Alice Lopes Fabris

Associate Researcher

Alice Lopes Fabris is an Associate Researcher with the Curia Virides research project. She holds a HORIZON-MSCA post-doctoral project “Mother Earth” at the Brussels School of Government, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, investigating the impact of environmental crimes and human induced disaster on cultural rights of indigenous and afro-indigenous peoples. The supervisors are L. Lizarazo Rodriguez and Doreen Montag from QMUL.

She holds a Bachelor Degree from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) and a PhD from Ecole Normale Superior Paris-Saclay (France). Her Ph.D. thesis dealt with ‘the notion of crimes against cultural heritage in international law’ (La notion de crime contre le patrimoine culturel en droit international), thesis published in 2022 by the Institut Francophone pour la Justice et Démocratie. She worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at UMR 7206 Eco-Anthropologie, at the CNRS/Musee national d'histoire naturelle investigating topics of ecocide and green criminology. 

Alice’s research is focused on the international protection of cultural heritage, reparation of damage to tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and the protection of indigenous’ and local communities' cultural heritage.