Anna Radomska, PhD

Direct strategic planning and execution of five £1-10M engineering and physical sciences projects to ensure delivery on-time, on-schedule, and within budget. Oversee funding to ensure effective resource allocation and cost control. Lead project planning, deliverables monitoring and tracking, risk mitigation, and progress reporting. Supervise three centre managers, including hiring, selection, and performance review. Manage daily communication with multi-disciplinary teams and over 20 project partners. Lead, plan, and execute overall activities and functions across multiple UKRC and ERC Programme grants.

• Fostered strong working collaborations with programme stakeholders, internal and external partners to secure cooperation and to establish programmes goals, budgets and timelines.
• Leveraged project management best practices in planning, initiation, execution, and tracking of project activities, timelines, and budget.
• Ensured timely submission of programme progress reporting to funding council by leveraging advanced collaborative relationships and partnership building.
• Chaired programme meetings to co-ordinate activities, to streamline communication flow among conflicting project parties, and to problem-solve emerging issues.
• Significantly enhanced accuracy of budget forecasts for six Doctoral Training Centres.
• Performed end-to-end recruitment tasks, ensured effective supervision, coordination and performance management of administrative staff (2 x full time Centre Managers and 1 x part time Centre Manager.
• Responsible for their compliance with UK export control laws, including applying for required export licence(s) where necessary.

Key projects managed in a capacity of a Programme Project Manager:

UKRC

• EPSRC Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare that brings together Imperial’s mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists with medical scientists and clinicians to address such issues across different areas in healthcare. Value (£): £2.5M
• EPSRC Programme Grant: Classification, Computation, and Construction: New Methods in Geometry (3CinG): EPSRC-funded research collaboration between Imperial College London, University of Warwick, and University of Cambridge. Value (£): ~£1.8M
• EPSRC Programme Grant: Mathematical fundamentals of Metamaterials for multiscale Physics and Mechanics jointly run project between Imperial College London and University of Liverpool. Value (£): ~£2.5M
• EPSRC Prism II Platform for Research in Simulation Methods – collaborative project between Imperial College London, University of Exeter and University of University of Oxford. Value (£): ~£2M

ERC

• ERC Stochastic transport in upper ocean dynamics (STUOD). Partners for project included Imperial College London, National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic Control (INRIA) and French Research Institute for Exploitation of Sea (IFREMER). Value (€): ~10 million

Other

• COMAC Beijing Aircraft Technology Research Institute (BATRI) - Imperial College London research collaboration aiming to design innovative commercial aircraft wings. Value (£): ~10 million
• Managed on-site evaluations, internal audits and customer surveys.

Assigned as the Centre Manager for a PhD training programme to lead the strategic planning, analysis, stakeholder engagement, and finance management. Developed and monitored implementation of operational plan to ensure streamlined workflow and to achieve student enrolment targets. Managed a £5.5M budget to ensure effective cost control and resource allocation. Conceptualised and implemented multiple policies and procedures aligned with governance framework.

• Spearheaded the science recruitment initiatives including: MPE Wednesday Event, Kick-Off Camp, 10-week UK-Met-Off ice-CDT MPE Programme, 3-day residential Jamboree to achieve student enrolment targets and to elevate understanding of sciences.
• Initiated, planned, and delivered multiple outreach activities including Panel discussion: Numbers to the rescue: can maths save the planet?, Maths of Planet Earth London Secondary School Competition, Mathematics of Planet Earth Exhibition to ensure attendance of over 10,000+ members of general public.
• Contributed to proposal writing to secure further funding such as: £17K from the Public Engagement Impulse Grant to fund Mathematics of Planet Earth Exhibition, and £1,000 from ReCoVER Outreach Activity Fund to organise the MPE School Competition.
• Drove the strategic decision-making process being a key contributor to the management committees and Advisory Board, Steering Committee, External Advisory Board, and MRes Exam Board.
• Subject Matter Expert and trusted resource to CDT staff and students in relation to EPSRC’s reporting requirements and grant conditions.
• Promoted excellent student experience by enhancing the overall administration process and won the Student Academic Choice Award in the Best Support Staff Category.
• Initiated and established a fully accredited MPE CDT communication course by Graduate School's Course Quality and Strategic Development committee to meet communication needs of CDT students.
• Fostered strong engagements with key industry leaders such as EDF, SSE, NPL, Air Worldwide, Met Office, ECMWF, DWD and non-government research funding, Climate KiC to secure additional studentship funds.

