Elisa Fiorini Beckhauser is a Ph. D. Student in Law and Sustainability and Teaching Assistant at the Legal Sciences Department of the University of Salento (Italy), where she researches coloniality and climate, analyzing vulnerabilities and human rights strategies in Latin American climate litigation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), where she worked as a scientific initiation fellow at the Council for Scientific and Technological Development, focusing her research on the intersection of climate science and the legal framework from the prism of human rights law. During this period, she was also a Visiting Researcher at the Euro-American Didactic Center on Constitutional Policies of the University of Salento (Italy).
Elisa is engaged in plural initiatives on climate change and environmental law. She is a member of the Latin American Climate Lawyers Initiative for Mobilizing Action (LACLIMA) and the Global Network of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), co-organizer of the Latin American Observatory on Human Mobility, Climate Change, and Disasters (MOVE-LAM), expert of the Harmony with Nature Network (HwN) of the United Nations in the Young-Professional category in Earth-Centered Law, and co-lead of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) Early Career Specialist Group in the project ‘Next-generation environmental law research’.

At the CMCC Foundation, she is affiliated with the Information Systems for Climate science and Decision-making (ISCD) Division, and carries out research on projects related to European climate risk assessment.