
Clémence Poirier is a Senior Cyberdefense Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich.
Prior to joining CSS, she was a Research Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, Austria where she conducted multidisciplinary research on space affairs. She worked as a Researcher for Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia where she carried out policy and legal research on the cybersecurity of the Australian space infrastructure. She is an Advisory Board Member of the Cyber Sat Summit and a Member of the Space and Cyber Project Group of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC). Her research interests include space cybersecurity, electronic and cyber conflict in outer space as well as broader space security and defense issues.
Clémence holds a Master’s degree in International Relations, International Security and Defense as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Foreign Applied Languages (English, Russian, Spanish) from University Jean Moulin Lyon III, France.