Michael Holland is the Vice Chancellor for Science Policy & Research Strategies at the University of Pittsburgh. He manages the campus-wide Pitt Momentum Funds, runs Big Proposal Bootcamp, and coaches faculty as they develop large, interdisciplinary, team-based proposals. Prior to coming to Pitt, Holland served as Executive Director of New York University’s Center for Urban Science & Progress. Previously, he spent 13 years in Washington, DC, overseeing federal research and development programs as the Senior Advisor and Staff Director in the Office of the Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, as a program examiner in the White House Office of Management & Budget with responsibility for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science and Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), as a senior policy advisor in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, and on the staff of the US House of Representative’s Committee on Science. He is chair of the steering committee for the AAAS Societal Impacts of Science & Engineering (X) section and a member of NIST’s Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology; UNC’s Chemistry Advisory Board, and ThinkData Ed’s advisory board. Mike previously served as board chair of the Coleridge Initiative, a non-profit data science startup spun out of NYU, as a member of the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Innovation and Science advisory board; NSF’s Business and Operations Advisory Committee, and NIST’s Smart Grid Advisory Committee. Holland earned his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.