Dr. Aleksandar Deejay is a researcher with the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at ANU and the Institute of Space’s (InSpace) Australian Centre for Space Governance (ACSG). His background is in International Relations and Science and Technology Studies, with his current work involving the consideration of different modes of science and technology governance and their social and political ramifications. His current project with the ACSG involves studying the practices, discourses, systems, and outcomes surrounding space technology governance, including the responsible governance of earth observation satellite data.

In 2016 he received his Ph.D. at The University of Melbourne in social and political sciences, where his thesis examined social and political visibility on digital platforms. From 2017-2018 he was a lecturer at Monash University in the Masters of International Relations program, and from 2018-2019 he was the research and program coordinator for The Policy Lab at the University of Melbourne where he worked on several projects involving public sector innovation labs, including an evaluation of a world-first initiative on “innovation craft” in the Australian public sector. In 2020 he began his role at RegNet, where he was also the Graduate Course Convenor for the MREGG and CREGO programs in 2021. Over the past ten years, he has taught courses in international relations, science and technology studies, qualitative methodologies, governance and regulation, and gender studies.