Thomas Schomerus is Professor of public law at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He studied law at the universities of Hamburg and Göttingen. He started his career as an administrative official for the City of Hamburg, and was appointed professor at the former University of Applied Sciences, Lüneburg in 1996. Since 2004, he has been working as professor of public law, in particular energy and environmental law, at the Sustainability Faculty of Leuphana University. He served as Dean and Academic Dean. Schomerus has worked intensively on cooperation with foreign universities and
institutions. He helped establishing a Georgian-German law course in Tbilisi and an exchange programme with Georgian students. 2005, he was awarded an honorary doctor´s degree by the Georgian Technical University. He has worked as part-time law lecturer in Southampton/UK from 2007-2009, and from 1996 until today he has
overseen a German-American exchange program with an annual summer school. From 2014 – 2021, he worked as part-time Judge at the Higher Administrative Court of Lower Saxony in Lüneburg. 2016, the Humboldt Foundation appointed him as a member of the selection committee for Prospective Leaders in Climate Protection and climate-related Resource Conservation. In 2021, he was elected as a member of the UNECE-Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (ACCC). He published over 300 books and articles on various subjects of environmental and energy law, and he has been working on numerous international and national research projects.
