2024

The protection and preservation of the marine environment (lecturer), 26 June 2024

Course on the Law of the Sea, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

To use or not to use – Lessons learnt and pathways for non-use measures for global goods and commons in international law (panelist), 21 June 2024

ProAct Antarctic Tourism Symposium, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Mining Impact project 3 - Stakeholders workshop (co-organizer), 19 June 2024

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Sustainable future of the global commons: Equity in governing the Antarctic, the deep seabed, the high seas, and the atmosphere (panelist), 19 April 2024

Fung Global Fellows Sustainable Futures Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Beyond national jurisdiction: What's new with the 'High Seas Treaty' and the deep-sea mineral exploitation regulations? (moderator and co-organizer), 16 April 2024

Panel discussion 'Negotiating and litigation ocean sustainability: challenges and opportunities', Sustainable Ocean Community, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

What is the BBNJ Agreement’s impact on deep-sea mining? (panelist), 5 April 2024

Annual meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), Washington D.C., USA

International Legal Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining (guest lecture), 12 March 2024

Subsea Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Imagining the International Seabed Authority as a Planetary Institution for the Seabed as a Commons (invited participant), 27-28 February 2024

The New Institute, Hamburg, Germany

2023

International Legal Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining (guest lecture), 1 December 2023

Sustainable Ocean Law and Governance, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

Passing the hot potato: Where to mine minerals for an energy transition? (panelist, online), 16 November 2023

Commons in Space Virtual Conference

Meeting of the Task Force on Earth System Law (meeting organizer), 27 October 2023

Task Force & Meeting Day, Nijmegen Conference on Earth System Governance

International Legal Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining (guest lecture, online), 25 October 2023

Engineering Course on Deep-Sea Mining, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Introduction to ocean governance (guest lecture), 24 October 2023

Global Governance of the Earth System, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

International Legal Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining (guest lecture, online), 19 October 2023

Field-based research course on hydrothermal systems and the potential impacts of mineral mining, co-hosted by the Center for Deep Sea Research of the University of Bergen and the University of Athens, Milos, Greece

The Regulation of Deep-Sea Mineral Activities: What Role for Fairness? (speaker), 1 September 2023

18th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law, Aix en Provence, France

Current Developments on Deep Seabed Mining and the Use of Area-Based Management Tools to Protect Hydrothermal Vents (event organizer), 10 May 2023

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Non-use measures for global goods and commons in international law (workshop organizer), 8-9 May 2023

Utrecht, The Netherlands

The new ‘Ocean Treaty’: Set to ensure ocean sustainability? (panelist), 11 April 2023

Sustainable Ocean Science Café, Pathways to Sustainability, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

The Environment and the Law - How international law addresses the Oceans in the era of climate change (invited speaker, online), 14 January 2023

Deerfield Progressive Forum, USA

2022

Biodiversity: BBNJ Negotiations (guest lecture, online), 2 December 2022

Sustainable Ocean Law and Governance, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

The Convention as the framework for ocean governance: As good as it gets or back to the drawing board? (moderator), 17 November 2022

Workshop Filling the legal toolbox for working towards ocean sustainability: UNCLOS, UNCLOS 2.0 and/or what else?, co-hosted by the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea and the Centre for International Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague, The Netherlands

Mineral Exploitation of The Deep Seabed: Solidarity, Commonalities and Self-Interests as Drivers of a New Regulatory Framework (invited speaker and panel organizer), 28 October 2022

51st Annual Conference of the Canadian Council on International Law, Ottawa, Canada

Protecting deep seabed hydrothermal vent fields through area-based management tools: When international law and environmental sciences work together (invited speaker, online), 5 October 2022

IUCN International Environmental Law Conference The Transformative Power of Law: Addressing Global Environmental Challenges, Oslo, Norway

Protecting deep seabed hydrothermal vent fields through area-based management tools: When international law and environmental sciences work together (invited speaker), 27 September 2022

Conference Women in the Law of the Sea, hosted by the International Seabed Authority, New York, USA

Regulating and governing seabed mining (guest lecture, online), 22 September 2022

Online Course on Ocean Governance for Sustainable Marine Ecosystems, co-hosted by the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, the International Ocean Institute (IOI) and the German Development Institute (DIE), Germany

An impression of déjà vu? The common heritage principle in the BBNJ negotiations (invited speaker), 7 September 2022

Conference Equity Perspectives on Global Ocean Law and Governance, Hamburg, Germany 

Deep-seabed mining governance and the protection of the marine environment (guest lecture), 27 June 2022

NIOZ Colloquium and Scientists4Future, Texel, The Netherlands

Consultant, Embedding a Rights of Nature approach into deep-seab mining governance, March-June 2022

