Can EU Funding Increase Your Research Footprint?

Professor Reisch was appointed in 2021 as the inaugural El-Erian Professor of Behavioural Economics & Policy and Fellow of Queens’ College. Lucia is a behavioural economist and social scientist, whose work includes research in sustainable consumption, behavioural public policy, and consumers and digitisation.

Lucia is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Policy and has worked on sustainable consumption and other issues with the OECD, the European Commission, the World Bank, various United Nations agencies, and several governments worldwide. As the El-Erian Institute Director, she is giving specific attention to mentoring early career researchers, particularly those currently less represented at the Business School. Lucia has acquired and led more than a dozen large interdisciplinary EU research projects in the past two decades.

Dr Joy leads the Postdoc Academy in its mission to enable postdocs to realise their potential, working with partners across the collegiate University and the research sector to inform, develop, advocate alongside, and foster a sense of community with postdocs.

Since 2020, Steve has been Deputy Director of the Future Leaders Fellows Development Network, a national initiative funded by UKRI to support 450+ research and innovation leaders. He works particularly on leadership training, 360 feedback, and career development.

Previously, Steve worked as an Adviser in the Postdoc and Fellows Development Centre at Imperial College and, for 5 years, in the Postdoc Careers Service at the University of Cambridge. Latterly, he was the Head of Researcher Development at Cambridge. Steve completed a PhD on the fiction of Thomas Mann; he also supervised and lectured for 5 years.

Over the span of his career, Efthymios contributed to the acquisition of over €120 million in research funding tackling several of the biggest challenges of our time and with the solid ambition to help promote the role of social sciences.

Alongside his work as an Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School, he is also the co-founder of White Research and a board member of the think tank OpenForum Europe. Prior to joining Cambridge Judge, he was a research expert at KU Leuven and worked several years in industry and consulting.

Today, he oversees multidisciplinary research teams on more than 25 large-scale EU projects in diverse areas of sustainability, behaviour and technology. With over 15 years of experience navigating various funding instruments, his network extends to more than 300 institutions through contractual partnerships (including partners from the UK like UCL, London Business School and University of Cambridge). He has served multiple times as an evaluator for the European Commission.