EU Liaison Officer Supports Top-Quality Materials Research
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EU Liaison Officer Supports Top-Quality Materials Research Julie Nucci Materials research deserves to the accurate restoration of hisbe funded. However, securing toric Baroque and Medieval pipe European funding can be a chalorgans. In addition, this past lenging task since researchers are May I was selected as an Expert often overwhelmed by the comEvaluator for Specific Targeted plicated proposal preparation Research Projects in Nanoprocess. A little over a year ago, I sciences. After spending a week assumed this and related tasks in Brussels evaluating proposals, when I became the European I gained significant insight into Union (EU) Liaison Officer for the how a successful proposal is conMax Planck Institutes for Metals structed and written. It was a and Solid State Research in great training opportunity and I Stuttgart, Germany. I inform strongly recommend that reresearchers about the European searchers take advantage of such Union’s various research proevaluation opportunities. This is grams, support proposal preparaparticularly useful for young tion and consortium construction, researchers since it will likely and lobby the interests of these improve their success rate for the Max Planck Institutes as new many proposals ahead of them in work programs are prepared in their careers. Brussels. Although my training is A career in materials can take nearly all scientific, I found that on many forms. Mine began with this job requires strong marketa bachelor’s degree in materials ing skills: Research projects must engineering from Rennselaer be packaged such that they meet Polytechnic Institute and corponot only the scientific requirerate positions as a CMOS process ments, but also the political and engineer at National Semiconsocietal requirements of the ductor Corporation and a failure European Union as well. analyst in the Semiconductor The nonscientific requirements Acquisition and Test Division of of an EU proposal reflect recent Digital Equipment Corporation. changes in European research Through the Graduate EngiJulie Nucci is the European Union (EU) Liaison Officer for the policy. The European Research neering Education Program at Max Planck Institutes for Metals and Solid State Research in Area, launched at the Lisbon Digital, I received a master’s Stuttgart, Germany. European Council in March degree in applied physics from 2000, was created to unify sciHarvard University. I continued German national representatives is imporence and technology policy across the shift from engineering to science with tant in order to receive early and “grey” Europe. Main objectives of the 6th a PhD degree in materials science from information, understand critical factors for Framework Programme, which governs Cornell University. I have held a lecturing success, provide input into future research research funding from 2002 to 2006, position in the Materials Science and programs, and obtain assistance along the include “strengthening the scientific and Engineering Department at Cornell long road to proposal complet
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