Position Number: 001937

Department: Div of Research (Adm)

Employment Type: Permanent - Full-time

Months Per Year: 12

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

+ Conducts proactive, campus-wide engagement with UNC Charlotte researchers — in research centers, institutes, and directly with individual researchers not affiliated with any center — to identify research with commercial translation potential at TRL 2–3, before it self-selects through formal disclosure or exits through publication unrealized.

+ Facilitates structured problem-framing sessions between researchers and Charlotte industry counterparts, translating scientific findings into operational problem statements that corporate partners in energy, advanced manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, defense and intelligence, and optics recognize as real and worth solving.

+ Evaluates the translation readiness of technologies in the assigned portfolio by conducting ...