Ravindra Desai currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick and an Honorary Researcher at the British Antarctic Survey. Since October 2017, Ravindra has also been affiliated with Imperial College London as an Academic Visitor and Research Associate. Prior experience includes a role as Emerging Technologies Associate at Outsmart Insights from April 2017 to March 2021, and a position as Invited Researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for a brief period in 2017. Additionally, Ravindra held the position of Vela Research Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the summer of 2015, and participated in satellite navigation placement at Telespazio VEGA UK as well as a bid support internship at MAN Diesel & Turbo in 2012. Ravindra Desai holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from UCL (2014-2018) and a Master's in Aerospace Engineering from Queen Mary University of London (2010-2014).