Humanity space
Associate Fellows
Below is a list of the Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space's valued Associate Fellows, whose expertise, collaboration, and shared vision play a vital role in advancing the Centre’s mission to explore the intersections of humanity and space.
For more information on how to become an Associate Fellow please contact Humanityandspace@le.ac.uk.
Anuradha Damale-Day
Anuradha Damale-Day is a practitioner and researcher whose work bridges space policy, governance, and innovation delivery. Professionally, she works across complex stakeholder environments to align technical ambition with public value outcomes, with experience spanning government engagement, industry partnerships, and ecosystem strategy.Alongside her practitioner work, Anuradha is a PhD researcher at University of Leicester examining responsible behaviour in space and how incentives, institutions, and governance frameworks shape sustainable futures in orbit and on Earth. Her wider interests include industrial strategy, dual-use technologies, international governance, and the role of space-enabled systems in national resilience. Her research draws on science and technology studies, governance, and systems thinking. She is an Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space.
Deden Habibi Ali Alfathimy
Mr Deden Habibi Ali Alfathimy is an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space.Mr Alfathimy is a postgraduate researcher in Politics and International Relations, focusing on outer space politics (astropolitics). He is the recipient of a Future 100 PhD studentship from the University of Leicester's Space Park Leicester Institute, under the supervision of Prof Andrew Futter and Dr Sally Horrocks (University of Leicester), and Dr Bleddyn Bowen (Durham University). His doctoral project studies Indonesian satellite communication development to better understand space policy in the Global Space Age.
Mr Alfathimy is currently on study leave from his role as a space policy researcher at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Government of Indonesia. He joined the Indonesian space agency (National Institute of Aeronautics and Space/LAPAN) in 2018, which was eventually merged into BRIN in 2021. Since then, he has been working on the international dimensions of Indonesian space policies and programmes by closely informing policymakers, conducting academic research, and advocating for space issues.