Erik van Doorn

Erik van Doorn is a research associate at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at Kiel University and a postdoctoral researcher at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, both in Germany. He studied in Groningen, Utrecht and Tromsø. Erik has worked in the legal office of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. In his research, he focuses on marine resources, marine spatial planning, aspects of marine uptake of carbon dioxide and the framework for ocean observing. Since 2017, Erik has been member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the international project Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS).