Cynthia Couette is doing a PhD in cotutelle in Political Science at Laval University and in Regulation and Governance at the Australian National University under the supervision of Prof Jean-Frédéric Morin and Dr Nicholas Frank, respectively.

Her research interests revolve around the role of nonstate actors in the global governance of common goods, focusing on the global governance of health and space. Through her thesis, she looks at the expansion of the roles of public-private partnerships in global health responses. Through her other work, she studies questions in space governance around hybrid organizations, space debris governance, and interactions between the space infrastructure and planetary health equity.

Outside her PhD positions, Cynthia has been working for the chair's project The Polycentric Governance of the Earth's Orbital Space since 2021. She was first responsible for doing interviews before she undertook the coordination of the graphic visualization and analysis team. From March to October 2024, she also worked as Research Officer for the Australian Centre for Space Governance, where she was in charge of cleaning and analyzing data. Cynthia is also a researcher at the Australian Centre for Health Equity, a fellow of the Future Leaders Program of the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, and a member of the Working Group on Earth-Space Governance from the Earth System Governance organization.