Dr Aleix Nadal is an analyst at RAND Europe on the Defence, Security and Justice team.

His primary research interests include space power, deterrence and escalation dynamics, and the privatisation of security in new operational domains. He is a member of the RAND Europe Space Hub (RESH) team, a cross-RAND centre of excellence for space-related research. He is also affiliated with the Freeman Air and Space Institute.

He holds a Ph.D. in defence studies from King's College London, where he examined the evolving posture of the Royal Air Force (RAF) on outer space since the end of the 1991 Gulf War. He has previously taught for the RAF's officers development programme on air and space power at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He has also taught at the Department of War Studies on Anglo-American grand strategy and statecraft. Before that, Nadal worked as an intern in the European Space Policy Institute (Vienna) and the Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome). He is a NATO Defense College NextGen Future Fellow.