Dr. Eleni Ekmektsioglou is a Policy Fellow with BASIC’s program on risk reduction and a non-resident fellow with ELIAMEP. At BASIC, Eleni leads their project on emerging technologies, Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and the future of the undersea nuclear deterrent. Before joining BASIC, Eleni was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology and International Security with UC-IGCC and the U.S. National Labs for Nuclear Weapons (LANL and LLNL). Her work examines the reasons behind the variation in military organizations’ reactions to emerging technologies including cases such as adaptation, rejection and/or countering. Her research sheds light on the determinants behind military organizations’ assessments and evaluations of emerging technologies examining a variety of historical and contemporary case studies such as the submarine and the aircraft carrier before WWII, hypersonic weapons and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD). She completed a predoctoral fellowship at George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies (ISCS) while she is a member of a number of policy and academic networks such as SWAMOS, Bridging the Gap, and APSIA. Before she started her Ph.D., she worked for the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris on a research project that looked at transatlantic cooperation in the Asia Pacific region. She was also a Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu doing research on China’s nuclear and naval strategy. She is a member of IFRI’s (Institut Francais des Relations Internationales) Nuclear Strategy Network and also a member of CSIS’ mid-career cadre for nuclear professionals. She holds a master’s degree from the War Studies Department at King’s College London. She is the co-founder of the Emerging Scholars on Emerging Technologies network and she has published both peer-reviewed articles and opinion pieces in journals such as the Pacific Review, the Strategic Studies Quarterly, the National Interest, and the Diplomat Magazine.