Dr Damon Coletta currently serves as Director, Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies and was the inaugural Scowcroft Professor of Political Science, 2020-21 at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), USA. Dr Coletta also serves as the Social Sciences liaison to USAFA’s nationally recognised ‘Nuclear Weapons & Strategy’ programme; and is the author of Courting Science: Securing the Foundation for a Second American Century (Stanford University Press, 2016). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Duke University; a Master’s in Public Policy (S&T) from the Harvard Kennedy School; and a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA.