SUNDHARAM Sakthivel, Fonds National de la Recherche

Sakthivel is a Programme and Innovation Manager at the Luxembourg National Research Fund (Fonds National de la Recherche).

He is responsible for the research valorisation funding programmes JUMP (proof of concept, market validation, and customer discovery), BRIDGES (bridging public research and industry), as well as the ICT themes of the main research funding instruments.

Before taking on his current missions, he gained several years of industry experience and spent a short period in software engineering research.

He is passionate about products and innovations that address real-world problems.