Will is an experienced senior research administrator with over 12 years of experience in grants management. After being in Neuro’s administrative position, working on events and new hire onboarding, from 2008 through 2011, he started as a grants manager at the Wyss Institute for Biological Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in 2012 where he primarily supported DARPA projects. In 2015, he moved into a hybrid central office role in the Office of Sponsored Programs at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture supporting proposal preparation and submission, outgoing subawards and agreements with TN state agencies and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. In 2019, Will joined the Tickle College of Engineering at UT-Knoxville as a research coordinator focusing on pre-award proposal and research development and working on college research metrics and benchmarking data for strategic planning. Moving back to the Boston area in 2021, he rejoined the Harvard community as a senior research administrator in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and currently serves as the Assistant Director of Finance for the Department. In addition to being a pre- and post-award grant manager, he is involved in local and school-wide research administrator training efforts.
Will earned an MS in Research Administration Management from Emmanuel College (2012) and has been a Certified Research Administrator since 2013. Will has also been a member of the Society of Research Administrators International since 2012, has led and co-led numerous presentations at SRAI meetings and has served as an instructor for the Society’s virtual Pre-Award Fundamentals Intensive program.