Goran Dominioni is an Assistant Professor in Climate Change Law and Policy (with tenure) at the DCU School of Law and Government. His primary research interests include Carbon Pricing, International Maritime Transport, and Climate Change Law.

He is currently the Principal Investigator of a World Bank-funded project on the implementation of carbon pricing in international shipping and a United Nations Foundation grant on the same topic. In 2022, he was awarded a grant by the Irish Aid Enterprise Fund for International Climate Action to provide training on carbon pricing in international shipping to members of delegations to the International Maritime Organization. He is also a Funded Investigator of the SFI Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water.

His research on carbon pricing has been cited in the Financial Times (behind paywall), The Guardian, and France24, and has received awards from various institutions, including the MIT Climate CoLab (Honorable Mention), ELPAR (Honorable Mention), and the World Bank (Vice President Team Award).

His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Climate Policy, Journal of Environmental Law, and Marine Policy, as well as in American law reviews including the Arizona Law Review and various policy outlets. He is also one of the authors of the World Bank report Carbon Revenues from International Shipping: Enabling an Effective and Equitable Transition.