Yu Chuxiao is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Utrecht since November 2016, working on the project entitled “The International Legal Regulation of Marine Scientific Research against the Background of Technological Transformation” under the supervision of Prof. Alex Oude Elferink and Dr. Otto Spijkers. She is going to explore to what extent does the current legal framework regarding MSR provide effective regulation to the newly emerging research methods, and by means of which (if additional) regulatory arrangement, can any deficiencies in the current regime be overcome?

Chuxiao obtained her Bachelor of Laws Degree in 2012 (with distinction) and Master of Laws Degree majored in environmental law in 2015 (with distinction) from Wuhan University, China. 

She is now a member of the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) and the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL).