Professor Markos Trichas

Dr Markos Trichas is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Seapower and Strategy focusing on threats to critical spaceborne infrastructure and their impacts to naval and maritime operations. Dr Trichas is the Head of Engineering Future Space C5ISR at BAE Systems. Previously he spent 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 as a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow and three years as a Research Associate at Imperial College London and 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 11,100 citations to his work.