Manuela Bocayuva

Manuela Bocayuva is a jurist, PhD candidate in Law and researcher at NOVA School of Law, NOVA University Lisbon. She holds a Law Degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), a Master’s in International Law and International Relations from the School of Law of the University of Lisbon, and a Master’s in Law and Economics of the Sea from NOVA School of Law, having been awarded the Academic Merit Prize as best student of her Master’s academic year.
She is currently completing her PhD in Law at NOVA School of Law, with a thesis on the decarbonisation of the European maritime-port sector in light of the European Green Deal.

Since 2022, she has been a research assistant at the NOVA Ocean Knowledge Centre, where she has served as project manager and researcher, notably in the Portuguese Blue Biobank Project (funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan – RRP), the Blue Bioprospecting Project (funded by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation) and the Women in the Blue Economy Project (funded by Oceans5).

Previously, she was a researcher at the Study Centre on the Law of the Sea “Vicente Marotta Rangel” (CEDMAR) of the University of São Paulo (Brazil), where she coordinated research groups on flags of convenience and open registries.