Human Rights and the
Escazú Agreement on Access Rights” (Grade for both thesis and disputation: Summa cum laude)
2013 - 2015
Master of Law (LLM) with focus on International Human Rights Law, Environmental Law and Policy
and Constitutional Law, University of Goettingen, Faculty of Law, Germany
Thesis title (written in German): “The Protection of the Environment in the Inter-American Human
Rights System” (Grade thesis: good; grade defense: very good)
2008 - 2009
Official Master’s Degree in Legal Sciences with focus on International and Constitutional Law, University Pompeu-Fabra, Faculty of Law, Barcelona, Spain
Thesis title (written in Spanish): “The Application of the Refugee Definition of the Cartagena
Declaration through Ecuador´s Enhanced Registration Mechanism” (Grade: 9/10, very good)
2001 - 2006
Fully qualified lawyer (Grade 10/10, excellent) and Bachelor of Law (Grade: 9/10, very good), Pontifical Catholic University (PUCE), Faculty of Law, Ecuador
Thesis title (written in Spanish): “Military Justice: Jurisdiction ratione materia of the military
Ecuadorian courts from the perspective of the Inter-American Human Rights System” (Grade: 15/15,
excellent)
Conference Presentations - a selection
2021
“From Intercultural Dialogue to Eco-Democracy”. Roundtable Discussion on Environmental
Rights – Perspectives from Law and Anthropology, at the Law and Society Association
Annual Virtual Conference ‘Crisis, Healing, and Re-Imagining’.
“Environmental Degradation and Pandemics: New Regional Milestones for Protecting
Humans and Nature”. Seminario El Reto de la Protección de los Derechos Humanos en
Tiempos de Pandemia de COVID-19 organized by various Ibero-American Universities.
2020
“Environmental Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean”. Research Group
Environmental Rights in Cultural Context, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,
Halle (Saale), Germany.
2018
“Public Participation in Environmental Decisions: Europe and Latin America - A
Comparative Perspective”. Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural
Resource Governance, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Scholarships and Awards - a selection
2020
PhD STIBET finishing grant of the Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany
2014 - 2018
Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates and Young Academics and Scientists of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany
2008 - 2009
Scholarship from the Spanish Carolina-Foundation for the Official Master’s Degree in Legal Sciences (LL.M.), Spain
2005
Best Memorial in the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition, American University, Washington College of Law, United States
2004
Best Memorial in the Ibero-American International Law and Human Rights Competition “Francisco Suárez”, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Faculty of Law, Colombia
Languages
Spanish Native speaker
English Excellent command
German Excellent command
Portuguese Very good command