Vasiliki Plessia Aravani

Vasiliki Plessia Aravani is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher and PhD candidate at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien. She is a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel within the EUFOG research project. Her doctoral research examines how emerging technologies and science and technology linkages are reshaping military alliances and broader security arrangements, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific and the European Union’s evolving role in the region. She holds a Master’s degree in International Security from Sciences Po Paris and has previously worked with NATO’s Science and Technology Organisation and the OECD. Her research interests include Indo-Pacific security, alliance politics, military innovation, tech and science diplomacy.