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Alumni Fellows
Caterina Benini
Caterina Benini is a post-doctoral researcher and adjunct professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. She is genuinely interested in all fields of private international law. Recently Ms. Benini has been working on the impact of national laws upon the functioning of EU private international law; the law applicable to choice of court agreements; climate change litigation; the intersection of domestic violence and international child abduction; the evolution of public policy vis-à-vis the recognition of punitive damages judgments.
Her website is available here.
María González Marimón
María González Marimón is an assistant professor of Private International Law at the University of Valencia. Her field of research is EU Private International Law in family matters. In particular, her main line of research is the protection of children’s rights and the best interest of the child principle in EU cross-border family proceedings. More broadly, she is interested in the situation of vulnerable persons involved in cross-border situations, studying Private International Law from a Human Rights approach.
Her website is available here.
Augustin Gridel
Augustin Gridel is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of Nancy (Univ. Lorraine). He is specialized in financial law, company law and insolvency law, from a French, European and international perspective. In those areas, he is interested as much in international civil procedure as he is in the conflict of laws. He also investigates international conflict of authorities from a regulatory perspective.
Biset Sena Güneş
(c) Johanna Detering, MPI Hamburg
Biset Sena Güneş is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Centre of Expertise on Turkey at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. She studied law at the University of Istanbul. She obtained her LL. M. from Queen Mary University of London and her doctorate from the University of Regensburg with a comparative law dissertation on international successions. Her research interests include international family and succession law, international civil procedural law, digitalisation and law, sustainability law and international contract law.
Her website is available here.
Markus Lieberknecht
Markus Lieberknecht is an assistant professor of private law and civil procedure law in the age of digital transformation at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Aside from these areas, his research focuses on private international law. In particular, he is interested in international clvil procedure law, international company law, business & human rights and cross-border private enforcement of EU tech regulation.
His website is available here.
Antonia Sommerfeld
Antonia Sommerfeld is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (Germany), and a lecturer at the University of Hamburg. Her main fields of research lie in the area of Private International Law and Private Law with a special focus on Contracts, Commercial Law, Sustainability and Circular Economy.
Her website is available here.