Samir Vinchurkar
RESEARCH PROFILE
In my role as the Business Engagement & Research Development Manager at the ICMS (Institute for complex molecular systems), Mechanical Engineering and the Cyber-Physical/High-tech Systems Center, I assist in building bridges between researchers, industry and funding agencies. The goal is hands on implementation of valorization. Please click on the google scholar link for publications: Google Scholar
I believe that bringing together academia, industry and government can create new opportunities initiated on the level of research, infrastructure, knowledge sharing and education. Driving these initiatives with an objective to address unmet needs in the society can generate value for all stakeholders
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Samir completed his PhD at the Virginia Commonwealth University while working with the departments of pharmaceutics, engineering and the school of medicine, following his BE and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Pune and the University of Oklahoma, respectively. After his PhD, Samir worked as a research engineer and later as a Director with a healthcare startup in Belgium before rejuvenating his academic connections aiming to co-create sustainable, multidisciplinary ecosystems spinning out entrepreneurial entities. Samir was part of an international team responsible for deploying ‘Disciplined Entrepreneurship’ (licensed from MIT) at the National University of Ireland where he also worked with CÚRAM, an SFI Centre for Research in Medical Devices. Having successfully commercialised a part of his PhD research which was awarded by Elsevier as one of the top-cited articles in Medical Engineering and Physics, Samir is always enthusiastic about helping others create value from their research.
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