We are happy to announce our first research fellow joining YCIE for the 2026-2027 academic year! ⭐

Gabriela Rădulescu is a historian of science and social anthropologist. Her doctoral dissertation (defended in October 2024, Technical University of Berlin), “A History of Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI): Astronautics and Radio Astronomy Across the Iron Curtain (1956-1976),” examined the political origins and history of the scientific field known today as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

During her fellowship, she is focusing on the 1971 Soviet-American Conference on Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, held at Byurakan.