Fanny Vanrykel holds a PhD in environmental law, funded by the F.N.R.S-F.R.S. She successfully defended her thesis entitled “The illusive simplicity and straightforwardness of carbon taxes: a legal analysis” in October 2022, under the supervision of Delphine Misonne and Patrick Wautelet. Fanny is an associate researcher at the CEDRE (USL-B, Belgium) but currently lives in Ecuador where she has gained a practical perspective on environmental protection by volunteering with an NGO called Tierra Nativa, in Las Tunas, which aims to create the conditions for local communities’ empowerment and harmony with(in) living ecosystems. Fanny has several years of experience in academia, with a key interest in environmental policies (mainly climate change). Before starting her PhD, she worked as an assistant in the Public and Constitutional Law Department and, as a researcher at the Tax Institute ULiège, conducted legal analyses for a multidisciplinary research project on climate mitigation policies (ALPI, Belspo financing). She holds a Master of Law in Public and Administrative Law at the University of Liège and a LLM at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) in International and Comparative Law. During her studies, she followed an Erasmus program at UGent (Belgium) and at the University of Vilnius (Lithuania). Fanny’s research has been awarded multiple prizes. She has also contributed to the redaction of policy relevant studies for public authorities.