Cornelia Lawson is Professor at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR). Her research investigates the performance and career paths of researchers and inventors, as well as inter-organisational and inter-sectoral research collaboration and knowledge transfer. At present she is working on projects that look at open innovation in science, gender biases and diversity in science, research funding decision making, and the impact of AI on science.

Cornelia is currently heading the Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability group at AMBS; before that she was Programme Director of the MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (2020-2022). Prior to joining AMBS Cornelia was a Prize Fellow at the University of Bath School of Management and a JSPS post-doctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo. She holds a PhD in Economics from City, University of London.

• Member of the ESRC peer review college
• Scientific committee member and chair of the annual conference "Workshop on the Organisation, economics and policy of scientific research" (WOEPS) (since 2011)
• Guest Editor with Stefano Breschi (Bocconi), Francesco Lissoni (U Bordeaux), Andrea Morrison (U Utrecht) and Ammon Salter (U Bath) of a Special Issue in Research Policy on STEM Migration, Research, and Innovation (2020).