Bio
Thomas González Roberts is an incoming assistant professor of international affairs and aerospace engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Using tools from observational astronomy and computational astrodynamics, he studies the behaviour of Earth-orbiting satellites to understand how space actors — from superpowers to start-ups — engage with outer-space governance. His research interests include international coordination, sustainability and security in space. Thomas’s work has been supported by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation. He has earned numerous recognitions, including the Prize for Open Data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Geneva Centre for Security Policy’s Prize for Innovation in Global Security and a placement on the Forbes “30 Under 30 in Science” list. He holds a Ph.D. and S.M. in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT, an S.M. in technology and policy from MIT, and a B.A. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University.