Francesca Leucci

Francesca Leucci is a research assistant (postdoc) at the Centre of European Private Law (ZEP) of Graz University and at the Institute for European Tort Law (ETL) under the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

She gained her first law degree in Italy and a second LL.M. in EU Law at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). She is a qualified lawyer admitted to the Italian Bar, she worked as a judge assistant at the Administrative Local Court in Italy and at the Italian Antitrust Authority. Then, she completed a Ph.D. in Law and Economics of ecological damage assessment at Rotterdam, Bologna and Hamburg Universities.

From 2023 to 2025, she was a Lecturer in Environmental Law and Economics at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, coordinating courses of International and EU Environmental Law for social and natural scientists. She is also an Associate Researcher in Environmental Law with the Law Group of Wageningen University and with the Centre for Environment, Economy and Energy (C3E) of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. From September 2025, she is a Lead Author for the IPBES Methodological Assessment on biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning (2025-2027) working on Chapter 6 (policy). She has published papers on environmental damage assessment and liability for ecological and climate damage from a Law and Economics perspective.