B.A. (European School of Brussels), M.S. (State University of Milan), Ph.D. (Aarhus University)

Sandra is Associate Professor in International, Environmental, and Energy Law. She was appointed Lead Author on Environmental Governance and Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic) at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) United Nations. She specializes in environmental damage and liability problems in a multilevel context.
Her expertise is on environmental regime effectiveness in a multi-level governance perspective with a focus on energy law, human rights, law of the sea, and environmental security (particularly that of the Arctic Ocean).

Sandra is also Adjunt Professor of Law, School of Law, Western Sydney University (Sydney, Australia), Fellow at the Sustainability College Bruges – SCB (Belgium), Expert Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy, ISDP working on the Sino-Arctic Research Programme (Stockholm, Sweden), Member of the Governamental Panel of Assessemnt for the Academy of Finland, Expert at the European Commission (DG Clima Adaptation) and invited speaker at the European Parliament, Associate Adjunct Associate Professor in Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide (Australia) in the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources in the Division Energy and Innovation.