Experience

I have played a key role in the preparation and implementation of over 100 successful EU grant applications and projects.

Contributions towards success

My contributions have encompassed a wide range of activities, including:

Leading proposal preparation and providing technical input for bid writing
Conducting comprehensive proposal reviews to ensure alignment with funder expectations
Preparing and negotiating grant agreements and contracts with suppliers ensuring compliance with funder requirements
Preparing and negotiating consortium agreements to establish clear terms and responsibilities among partners
Coordinating large multi-beneficiary international collaborative projects across diverse sectors
Overseeing the financial and administrative management of grants to ensure efficient resource allocation
Facilitating collaboration with project partners and stakeholders to drive successful project outcomes
Preparing and submitting detailed project reports to meet funder deadlines and requirements, and
Providing expert consultation and advice on legal, financial, and regulatory matters to mitigate risks and ensure compliance

The list below highlights a selection of awarded grant applications and implemented projects. Please note that it is not exhaustive. Where available, links are provided for further details on specific projects. The list is regularly updated to include the most recent Horizon Europe projects awarded.

List of grants

3D Intel-Surgery (Horizon Europe MSCA - Postdoctoral Fellowships) - NEW (2025)

ACCURAT (FP7 – Machine learning) – Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation

ACMod (Horizon Europe MSCA - Postdoctoral Fellowships) - Improving lifetime and decreasing pollution of automotive quenched and partitioned 1180 steel-made components by microstructural and texture tailoring

ACOUSEQ (ERC Proof of Concept Grant) – Acoustics for Next Generation Sequencing

AD-VEC (FP7 Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnership) – Adenovirus Vector Technology: Next Generation Systems for Medical Therapy

AFib-TrainNet (Horizon 2020 MSCA – Initial Training Network) – EU Training Network on Novel Targets and Methods in Atrial Fibrillation

ARTEMIS (Horizon Europe Health - Technologies and Digital Solutions) - AcceleRating the Translation of virtual twins towards a pErsonalised Management of fatty lIver patients

BADGER (Horizon 2020 ICT – Robotics) – RoBot for Autonomous unDerGround trenchless opERations, mapping and navigation

BE-OPTICAL (Horizon 2020 MSCA – Initial Training Network) – Advanced BiomEdical OPTICAL Imaging and Data Analysis

BoneMalar (ERC Consolidator Grant) – Mechanisms of bone marrow sequestration during malaria infection

CfACTs (Horizon 2020 MSCA – COFUND) – Centre for Applied Creative Technologies

CLARA (FP7) – Common Language Resources and their Applications

CLARITY (FP5) – A proposal for cross language information retrieval and organisation of text and audio documents

CNKE (EU IP Office) – Collection of National Key Enforcement Judgments related to IPR

ConsEngMap4_Eff_Well (Horizon Europe MSCA - Postdoctoral Fellowship - Mapping the Full Scope of Consumer Engagement on Social Media for Efficacy and Consumer Wellbeing

COSMIC (ERC Starting Grant) – Commitment, maturation and infectivity of sexual stage malaria parasites in natural infections

DC FlexMIL (Horizon 2020 MSCA Global Fellowship) – Development and Control of Flexible Mode-locked Integrated Laser

DIRECT (Horizon Europe MSCA - Postdoctoral Fellowships) - NEW (2025)

EASTIN-CL (CIP) – Crosslingual and multimodal Search in a Portal for Support of Assisted Living

ECOTELO (ERC Advanced Grant) – The ecological significance of telomere dynamics: environments, individuals and inheritance

ELECTRO-POM (ERC Proof of Concept Grant) – From discovery to scale up of cluster based electrolytes for Ultra-high energy storage flow batteries

ENDOTOX (ERC Starting Grant) – Endosomal dependent transport to the unique secretory organelles of apicomplexan parasites

eRMIONE (eTEN) – E-Learning Resource Management Service for Interoperability Networks in the European Cultural Heritage Domain

ExtremeXP (Horizon Europe – Computing and Big Data) – EXPerimentation driven and user eXPerience oriented analytics for eXtremely Precise outcomes and decisions

EuroTermBank (eContent) – Collection of pan-European terminology resources through cooperation of terminology institutions

EVOdrops (MSCA Innovative Training Network) – Directed EVOlution in DROPS

FLOWTRANS (Horizon 2020 MSCA – Initial Training Network) – Flow in Transforming Porous Media

FoodMAPP (Horizon Europe MSCA – Staff Exchange) – Local Food supply communicated through a transactional searchable MAP based APPlication to promote short food supply chains; food security; business development and reduction in food waste

FOSTER Plus (Horizon 2020 ERA – Training on Open Science) – Fostering the practical implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond

GEMS (Horizon 2020 MSCA – European Fellowship) – The World of the Gáidhealtachd and the origins of the Early Modern British State, 1513-1594

HAPPINESS (Horizon 2020 ICT – Electronics) – Haptic Printed and Patterned Interfaces for Sensitive Surface

iBROW (Horizon 2020 ICT – Future Internet) – Innovative ultra-BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers

IRIS (ERC Consolidator Grant) – Infrared imaging and sensing: the single-photon frontier

KINSHIP (ERC Consolidator Grant) – How do humans recognise kin?

