María Eugenia Sanin leads international research projects and supervises numerous PhD students at the University of Paris Saclay. She has been a consultant in energy and environment for multilateral organisations as well as for the public and private sector in America, Europe and Africa. A post-doctoral fellow at Ecole Polytechnique, María Eugenia Sanin holds a PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven and a BA from the Uruguayan University UDELAR.