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Principal Investigator of SPACE-Gov
Dr Nikita SW Chiu FRSA FHEA
Dr Nikita Chiu is Senior Lecturer in Innovation Policy at the University of Exeter. In 2019, she was named Ad Astra Distinguished Fellow in Robotic and Outer Space Governance by the Space Engineering Research Center at USC. Trained in Cambridge and Geneva, Dr Chiu had previously conducted research at Oxford, Durham, Vienna, and Trinity College Dublin. She read Technology Policy at St Edmund’s College at the University of Cambridge, and gained her PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in 2014.