LetsMT! (ICT PSP) – Platform for Online Sharing of Training Data and Building User Tailored MT

Levitate (Horizon 2020 FET Open) – Levitation with localised tactile and audio feedback for mid-air interactions

LoGaCulture (Horizon Europe – Culture and Creative Industries) – Locative Games for Cultural Heritage

MADONNA (Horizon 2020 FET Open) – Microbial deployment of new-to-nature chemistries for refactoring the barriers between living and non-living matter

MaGPIE (Horizon Europe awarded/UKRI funded ERC Consolidator Grant) – Mass Grave Protection, Investigation & Engagement

MANNA (Horizon 2020 MSCA ITN – European Joint Doctorate) – Joint Doctorate in Molecular Animal Nutrition

MCnetITN3 (Horizon 2020 MSCA – European Training Network) – Innovative Network for Monte Carlo Event Generators for LHC Physics

METAPHEN (ERC Advanced Grant) – The ecology of metabolic phenotypes: from cells to populations

MIAUCE (FP6 ICT Multimodal interfaces) – Multimodal Interactions Analysis and exploration of Users within a Controlled Environment

microSPIRE (Horizon 2020 FET Open) – micro-crystals Single Photon InfraREd detectors

MICRO-QPSTEEL (Horizon Europe MSCA - Postdoctoral Fellowships) - Improving lifetime and decreasing pollution of automotive quenched and partitioned 1180 steel-made components by microstructural and texture tailoring

mPOWER (Horizon 2020 Energy) – Municipal Action, Public Engagement and Routes Towards Energy Transition

MultiFluid (Horizon 2020 MSCA – European Fellowship) – Multi-level Multi-phase Fluid Animation

MuMMER (Horizon 2020 ICT – Robotics) – MultiModal Mall Entertainment Robot

NEURICE (Horizon 2020 Food security) – New commercial EUropean RICE (Oryza sativa) harbouring salt tolerance alleles to protect the rice sector against climate change and apple snail (Pomacea insularum) invasion

NEWTON-g (Horizon 2020 FET) – New Tools for Terrain Gravimetry

NITROS (Horizon 2020 MSCA ITN – European Joint Doctorate) – Network for Innovative Training on ROtorcraft Safety

PoroFrac (ERC Advanced Grant) – A high-fidelity isogeometric simulation methodology for fracture in porous media

PRECIOUS (Horizon 2020 Health) – PREvention of Complications to Improve OUtcome in elderly patients with acute Stroke

PRESERVE (Horizon Europe Fighting Crime) - Ethical and Privacy-preserving Big Data platform for Supporting criminal investigations

PRESTIGE (Horizon 2020 Advanced materials) – Design-driven integration of innovative PRinted functional matErialS into inTeractive hIgh-end and fashion consumer Goods addressing tomorrow’s societal challEnges

PROGRESS (Horizon Europe MSCA - Postdoctoral Fellowships) - Predicting the phenotype and genotype responses of freshwater fishes to reconnecting highly fragmented rivers in Europe

PROSPER (Horizon Europe MSCA - Postdoctoral Fellowships) - Predicting the ecological and evolutionary consequences of barriers and fish passes in Europe’s rivers

PULTAR (ERC Proof of Concept Grant) – Delivery of PULmonary Therapeutics through TARgetted Delivery using Phononics

Q-SORT (Horizon 2020 FET Open) – Quantum Sorter

RESOLUTE (Horizon Europe MSCA - Postdoctoral Fellowships) - NEW (2025)

RESONATE (Horizon 2020 – Environment) – RESilient fOrest value chains –enhancing resilience through NATural and socio-Economic responses

ROAM (Horizon 2020 ICT – Future Internet) – Revolutionising optical fibre transmission and networking using the Orbital Angular Momentum of light

S4AllCities (Horizon 2020 – Security) – Smart Spaces Safety and Security for All Cities

SHEER (Horizon 2020 – Environment) – SHale gas Exploration and Exploitation induced Risks

SITless (Horizon 2020 – Health) – Exercise Referral Schemes enhanced by Self-Management Strategies to battle sedentary behaviour

SMART-POM (ERC Advanced Grant) – Artificial-Intelligence Driven Discovery and Synthesis of Polyoxometalate Clusters

SPEED You Up (Interreg) – Students and NEET young people, Professionals and Educators work on Employability and entrepreneurial skills in the battle against school Dropout and Youth UnemPloyment

SPRAYNERGY (ERC Proof of Concept Grant) – Translational synergistic growth factor microenvironments for bone regeneration

SUPERAID7 (Horizon 2020 ICT – Industrial technologies) – Stability Under Process Variability for Advanced Interconnects and Devices Beyond 7 nm node

TAPAS (Horizon 2020 – Food security) – Tools for Assessment and Planning of Aquaculture Sustainability

TeraApps (Horizon 2020 MSCA ITN – European Training Network) – Doctoral Training Network in Terahertz Technologies for Imaging, Radar and Communication Applications

TheraCav (ERC Starting Grant) – Harnessing Cavitation for Therapy

TERAPOD (Horizon 2020 ICT) – Terahertz based Ultra High Bandwidth Wireless Access Networks

TERRE (Horizon 2020 MSCA – Innovative Training Network) – Training Engineers and Researchers to Rethink geotechnical Engineering for a low carbon future

THERMOS (Horizon 2020 MSCA – European Fellowship) – Thermal phenotypes and behavioural syndromes as predictors of resilience to climate change in European freshwater fish

TransPot (Horizon 2020 MSCA – Innovative Training Network) – Translational Research Network in Prostate Cancer

TRIPOD (FP6 IST) – TRI-Partite multimedia Object description

TRUST (FP7 Health) – Multi-modal effects of thyroid hormone replacement for untreated older adults with subclinical hypothyroidism; a randomised placebo-controlled trial

TTC (FP7 ICT) – Terminology Extraction, Translation Tools and Comparable Corpora