Gergana Stoeva

Gergana Stoeva is a Research Assistant at The Arctic Institute. She is working on assessing status and opportunities within Fisheries and Aquaculture in North Norway as part of the AlaskaNor project. In addition, she has been assisting TAI’s Editorial team in the article publication process.

Currently based in Trondheim, Norway, her research interests include international law of the sea, marine environmental protection and protection of the biological diversity, as well as regional cooperation in the Polar regions. She has past experience from the field of marine plastic pollution research, has contributed for identifying measures taken against plastic, and for her master’s thesis she has researched an innovative technology for extracting plastic pollution from the ocean and its interaction with the law of the sea regime.

Gergana holds a Master’s degree in International Law of the Sea (LL.M.) from UiT Norway’s Arctic University in Tromsø, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Law at Sofia University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Scandinavian Studies from the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology at Sofia University.

In addition, she has special interest for Scandinavian languages and linguistics, and is passionate about foreign language communication and education, with emphasis on Norwegian as a foreign language, which she teaches parallelly to her research.