Dr. Romina Luz Schaller
born Hermoza Cacsire
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental and Planning Law
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
++49 - 341 - 235 1064
romina.schaller@ufz.de
Research Interests
International Environmental Law
Climate Change Mitigation, in particular focusing on
• Reducing of Emissions from Deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+),
• Negative Emission Technologies (NETs)
Ecosystem services and sustainable development
Professional and Academic Career
since 2020
Researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Environmental and Planning Law
2018 − 2019
Research Fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Environmental Politics
2017
Research Fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Environmental and Planning Law
2011 − 2017
Doctoral Candidate at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Department of Environmental and Planning Law / University of Leipzig; Scholarship by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
2011
Scientific assistant at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Department of Environmental and Planning Law
2007 – 2010
LL.M. in Law of European Integration (LL.M. Eur.), University of Leipzig
2000 – 2006
Bachelor in Law and Political Sciences, San Marcos University, Peru
Current Projects
Governing multi-scale heterogeneities to activate natural carbon sink potentials (GONASIP)
KomUR − Network of Competence on Future Challenges of Enviornmental Law
Completed Research Projects
Helmholtz Climate Initiative – Circular CO2 approaches (HICAM)
⇒ Proambiente II: Contribution to the environmental objectives of Peru
Publications
2022 (2)
- Förster, J., Beck, S., Borchers, M., Gawel, E., Korte, K., Markus, T., Mengis, N., Oschlies, A., Schaller, R., Stevenson, A., Thoni, T., Thrän, D. (2022):
Framework for assessing the feasibility of carbon dioxide removal options within the national context of Germany
Front. Clim. 4 , art. 758628
full text (doi) - Schaller, R., Markus, T., Korte, K., Gawel, E. (2022):
Atmospheric CO2 as a resource for renewable energy production: A European energy law appraisal of direct air capture fuels
Rev. Eur. Comp. Int. Environ. 31 (2), 258 - 267
full text (doi)
2021 (2)
- Markus, T., Schaller, R., Gawel, E., Korte, K. (2021):
Negativemissionstechnologien als neues Instrument der Klimapolitik: Charakterisiken und klimapolitische Hintergründe. Negative emission technologies as new instrument of climate policy: Characteristics and climate policy backgrounds
Nat. Recht 43 (2), 90 - 99
full text (doi) - Markus, T., Schaller, R., Gawel, E., Korte, K. (2021):
Negativemissionstechnologien und ihre Verortung im Regelsystem internationaler Klimapolitik. Negative emission technologies and their location in the regulatory system of international climate policy
Nat. Recht 43 (3), 153 - 158
full text (doi)
2020 (2)
- Markus, T., Schaller, R., Korte, K., Gawel, E. (2020):
Zum regulatorischen Rahmen direkter Abscheidung von Kohlendioxid aus der Luft (Direct air capture – DAC). Projekt 2 | M-P2.1: Rechtliche und ökonomische Anforderungen im europäischen und deutschen Recht
Helmholtz-Klima-Initiative (HI-CAM), Berlin, 8 S.
full text (url) - Schaller, R. (2020):
Klimaschutz durch Walderhalt am Beispiel des REDD+-Mechanismus: Rechtliche Aspekte bei der Umsetzung mit besonderem Fokus auf Peru
Nomos Universitätsschriften Recht 972
Nomos, Baden-Baden, 320 S.