Johanna is Senior Enterprise Development Manager in the Engagement and Enterprise team in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Johanna enables strategic partnerships, facilitates collaboration with cultural sector and creative industries, and supports academics within Arts and Humanities in developing innovation and commercial pathways in their research and teaching.

As a former academic with a PhD in Earth and Planetary Science, interdisciplinary and creative collaboration have been a constant thread through Johanna’s career. Johanna was previously Head of Research, Impact and Innovation in King’s Culture, a knowledge exchange unit connecting the university with the creative industries and cultural sector. Here, she developed a deep expertise in collaboration with creative partners and the ways in which knowledge exchange with the creative industries and cultural sectors can drive innovation.

Prior to joining King’s in 2020, Johanna was Head of Outreach and Public Engagement at the Institute of Physics, where she supported the society’s members through grants, training and outreach opportunities, as well as leading a number of high profile collaborations with leading arts organisations. This built upon her work at the British Library as Research Engagement Manager in the Science team, which including leading the Winton Capital Management funded exhibition Beautiful Science. Johanna first discovered an interest in working with arts and humanities during her PhD as part of the interdisciplinary Dakhleh Oasis Project and through collaboration with a wide range of colleagues at the American liberal arts college Denison University, which led to her augmenting her scientific training with a foundation in fine art at Central St Martins (Byam Shaw).