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January 2025
Dr Evie Kendal appointed Fellow of Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense
31 Janurary 2025
Swinburne’s Dr Evie Kendal has been appointed as a non-resident Scowcroft National Security Fellow of the Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense, United States Air Force Academy (USAFA).
US Air Force Academy's Acting Director of the Eisenhower Center, Madison Walker J.D. (Air and Space Law), says the Fellowship is critical to advancing dialogue on space security.
"The Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense's Scowcroft Fellowship is a program designed to gather all of the leading experts in space and national security policy together, to further the conversation of what is next for the space domain and the implications that has on our global security."
Dr Kendal is a bioethicist and public health scientist with expertise in the ethics of emerging technologies, including space ethics. She is a part of the planetary defence global consortium and has collaborated with the US Space Force and Harvard & Smithsonian.
Dr Kendal has written papers on asteroid mining's practical, ethical and environmental issues and has contributed to collections in space ethics, law and aerospace medicine. Her interests include lunar miners' health, artificial gestation in space, genetic modification for astronauts and diversity in the space workforce. She also contributed to the Military Space Ethics text used at USAFA, and her work is featured in courses at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
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