Coraline obtained a PhD in political science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and Warwick University (UK) (Erasmus Mundus) in 2017 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford University China Center. Her research focuses on China's environmental politics. Previously she studied for an LLM in European, International and Chinese Law at the China University of Political Science and Law and for Master's Degree in European Studies of Institute for European Studies of the ULB.