Michael is a co-founder and Executive Director at ERINN with responsibility for all pre-award services. He has over 20 years’ experience in research and innovation (R&I), having worked in developing concepts, putting together consortia, raising funds and managing R&I projects. Michael has coordinated 10 European funded projects in the fields of clean energy and alternative water sources and has been directly involved in hundreds of other projects, proposals and grant funding courses. He co-founcded the company ResourSEAs that is bringing to the market results from a European project on critical raw materials, he has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and he is a co-inventor of 6 patents.