Cornelia Lawson is a member of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) and currently heading the Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability group at Alliance Manchester Business School. 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, research funding decision making, and transformations in science, such as AI. Prior to joining AMBS Cornelia was a lecturer 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.

• Scientific committee member and chair of the annual conference "Organisation, economics and policy of scientific research" 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).