University of Essex, UK

UU-NIOZ Early Career Scientists Symposium (UNECSS) (symposium organizer), 16-17 May 2022

Utrecht University (UU) and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)

2021

Protecting deep seabed ecosystems under the future Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of BBNJ and by the ISA – Perspectives of Government, Civil Society, Stakeholders, and Law and Science (workshop organizer, online), 13-15 December 2021

Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS), the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL) of Utrecht University, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)

Protecting Deep Seabed Hydrothermal Vent Fields through Area-Based Management Tools (invited speaker, with Lise Klunder, online), 14 December 2021

Workshop Protecting deep seabed ecosystems under the future Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of BBNJ and by the ISA – Perspectives of Government, Civil Society, Stakeholders, and Law and Science, Utrecht, The Netherlands

The Law of the Sea (guest lecture), 1 November 2021

Student Association Tilia, Utrecht Law College, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Meeting of the Task Force on Earth System Law (meeting organizer, online), 10 September 2021

Task Force & Meeting Day, Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance

Earth System Law: Transformation and law futures (panel chair, online), 8 September 2021

Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance

Experiences in strengthening the science-policy interface (moderator, online), 8 April 2021

Pilot Series on Science for Ocean Sustainability, 2021 UNNF/DOALOS Virtual Activities: Implementing Practical Solutions in Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea

La réglementation environnementale des pêcheries: Quel rôle pour une approche de gouvernance des océans? (guest lecture, online), 1 April 2021

Droit et gouvernance, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

High Seas Resources, Ocean Security, and the Great Powers (panelist, online), 24 March 2021

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), Washington D.C., USA

The environmental regulation of high seas fisheries - A role for an ocean governance approach (invited speaker, online), 18 March 2021

Environmental Law Association Virtual Lecture Series, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

The role of law for the sustainable use of the oceans & The environmental regulation of fisheries (guest lecture, online), 21 January 2021

International and European Environmental Law, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

2020

The elusive search for sustainable high seas fisheries: Combining Values, Regulation and Behaviour (invited speaker, online), 17 November 2020

Workshop Behavioural Approaches in International Law, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

The elusive search for sustainable high seas fisheries (invited speaker, online), 28 October 2020

ITLOS Alumni Series, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg, Germany

The elusive search for sustainable high seas fisheries: What role for an oceans governance approach? (invited speaker, online), 19 October 2020

ESG Seminar Series, Copernicus Institute on Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Virtual Meeting of the Task Force on Earth System Law (meeting organizer, online), 18 September 2020

Task Force & Meeting Day, Virtual Forum on Earth System Governance

Governance of Biological Diversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (invited speaker), 12 February 2020

Workshop Negotiating an Agreement on the Conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht informal meeting on rights and obligations of coastal States (including issues relating to adjacent or subjacent maritime areas) and other States in the BBNJ Implementing Agreement - exploring scenarios and approaches (meeting organizer), 10-11 February 2020

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2019

The elusive search for sustainable high seas fisheries: Exploring alternative regulatory and governance mechanisms (invited speaker), 5 November 2019

Conference The Rule of Law for Oceans, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

The elusive search for sustainable high seas fisheries: Exploring alternative regulatory and governance mechanisms (invited speaker), 25 October 2019

48th Annual Conference of the Canadian Council on International Law, Ottawa, Canada

Institutional Design at the crossroads of Law, Governance and Fairness: What Institutional Architecture for an Instrument on Marine Biological Diversity beyond National Jurisdiction? (workshop organizer), 27-28 June 2019

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2018

Workshop of the Task Force on Earth System Law (workshop organizer), 8 November 2018

Taskforce & Meeting Day, Annual Conference on Earth System Governance, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Three Structural Pillars of the Future Internationally Legally Binding Instrument for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity in ABNJ (invited speaker, with Otto Spijkers and Wen Duan), 21 September 2018

7th Colloquium of the International Association of the Law of the Sea (AssIDMer), Lisbon, Portugal

Fisheries, Capacity Building and Transfer of Marine Technology (invited speaker), 17 May 2018
Workshop High seas governance and fisheries management, Co-hosted by the Nereus Programme Predicting Future Oceans and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), Paris, France

2017

When "not undermining" undermines the BBNJ process: Possible effects of the "not undermining" clause on the outcome of the PrepCom and the upcoming legally binding instrument (invited speaker), 6 September 2017

Interest Group on Law of the Sea, 13th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law, Naples, Italy

2016

The Elusive Search for Sustainable High Seas Fisheries: The role of the Future Regime for Global Oceans Governance (invited speaker), 23 September 2016

Symposium Innovating for Change in Global Fisheries Governance, K. G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway