Aster Veldkamp (1965) obtained her Master's degree in Dutch law (private law) from Leiden University, with electives in environmental science, environmental law and European environmental law. In 1998, she obtained her PhD from Utrecht University with a thesis on the (trans)national implementation and enforcement of European waste law. She then worked as an independent legal advisor on environmental law (Veldkamp Juridisch Advies until 2008), as a strategic legal advisor on environmental law (Royal HaskoningDHV until 2017) and as a senior policy lawyer on circular economy and waste (Rijkswaterstaat until 2021). She has a broad knowledge of European and national environmental law, with a focus on water law, waste law, circular economy law (including extended producer responsibility), recovery of raw materials and energy from (waste) water and the use of instruments under the Dutch Environment and Planning Act (Omgevingswet).
Since September 2021 she has been working as an Associate Professor of Environmental Law at UU/REBO/Department of Law/Department of State and Administrative Law and Theory of Law. She teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate law programmes. In addition, as a researcher at the Utrecht University Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL), she is involved in conducting and supervising various research projects, both second- and third-funded research, as well as doctoral research on the basis of a start-up grant for UDs awarded to her in December 2022. She is also a tutor at the Honours Programme of the Utrecht Law College.