Shaun Gavigan

Shaun Gavigan is a Research Funding Specialist at Munster Technological University (MTU), where he works at the intersection of research administration and applied AI, leading the design of an institutional LLM tool that supports researchers through proposal development and evaluation. Prior to MTU, he served as EU Grants Manager at UCC's Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, one of Ireland's leading data analytics research centres, where he managed EU funding portfolios and supported grant strategy at scale. With over a decade of specialist experience spanning EU and national grants management, Shaun brings deep expertise across the full research funding lifecycle, from proposal development and award negotiation through to post-award compliance, within complex university and research centre environments.