Dr Konstantina Stamati is Strategic Development and Enterprise Lead at the University of Cambridge, where she designs and leads research–industry partnership systems across the ESRC CAM Doctoral Training Partnership consortium.

She is Founder and Director of Cambridge Grand Challenges (CGC), an interdisciplinary collaboration platform she established in 2017, now operating across six Schools of the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. Under her leadership, CGC has engaged over 60 corporate and government partners and scaled doctoral industry placements from 8 to over 45 per year, sustaining an ESRC collaboration rate of 46% against a 30% benchmark. ESRC peer reviewers described CGC’s contribution as pivotal to the £17 million second CAM-DTP award.

From 2019 to 2023, alongside her CGC role, Konstantina served as Innovation Strategy Lead for the Oxford–Cambridge Arc, seconded to the University’s Strategic Partnerships Office. In this role she held strategic accountability for Cambridge’s contribution across nine universities, serving as Secretary to the Arc Management Executive Board and Executive Officer of the Arc Steering Group. The Arc Life Sciences strategy she contributed to was cited in the March 2024 Budget.

Her earlier work spans research partnerships, doctoral training and policy engagement across Cambridge, following an initial career as a research scientist at NIAB and the Scottish Crop Research Institute.

Originally trained as a plant geneticist, Konstantina’s work is shaped by a consistent focus on how research translates into impact. Her approach emphasises that impact depends not only on the quality of research, but on how effectively institutions coordinate across systems. She is currently completing an MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School.