Lucila de Almeida

Lucila de Almeida is Part-time Professor at the European University, being affiliated to the Florence School of Regulation at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies since 2020. At EUI/RSCAS/FSR, Lucila has taken on the role of principal investigator or task leader in several externally funded major research projects, including the European Commission (2025, EC Study on Consumer rights and protection in innovative energy services), Horizon Europe (2024-2028, U2Demo – Use of open-source P2P energy sharing platforms for energy democratisation), the International Energy Agency (2019-2025, UserTCP Global Observatory on P2P, Community Self-consumption, and Transactive Energy Models). Besides the research projects, Lucila is involved in several executive trainings and policy debates at EUI/RSCAS/FSR. Her primary field of research is energy law, with a focus on its private law dimension, including contracts in local, retail and wholesale markets, consumer law, and market integrity (REMIT).

Lucila is also an Associate Professor at NOVA University of Lisbon, NOVSA School of Law, holding the Abreu Chair in ESG Impact, Climate and Energy Law, and coordinating their master’s in international and European Law, and the NOVA Green Lab. She has also been an invited professor at FGV-Rio since 2025. She holds a PhD and an LLM in EU Law from the European University Institute and has licenses to practice law in Portugal and Brazil.

Before joining the faculty at NOVA, Lucila has been a tenured Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Research (2020-2022), Edmond J. Safra Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics at Tel Aviv University (2019-2020), postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki (2017-2019), visiting professor at Università Degli Studi di Padova (2019), and visiting researcher at Louvain Global College Law, UCLouvain (2017).

Lucila is a member of the editorial boards, serving as Associate Editor of Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (Sage Publishing) and editor of Energy Research & Social Science (Elsevier). Her work to date has resulted in numerous publications in international journals such as Yearbook of European Law and Yearbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford Journal), Energy Policy (Elsevier), Transnational Environmental Law (Cambridge Journal), RECIEL (Wiley), and books published with Hart Publishing, Edward Elgar and Springer.