Merve Erdem Burger holds a PhD in international law and is currently conducting research as a post-doctoral fellow at the Chair of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Neuchâtel. Before coming to Switzerland, she has been a research assistant at the Department of International Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ankara from 2011 to 2022. Her research focuses on international space law, its relationship with general international law, and the implementation of international space law in national law.