Martje Köppen
Other affiliations
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Environmental Law Discussion Group
Biography
Martje Köppen is a Dean's Scholar at the Faculty of Law and the Ann Kennedy Scholar of Lady Margaret Hall, reading for her DPhil in Law at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, where she researches the (contested) role of law in the 'Net Zero' transition. Her research covers:
- EU legislation of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
- Interjurisdictional relations of international law, EU law and Member State law in CDR's legal landscape
- Integration of CDR in carbon markets, specifically the EU-ETS
- Legal dimensions of the decarbonisation of the energy and industry sector's hard-to-abate process emissions
Next to her DPhil, since 2024, Martje has been working on the German negative emissions strategy 'Langfriststrategie negative Emissionen'. Before joining Oxford in 2023, she worked for the German government on the conceptualisation and establishment of Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs) 'Förderrichtlinie Klimaschutzverträge'.
Martje holds a German law degree from Bucerius Law School (Scholar of the German Government) and graduated as valedictorian from the MSc in Environmental and Energy Technology at Imperial College London, where she received the President's Trust Imperial Scholarship and the Turing Scholarship.