I am Programme Manager at the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency in Brussels, working on future-proof electronics: AI-driven sustainability across semiconductor design, materials and lifecycle.
Materials chemist by training. Fifteen years as principal investigator and coordinator of frontier materials research in the United Kingdom, Czechia and Germany — Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Liverpool, Charles University in Prague, King’s College London, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Along the way: deep-tech venture formation, research data governance, and international standardisation.
The scientific through-line was crystalline carbon nitrides and two-dimensional semiconductors beyond graphene, later rare-earth-free silicon and sulfur materials for energy storage. We put formulation robotics into materials discovery before “self-driving laboratory” was a common phrase. In March 2020, when the market for disinfectant collapsed, five of us produced up to 1,100 litres of hand sanitiser a day for the Charité, to a WHO formulation meeting the European surgical-prep standard.
The group is closed. What it built is carried on by others: the silicon–sulfur chemistry and two Humboldt patents became MANA.energy, run by the people who developed it.
I write here about research policy, scientific publishing, and what artificial intelligence is doing to both. I also design tabletop games — the satire and the policy writing turn out to be the same argument in two registers.
Where to look
- Publications — papers, patents, standards. Also on ORCID and Google Scholar.
- Writing — research policy, publishing, AI
- Projects — programmes and initiatives
- GrantWerk — tabletop games and narrative design
- CV
- Scholars at Risk — practical guidance on hosting displaced researchers
- Archive — the bojdysLAB group, 2015–2026
This site is maintained in a personal capacity. Views expressed are my own and do not represent EISMEA or the European Commission.