Clémence Poirier

Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Clémence Poirier is Senior Researcher in the Cyberdefense Project, part of the Risk and Resilience Team, at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on space cybersecurity, electronic and cyber conflict in outer space, and broader space security and defence issues. Her database of space-related cyber operations is regarded as one of the most comprehensive in the world. Before joining CSS she was a Research Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, seconded by France's space agency CNES, and a researcher at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, where she studied the policy and legal aspects of cybersecurity for Australian space infrastructure. She holds a master's degree in international relations, international security and defence and a bachelor's degree in foreign applied languages, both from Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University in France. She has been a guest lecturer at the NATO Defense College, the University of Oxford, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and ETH Zurich, and sits on the boards of the CyberSat Summit and Women4Cyber Switzerland.