Portfolio
Overview:
My work sits at the intersection of space systems, environmental risk, and social justice. I focus on how satellite infrastructure, microgravity research, and space-derived ways of thinking can be applied to real-world challenges such as disaster resilience, climate vulnerability, and inequitable access to public services, particularly in disaster-prone regions.
Grounded in an interdisciplinary background spanning engineering, media arts, and policy, I approach space not as an abstract frontier, but as a tool for Earth: a means to understand complex systems better, design more equitable technologies, and support communities facing structural risk.
Across research, experimentation, and communication, my goal is to help expand who can use space-enabled technology and for what purposes so that space systems serve the public good rather than narrow interests.
Core Research and Space Systems
Space Architecture for Disaster Resilience
Socio-Technological Space Policy Research Project
Interdisciplinary research applying space architecture and orbital systems thinking to disaster resilience on Earth. Draws on Space Enabled frameworks, SDG alignment, and human-centred design to explore how space systems can inform equitable infrastructure in disaster-prone regions.
High Altitude Balloon Project for Climate Awareness
Founded, led, designed and executed a stratospheric balloon mission integrating atmospheric science, systems engineering, and storytelling. The project used near-space experimentation as both a technical platform and a narrative tool to communicate planetary risk, climate awareness, and Earth-as-a-system thinking.
Hyperspectral & Satellite Systems for Environmental Insight
Worked at the intersection of satellite data, system modelling (including STK-based thinking), environmental use cases and product marketing. Focused on translating complex sensing capabilities into accessible narratives for climate, land-use, and Earth observation applications.
Orbital Futures: Representation, Justice, and Human Spaceflight
A human spaceflight project examining how identity, representation, and cultural presence translate into microgravity environments. Through participation in a zero-gravity flight, this work explored the embodied experience of weightlessness while foregrounding questions of futurism, visibility, and who gets represented in imagined space futures.
UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs) Involvement
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Nepal Series: Taking Nepal to Space
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Women in Space Leadership Panel Talk
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Engineering Debate Win
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Alissa Rose
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