Dr. Greg Falco

Prof. Gregory Falco is a Visiting Professor at Bifröst University, where he develops curriculum for the Security Studies and Civil Defence programme, and an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He directs Cornell’s Aerospace ADVERSARY Lab, which develops secure and resilient autonomous drone and space systems. Falco is also NATO Country Director for the Science for Peace and Security Programme’s HEIST initiative, which aims to maintain communications by rerouting traffic through satellites if subsea cables are disrupted. A Fulbright-NSF Scholar, he has been recognised in Forbes 30 Under 30 and received research awards from DARPA and the U.S. Air Force. He previously served on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University and held a visiting scientist appointment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He holds degrees from MIT, Columbia University, and Cornell, and divides his time between Reykjavík and New York.