Katrin Danerlöv is a MEL Specialist at SEI Headquarters. She is part of the Global Operations unit and a member of SEI’s Knowledge Management Team.

Katrin is responsible for developing and operationalizing existing structures and processes for organizational monitoring, evaluation, learning and results reporting in SEI, with a particular focus on learning for organizational efficiency and impact.

Katrin has worked at Vinnova, the Swedish innovation agency for ten years (2010 to 2020) in different roles and has extensive experience in monitoring, evaluation, impact logic, data visualization, data analytics and also EU’s research and innovation programmes (FP7 and Horizon 2020). As an analyst at Vinnova she was responsible for Sweden’s biggest evaluation of a R&D program so far, i.e. the Strategic Innovation Programmes, a programme with a grant budget of roughly 1 Billion Euro. At Vinnova, Katrin represented Sweden in various international expert groups, including at the OECD and the European Commission. Katrin was project leader for the initial project on implementing the data analytics platform, Qlik Sense at Vinnova, for visualizing and monitoring different aspects of Vinnovas R&D project portfolio. She is the inventor and project leader of the Horizon 2020 visualisation tool, which inspired the EU Commission to develop the Horizon 2020 Dashboard. She has also been the main Swedish representative for data on participation in the Framework programmes (eCORDA user group, a reference group for the Horizon 2020 data and dashboard), as well as responsible for monitoring the Swedish participation in the R&D Framework programmes.  In her role as National Contact point she has worked for several years with Research support services, advising and guiding researchers how to find suitable calls for research funding and also how to be successful with an EU application.

Previously, Katrin has significant experience from R&D project management from YKI, Institute for Surface Chemistry (now part of RISE Research Institutes of Sweden), in different roles.

Katrin holds a MSc (Engineering Physics) from Uppsala University and a PhD (Chemistry) from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.