Designing large-scale research infrastructure proposals for national funding programmes. The work spans the full lifecycle: scientific case development, landscape analysis, consortium building, governance modelling, facility blueprinting, long-term sustainability planning.
Institutional diplomacy
Each proposal is an exercise in matching ambition to political reality. Negotiating access models across organisations with different incentives. Building the coalition that can actually deliver.
A consortium is not assembled by listing partners. It is assembled by understanding who needs what from whom, what each party is willing to put on the line, and where the shared interest is durable enough to survive the first hard meeting.
What lands
A proposal lands when the science case is convincing and the operating model is credible. Reviewers can tell when the second is missing. So can the people who will have to run the facility if it is funded.
This is patient work. The visible deliverable is a document. The actual work is the year of conversations that make the document possible.