Cathy is a postdoctoral researcher at the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law. She has a mix of experience: she started her career as a lawyer and for the past years worked in the corporate world. All through her career she remained active in the academic context.
 
In the period 2010-2013, she worked as an energy lawyer at the Brussels Bar (Lydian & Fieldfisher), where she assisted companies in contract drafting, counseling and litigation related to energy (energy contracts, energy markets, development of renewable energy projects, integration of new players in the sector).

From 2013-2017, she was active as a (post)doctoral researcher at KU Leuven and Utrecht University (UCWOSL) ('16-'17) and participated in the STAR-FLOOD project on flood risk management. Her PhD research focused on transboundary water management with the Scheldt and Delaware rivers as case studies and was published as a book with Intersentia.
 
In the past 5 years, she has taken up several positions within a group of companies active in the renewable energy sector (Parkwind (offshore wind energy developer with wind parks in the North Sea and Baltic Sea) and Parkwind's holding company, Virya Energy (incl. onshore wind and H2)). The last few years she was responsible for sustainability management (strategy & (non-)financial reporting), public affairs (incl. permitting) and regulated & energy contracts (such as power purchase agreements and grid connection agreements). 

Cathy is also senior affiliate researcher at the Institute for Environmental and Energy Law (KU Leuven) and combines her academic work with in-house and advisory work in the water- and energy sector. She is part of the editorial team of TOO (Tijdschrift voor Omgevingsrecht- en Omgevingsbeleid).