Leadership & Advisory
Teams, projects & policy
Leading teams and coordinating complex partnerships is part and parcel of my research practice. Over the course of my career, I have had the privilege to build and lead several transnational teams with dozens of partners across sectors. One of the most fulfilling aspects of this, for me, is collaborating to puzzle through complex issues and complicated projects while centering care and connection with colleagues.
As a beneficiary of taxpayer funded research, being accountable for results is also central to my work. I consistently strive to deliver actionable policy advice for government agencies and stakeholders in the U.S. and Europe.
Areas of practice
Research leadership & academic service
Leading international, interdisciplinary teams on European Commission funded research and policy projects — managing across career stages, disciplinary backgrounds, and national contexts. This involves not just assigning tasks and tracking deliverables, but supporting team members to develop professionally, take on progressive responsibilities, and do their best work within complex organizational structures.
Contributing to the organizational life of academic and research institutions — convening curriculum reform processes, launching faculty mentoring programs, serving on hiring committees, and facilitating strategic planning. This work reflects a commitment to the idea that good institutions require active cultivation, not just good research output.
Multi-partner project coordination
Coordinating large, multi-organizational research consortia — bringing together research institutes, universities, NGOs, SMEs, and civil society organizations across national and cultural contexts. This work requires active facilitation of cross-partner communication, managing reporting obligations to funders, and sustaining shared mission across organizations with different strengths, working styles, and incentive structures.
Policy advising & expert consulting
Advising governments, national academies, and international institutions on questions of science and innovation policy. This work spans formal advisory roles within European Commission programs and consulting engagements with U.S. federal agencies — translating research on governance and public engagement into concrete recommendations for policy design and implementation.
Grant acquisition
I have led or been involved in acquiring and managing external funding from competitive European Commission programs, national science agencies, and U.S. government sources. The figures below reflect career totals; projects span topics of democracy, climate and environmental ethics, AI governance, and science and technology policy.
Selected project & advisory record
- 2025–2028 YouthDecide 2040: Visions of Democracy with and for Future Generations — Project Coordinator. 11-partner Horizon Europe consortium co-creating pathways to preferred futures of EU democracy with and for young people. Grant Agreement No. 101177438 · €4.33M
- 2025–2029 RobustIfAI: Robustifying Generative AI Through Human-Centric Integration — Senior Investigator. Social science and humanities application of a serious game on ethics and societal impacts of AI foundation models. Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No. 101212818 · €7.7M total
- 2024–2027 RE4GREEN: Research Ethics and Integrity for the Green Transition — Work Package Leader. Developing an ethics and integrity framework to better account for environment and climate considerations in European R&I funding. Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No. 101131706 · €3.2M
- 2024–2028 RRI Advisers for the Horizon Europe Partnership ERA4Health and M-ERA.NET3 — Co-PI. Supporting the Research Council of Norway in evaluating and advancing responsible research and innovation practices in two European Research Area funding instruments. €90,700
- 2023–2025 3C-AZ: Consent-Based Nuclear Waste Siting Evaluation — Component Lead. Supporting the U.S. Department of Energy in surfacing tacit knowledge from a consent-based approach to community engagement on high-level nuclear waste siting. Includes supervision of a PhD student conducting formative evaluation. U.S. Department of Energy
- 2023–2024 Expert Advisor, Societal Readiness Task Force — European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. Advised on design and piloting of the Societal Readiness approach in Horizon Europe Cluster 5 (Climate, Energy and Mobility) funding programs.
- 2018–2022 NewHoRRIzon: European Responsible Research and Innovation — Work Package Leader. Led synthesis of findings on integrating RRI into European Commission policy; recruited and facilitated two transdisciplinary social labs across research, government, and industry. Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement No. 741402
- 2016 Consultant, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate — National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Conducted research to inform a Committee report to the U.S. Global Change Research Program on the legacy of program accomplishments.
- 2014 Consultant, Climate Change Preparedness Team — White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Supported the State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience; synthesized 150+ recommendations into seven themes for a report to the President. Responsible for drafting the executive summary, section introductions, synthesis, and appendices.
- 2014 Program Evaluation Consultant — Summer Policy Colloquium, American Meteorological Society (AMS). Conducted summative evaluation of the Society's two-week summer program for graduate students, professors, and practitioners; co-authored report to the Society president.
Inviting connection about collaborative leadership, policy, and practice.