Constanze Seidel

Constanze Seidel serves as a doctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany, within the Department of Environmental and Planning Law under the Research Unit Environment and Society. She assumed this role in March 2023 after working as a research assistant at UFZ from 2020 to 2023, contributing to the department's legal analysis of emerging environmental technologies and climate solutions.

Her educational background includes:

• First State Examination in Law (erste juristische Prüfung) from the University of Leipzig and National University of Ireland in Galway (2017-2022)

Seidel specializes in international and European environmental law, with concentrated expertise in negative emissions technologies and direct air capture systems (DACCS/DACCU). Her current doctoral research assesses legal frameworks governing direct air capture operations, addressing critical gaps in regulatory governance for climate intervention technologies. This work intersects with UFZ's broader focus on societal transformations toward sustainability, particularly through the Integration Platform and PhD Colleges like GoMo - Governance Monitor, where she engages with cross-sectional topics including Climate Research and Energy Policy Law.

No scientific awards or prizes are documented for Constanze Seidel in the provided information.

As a doctoral researcher, Seidel does not supervise any students. Her work is institutionally funded through UFZ's research program (2021-2027) but specific grants are not detailed in the texts. She actively participates in the department's contributions to environmental law discourse, including preparatory work for events such as the 12th EELF-Conference 2025 on climate adaptation legal strategies.

Seidel operates within the Department of Environmental and Planning Law, a specialized unit in UFZ's Research Unit Environment and Society that maintains memberships in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy for Environmental Law and Deutscher Naturschutzrechtstag e.V. The department collaborates on transdisciplinary projects analyzing environmental law intersections with societal systems, bioeconomy, and climate resilience. Her work directly supports UFZ's mission to develop legally sound pathways for nature-compatible technological deployments in the energy transition.