Paul is an external collaborator of the Institute for Manufacturing.  He is a science and innovation policy researcher and strategist with a PhD in Microelectronics from University College Cork and an MPhil in Public Policy from Cambridge University.  His early career was in nanotechnology, investigating novel materials for electronics, both in academic and industry research setttings.  As a Senior Researcher with Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge, he worked on the Morph reconfigurable mobile device concept, filed 11 patents and led several technology-transfer collaborations.

His early policy-facing roles were in the Institute for Manufacturing, with the CSTI and CIM research groups.  During this time he authored reports for UK government agencies on quantum strategy, and intenational manufacturing policy, and won a Best Paper Aware from the International Journal of Production Research.

Paul has since held leadership positions bridging innovation, strategy and policy.  As Project Lead at the World Economic Forum, he managed the Global Future Council on the Future of Production and co-authored the white paper "Technology and Innovation for the Future of Production" (Davos 2017).  He later served at Senior Research Fellow at the University of Limerick and as Strategic Insights Lead at Research Ireland.  His current interests include strategic roadmapping, geopolitical risks and knowledge transfer.  He has over 20 peer-reviewed publications.

Selected publications

1. Distributed manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities(2016), International Journal of Production Research 
2. Transparent, flexible and solid-state supercapacitors based on room temperature ionic liquid gel (2009), Electrochemistry Communications
3. Ink-jet printing of carbon nanotube thin film transistors(2007), Journal of Applied Physics
4. DNA-templated assembly of conducting gold nanowires between gold electrodes on a silicon oxide substrate(2005), Chemistry of Materials
5. Magnetic-field-directed growth of CoPt3 nanocrystal microwires (2005), Advanced Materials
6. Insulator-to-metal transition in nanocrystal assemblies driven by in situ mild thermal annealing (2004), Nano Letters 

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