Niels Stensen Fellowship awarded to Katja Zimmermann for research ‘The Sky is Not the Limit: Towards a Sustainable Vision of Property Rights in Outer Space’
Since the 1960s, 7 Niels Stensen Fellowships (Porticus) have been awarded annually to excellent and socially engaged postdoc researchers to enable them to gain research experience at a top university abroad at the beginning of their scientific careers
For the academic year 2023-2024, a Niels Stensen Fellowship has been awarded to Dr. Katja Zimmermann. She will use the Fellowship to conduct interdisciplinary research at KU Leuven (Centre for Catholic Social Thought) at the intersection of property law and moral theology to develop a sustainable framework for property rights in space.
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