<p><span class="p-body">DeLaine Mayer works at the intersection of climate, energy, and space technology, focusing on the geopolitics, commercialization, and deployment of emerging technologies addressing complex global challenges. Her career spans energy infrastructure, industrial decarbonization, and advanced biomaterials, including leadership roles at Nebula Energy, Full Cycle Bioplastics, and Genecis Bioindustries. She has built strategic partnerships across industry, government, and research institutions to advance technologies from development to commercial deployment. Mayer is an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, where she developed and teaches Astropolitik: The Politics, Policies, and Technologies of Outer Space. She is also developing The Geopolitics of Extreme Environments: Exploration, Technology, and Power from the Poles to Space. Her work examines how geopolitics, technological innovation, and resource interests shape exploration, economic development, and dynamics of global cooperation and competition. Mayer is a 2021 NASA iTech Winner, 2026 Atlantic Council Millennium Leadership Intensive participant, 2026 KOSMICA Institute Space Humanities Fellow, and incoming 2027 Carnegie Council Ethics Fellow.</span></p>