Emerging Technology for Sustainability and Health
As an EU Marie Curie Fellow, I worked at the European Commission DG Joint Research Centre's headquarters in Brussels (Belgium) and at Grenoble School of Management (France), where I conducted research and evaluation of emerging technologies for social and economic impact, particularly in the areas of environmental sustainability and health.
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My work at the European Commission was aimed at spurring more innovation, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and investing in bio and climate technologies across Europe. My focus was particularly on the EU multi-billion Euro research & innovation fund Horizon 2020, which significantly invested in technologies for the environment and human health. I also advised JRC leaders on topics of emerging technology, technology transfer and venture creation.
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As part of such work, I collaborated with a number of partner organizations that were very active in terms of researching, developing, and bringing emerging technologies to the global markets. Among them were companies such as Intel, Siemens, GSK, as well as top European universities such as IE Business School and Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and research labs such as the Fraunhofer Institute and CERN.
Together with colleagues from Grenoble School of Management, Bocconi, and CERN, I also conducted research at the intersection of management, sociology, science and innovation policy, and philosophy of science and technology, which was disseminated through various conference proceedings and a publication with Edward Elgar Publishing as part of a book on the management of emerging technologies for socio-economic impact put together by a number of Marie Curie Faculty & Fellows from around Europe.
As the above research evolved, leveraging information and network science and computational techniques, I inspired and later supported CERN in launching Collaboration Spotting, a data analytics platform designed to help scientific labs and companies identify new research pathways and collaborators to accelerate interdisciplinary research and technology transfer. This platform has been utilized across various fields, and CERN has recognized CollSpotting as one of its success stories.
