Dr. Brian Cahill is the Managing Director of the Center for Cooperationand Career Management at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciencesand Arts. He is also a part of the Learning and Skills Analytics Group at the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in Hannover. He was Grant Manager of the COST Action CA19117 on Researcher MentalHealth. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the SciLinkFoundation and was Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association from March 2016 to February 2018. In these roles, he engaged with early-career researchers on topics ranging from researcher career development, innovation, research funding, science communication, science policy, researcher pensions, research integrity, responsible research andinnovation and many more.
He has written a career column for Nature and been invited to speak at many career-related events, including theEuroScience Open Forum, the AAAS Meeting and the Vitae Researcher Career Development Conference. He studied Mechanical Engineering in Ireland and moved to Germany in 1998 to take up a position with Hewlett Packard. He received his PhD forwork in electrokinetically-driven fluid flow from the ETH Zurich in 2004 and subsequently carried out postdoctoral research in colloid andinterface science at the University of Geneva. He was a Marie Curiefellow and Junior Research Group Leader at the Institute for Bioprocessing and Analytical Measurement Techniques in HeilbadHeiligenstadt (Germany), where his research interests focussed onmeasurement techniques for droplet-based microfluidics.
