Danae Georgoula is a PhD Candidate at Utrecht University affiliated to the Utrecht Center for Water, Oceans, and Sustainability Law, and the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea. Her research focuses on the scope of judicial jurisdiction under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Danae studied Law (LL.B, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) in Athens and in Utrecht (LL.M in Public International Law, Utrecht University) and Urban and Regional Planning also in Athens (Postgraduate Degree of specialisation, National Technical University of Athens). She previously worked as a legal trainee and as a legal consultant in both private practice and public administration. She is a member of the Bar in Athens, Greece.