Partnered with Programme Manager to co-ordinate and manage overall lifecycle of four £0.25M - £5M projects including: project planning, milestone monitoring and tracking, risk mitigation, progress reporting, statutory funding reporting, and budget management. Chaired multiple project meetings to facilitate project communication between project/ programme stakeholders and to control project deliverables. Applied Express Project and Gantter to monitor and track project progress. Organised multiple research events and conferences.

• Coordinated projects effectively by establishing and maintaining efficient communication, organizing recruitment of postgraduate students, website management, committee servicing (setting up Agendas, taking minutes at meetings and tracking actions), organizing
  internal scientific and project meetings, Conference organization (e.g. Postgraduate Symposium, 2nd and 3rd International Conferences on Plant Chemical Biology, etc).
• Performed analysis and reporting on regular basis.
• Maintained scientific records in order to ensure associated data remain up-to-date and are passed onto relevant bodies e.g. Advisory Board, funding bodies, preparing with absolute confidentiality, sensitive
  documents, reporting on project results and progress (e.g. using Participants Portal for FP7 Project or Research Outcomes System for UKRCs grant holders).
• Tracked and administered finances, approved orders, managed budget (monitoring of expenses and invoices).
• Managed key relationships with research partners and industrial
  collaborators (e.g. Syngenta and Bayer partnership with AGRI-net), taking lead in implementing and managing all administrative aspects of NexGenAgriChem PhD Programme, CAPITALs and AGRI-net, outward facing duties for AGRI-net industry/academic outreach programme.
• Negotiated contracts regarding consultancy, research collaborations or studentship agreements.

Key projects managed in a capacity of a Project Manager:

UKRC

• CAPITALs Programme: a large-scale collaboration between Imperial College London, Durham University, University of Leeds, University of Cambridge and University of Nottingham, funded through EPSRC. Value (£): ~5M.
• AGRI-net: Agri-science Chemical Biology network. AGRI-net has over 900 members from academia, industry and government agencies. Value (£): 0.25M
• Membrane Biophysics (MB) Platform: grant funded through EPSRC. Value (£): over 1,3M.

ERC

• NexGenAgriChem PhD Programme: Funding: FP7 Initial Training Networks (ITN) - Marie Curie Actions. Value (£): £3.2M

Co-ordinated and managed preclinical/ early clinical development projects. Partnered with project executive team and consultants to establish project vision, goals, budget, and timelines. Wrote and developed in-depth academic and commercial reports with research findings and drug/device development recommendations. Fostered strong working relationships with research partners and industrial collaborators to timely problem solve issues. Executed research planning leading to potential drug/ device commercialisation. Recruitment, training and development of PhD students.

Key Projects delivered working as Researcher:

Medical engineering solutions in osteoarthritis Project. Funder: Wellcome Trust

Delivery Partner: Imperial College London, Department of Chemistry

• Designed and developed screen-printing, disposable biosensor platform technology based on nucleic acids aptamers to measure circulating protein and peptide biomarkers of osteoarthritis.
• Leveraged knowledge of electrochemical and optical techniques to conduct innovative research in protein engineering field.

Development of novel microprobe sensation-less glucose monitor Project. Funder: Imperial Innovations.

Delivery Partner: Imperial College London, Institute of Biomedical Engineering

• Spearheaded design and development of enzyme coated microprobe arrays to electrochemically detect glucose in interstitial fluid.
• Key contributor to conceptualisation and delivery of controlled release drug delivery system, diagnostic device for diabetes.

Circuits for implantable neural recording and stimulation Project.

• Played instrumental role in creation and development of chemical sensors, including testing in integrated microfluidic devices.

Intelligent stem cell culture systems Project. Funder: BBSRC

• Designed and developed miniature amperometric and potentiometric sensors with innovative biofouling features to measure oxygen, ammonia and glucose levels and to deliver physiological profile of stem cells in relation to environmental conditions and intrinsic factors.

Diagnostic assay for prostate cancer Project: Funding: EPSRC

Delivery Partners: School of Pharmacy, Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, University of Sunderland

• Coordinated development of diagnostic assay (using CE-UV and LC-MS techniques) for prostate cancer identifying high levels of altered nucleosides (biomarkers) present in serum and urine.
• Developed and maintained excellent working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including hospitals, universities and research institutes.

Delivery Partner: LifeScan Scotland Ltd, Johnson & Johnson Company

Expanded experience in project management, product development and innovation consulting. Gained a strong customer focus with the ability to communicate and deal with people from a diverse range of backgrounds. Handled many challenging customer enquiries and have learnt to resolve them in a professional and timely manner.

• Ensured production of glucose biosensors while adhering to quality control standards and complete client satisfaction.