dr. L. (Lea) Diestelmeier

Lea Diestelmeier was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability, University of Groningen in 2021. She is also funded by the Sectorplan 'the Public-Private Challenge' which is carried out together with the Erasmus School of Law, University of Rotterdam. Her research focuses on EU energy law and in particular electricity sector regulation and decentral solutions for the energy transition. This includes, for example, the changing role of energy consumers and the stake of citizens in the energy sector, and alternative communal organisations participating in activities related to energy, i.e. ‘energy communities’. Beyond the implementation and operation of new technologies, Lea is interested in how energy law can facilitate democratization and justice (see for a detailed overview of research output section on 'research'). Lea obtained her PhD in 2019 at the University of Groningen which was supervised by Prof. dr. Hans Vedder and Prof. dr. Martha Roggenkamp. She is involved in various European and Dutch research projects in the context of which she acts as the (daily) supervisor of several PhD students (see for an overview section on 'projects'). She also teaches in the LLM programme 'Energy and Climate Law', the Bachelor-level minor programme 'Energy Essentials' (see for an overview section on 'teaching') and she supervises various student assistentships and junior researchers.