Dr Brian Cahill is Programme Manager of the TRAIN@Ed MSCA COFUND Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. TRAIN@Ed will train a cohort of researchers from the field of Data-Driven Innovation to lead industry-academia partnerships. He is a Member of the Governing Board of EuroScience and leads its Science Policy Working Group. He was Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association from March 2016 to February 2018. He studied Mechanical Engineering in Ireland and moved to Germany in 1998 to take up a position with Hewlett Packard. He received his PhD for work in electrokinetically- driven fluid flow from the ETH Zurich in 2004 and subsequently carried out postdoctoral research in the colloid and interface science of the University of Geneva. He was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Bioprocessing and Analytical Measurement Techniques in Heilbad Heiligenstadt and was leader of the Junior Research Group at the same institute, where his work focussed on droplet-based microfluidics.