Director of Research Innovation & Strategic Partnerships

Trish Curtin

Trish Curtin leads strategic research development initiatives including center scale proposal development and enterprise-wide research collaborations with government, industry, and other research institutions. Trish has over 20 years’ experience in university, commercial, government, and international program development.

Prior to joining Northeastern, Trish was a Co-founder and Principal Research Development Consultant at Butterbrook Consulting LLC where she worked closely with university faculty to identify new research opportunities, shape strategies for new and expanded research initiatives, and increase institutional competitiveness. She has extensive experience preparing complex technical proposals to federal agencies, including National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD), and others, and has contributed to the successful funding of innovative research projects and the establishment of new university research centers. She has also mentored multiple junior faculty in proposal preparation and assisted them in preparing and securing early faculty CAREER grants.

As Business Development Manager at Triton Systems, Inc., Trish coordinated federal business development activity, managed the pipeline of proposals for Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR), Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), and Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) opportunities, and trained engineering staff in technical and cost proposal development.

Earlier in her career, she served as a C4I Program Manager and a Senior Systems Engineer at Raytheon Company where she managed multidisciplinary teams to develop functional requirements and write proposals for large scale international and DOD engineering programs. Prior to Raytheon, she was an Exploration Geophysicist at BP. Trish holds a degree in Geophysics from Wellesley College.

p.curtin@northeastern.edu