A. (dr. Aikaterini [Katerina]) Tsampi, PhD

Bio

Dr. Aikaterini S. Tsampi is currently an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Groningen. She was awarded, in 2017, a PhD in Human Rights from the University of Strasbourg - Institut de Recherches Carré de Malberg, France (PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. P. Wachsmann). She has undertaken LLM studies in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Paris II/Panthéon-Assas, France (LLM thesis under the supervision of Prof. J.F. Flauss) and in Specialised Public Law at the University of Bordeaux IV, France and University of Athens, Greece (LLM thesis under the supervision of Prof. O. Dubos and Prof. D. Szymczak). She holds an LLB from the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens. A part of her undergraduate studies was undertaken in the University of Strasbourg, France (Notions Fondamentales de Droit International, Européen et Comparé).

From 2013 until 2017, Dr. Tsampi had been employed as a Legal Officer at the Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR), publishing thus, various reports and studies pertaining to human rights law and collaborating with international organizations and national human rights stakeholders. In her capacity as an independent researcher, she has been involved in different human rights projects and activities (e.g. UN Human Rights Committee). She has been qualified as a trainer by the CoE HELP program and she is a qualified lawyer at the Rhodes Bar Association.

She has received different scholarships (i.e. Ile-de-France, Paris, “Bourse d’excellence”, C. Fanourakis Foundation (CFF), Greece). She speaks Greek (native speaker), English, French and Italian.