Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Dr Brian Cahill is the Managing Director of the Center for Cooperation and Career Management at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He previously worked in the Learning and Skills Analytics Lab of the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover as Grant Manager of the COST Action CA19117 on Researcher Mental Health. He serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of the SciLink Foundation and served as Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association from 2016 to 2018. In these roles, he engaged with early-career researchers on topics ranging from researcher career development, innovation, research funding, science communication, science policy, pension literacy, research integrity, responsible research and innovation and many more.
Project coordination of Career@BI project (including budget planning). 60+ academics are employed by this 9m€ project. Improvement of recruitment and selection processes, structured qualification paths for postdocs who aspire to a professorship.
Evaluation of 2025 MSCA & Citizens Call Remote evaluation of Horizon Europe EIC Accelerator Calls 2022-2026 Jury Member for 2025 European Prize for Women Innovators Remote evaluation of 2022 Horizon Europe Missions National Contact Points Network Call Remote evaluation of 2019 and 2020 H2020 MSCA Individual Fellowship Calls Remote evaluation of 2019 H2020 Next generation organ-on-chip Call of the Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies Programme
SciLink is a not-for-profit organization focused on advancing research careers through skills training and mentorship. Member of Core Team for SciLink Foundation, coordinating EU-wide training/mentoring. Project Officer in PATTERN Horizon Europe Project on open and responsible research and innovation training.
Grant Manager of the ReMO COST Action on Researcher Mental Health Management of European Commission funded research project. Outstanding inter-personal and communication skills within a multi-national context, including diplomacy, discretion and confidentiality Outstanding time management including setting priorities Able to work autonomously and proactively Customer-oriented, Action-oriented, responsible and self-managed
Member of the Management Committee of the Critical Perspectives on Career Guidance COST Action (COCAG) Member of the Management Committee of the Science in Diplomacy Network: implementing multilateral policymaking in intersectoral, cross-disciplinary & strategic domains COST Action (SiDnet)