Professor Markos Trichas

Prof Markos Trichas is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Seapower and Strategy focusing on threats to critical spaceborne infrastructure and space C5ISR. Prof Trichas is the Director National Security  and Defence Space at BAE Systems. Previously he spent more than 10 years at Airbus Defence and Space as the Head of UK Future Military Space programs, three years at the High Energy Astrophysics Group at the Harvard - Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and three years at the STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Imperial College London and a Masters in Astrophysics from the University of London. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer reviewed publications and has more than 11,700 citations to his work.