Berivan completed her PhD at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom where her research focused on the search for life (or its remains) on Mars and the analytical challenges faced by rovers used in these efforts. Berivan was a Science Policy Fellow with the UK Parliament’s Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) based in Westminster. She is now at the UK Space Agency (UKSA) as an International Relations Officer. Within the North America team, her work primarily focuses on UKSA-NASA collaborations across a wide range of space activities but she also supports the UK-Canada collaborations.