Jessie Uhlenbeck is a junior researcher in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She supports the REGLOBE project by focusing on economic and power relations in astro-political affairs. 

She holds an MSc in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her master's thesis, supervised by Naná de Graaff, examined Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP).