Lidia Borrell Damian joined EUA in January 2006 and has been working within the areas of doctoral programmes and researchers’ careers, university-industry collaborative research and knowledge transfer and also on the contribution of universities to regional innovation. Her main role is to help stimulate dialogue for action in order to develop a knowledge-based European society. She is also involved in developing international relations between Europe and Latin America in Higher Education and Research.
Lidia Borrell Damian holds a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Barcelona, where she was an assistant professor from 1990-1998. She was a post-doctoral researcher in the US (North Carolina State University) and Canada (The University of Western Ontario), from 1997 to 2000.
Back in Barcelona, she worked for a private chemical company as deputy director for the R&D department. After two years of being immersed in the R&D industrial world, she moved to the public research management sector at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), where she was director of research services in 2003-2005, managing research projects and knowledge transfer activities.
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