About ResearchArkResearch funding should move at thespeed of the ideas it backs.
We are Mycel, the team behind ResearchArk.
Based in Berlin, we bring product, programme operations, engineering, market development and advisory experience together around one purpose: giving researchers more time for ideas.
Built from inside the funding ecosystem.
ResearchArk grew from first-hand experience designing and operating European research platforms, programmes and partnerships. The idea took shape at B.A.U.M. Consult, where Alphin and Andreas co-developed DISCCO, CETPartnership's digital collaboration platform, and the Crete Valley Project Connector, while Alphin also managed EXPERA and developed IntPPC.
Across that work, the founding team saw the same pattern: opportunities sit apart from people, proposals sit apart from evidence, and valuable knowledge is lost between funding cycles.
That experience shaped ResearchArk around connection. We work to make the path from idea to partnership and funding clearer, more collaborative and easier to navigate for everyone involved.
Where this is going.
A world where scientific discovery thrives without administrative friction. Where AI amplifies human ingenuity, collaboration across institutions and borders accelerates breakthroughs, and every idea with merit finds the resources to create measurable impact.
Our working principles.
Start with the people doing the work.
We design around the real decisions, relationships and responsibilities of researchers, innovators, teams and the organisations backing them.
Make evidence easy to follow.
Clear sources, connected context and transparent reasoning turn information into knowledge people can trust and use.
Design for collaboration.
Breakthroughs cross disciplines, institutions and borders. The systems around them should make those connections easier.
Build responsibly, from Europe.
Human judgement, responsible data practices and institutional trust belong in the foundation from the start.
Different disciplines. One shared purpose.
ResearchArk brings together company builders, engineers, programme operators, communicators, scientists, lawyers and human-centred designers.
Founders
Company leadership
Alphin Tom
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Product & Strategy
Alphin leads product and strategy. He brings more than 15 years of experience delivering AI and digital systems across Asia and Europe, including smart-city deployments and collaboration infrastructure for European research programmes. At B.A.U.M. Consult, he managed EXPERA, co-developed DISCCO and the Crete Valley Project Connector, and developed IntPPC. He holds an M.Sc. from the Technical University of Munich and designed ResearchArk's product and technical architecture.
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Andreas Corusa
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Operations & Partnerships
Andreas leads operations and partnerships. He brings more than ten years of experience across EU programmes, energy systems, digital platforms and entrepreneurship in Europe and Asia. At B.A.U.M. Consult, he led the Innovation Management Unit, co-developed DISCCO and the Crete Valley Project Connector, and led Platone under Horizon 2020. Earlier, he managed WindNODE research at TU Berlin. A published researcher in energy digitalisation and smart-grid interoperability, he holds an M.Sc. from Technische Universität Berlin.
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Market and technical delivery
Danka Markovic
Founding Supporter
Go-to-Market
Danka leads ResearchArk's marketing and brand communications and supports partnerships and market development. She brings more than ten years of experience across marketing, international service delivery, team leadership and risk management.
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Daniel Schmidt
Founding Supporter
Data & AI/ML
Daniel is a full-stack developer and creative technologist working across Python, C#, TypeScript, databases, containers and local AI workflows. His portfolio includes retrieval assistants, AI-enhanced scrapers, data automation, full-stack products and user-facing creative technology.
Strategic Advisors
Science, funding operations and international law
Dr. Maria Reinisch
Strategic Advisor
Executive Director, VDW
Maria has led the Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler since 2016. Her career spans scientific responsibility, leadership, institutional positioning and communications, following senior global marketing and communications roles at Siemens.
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Jacob Munch
Strategic Advisor
Special Advisor, Fødevarestyrelsen (Denmark)
Jacob brings funder-side operating experience from the CETPartnership call-management team and Nordic Energy Research. He is a Special Advisor at the Danish Veterinary and Food Agency, and his work spans programme governance, proposal selection, national-funder coordination and the practical mechanics of European research calls.
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Andres Arevalo-Maklouf
Strategic Legal Advisor
Law, Policy & Regulatory Strategy
Andres serves as Strategic Legal Advisor to ResearchArk, providing legal, policy and regulatory insight in support of the company's international growth and institutional positioning. Admitted to practice in Germany and Spain, his experience centres on the interaction between law and emerging technologies, with a particular focus on the legal and institutional frameworks supporting innovation.
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Entrepreneurship and human-centred innovation
Kilian Karg
Mentor
Entrepreneur & Design Thinker
Kilian is the co-founder and managing director of Protellus, a sustainable innovation consultancy. He holds a Diplom in Psychology and is an alumnus of HPI's School of Design Thinking. He has led innovation, mentoring and organisational development programmes for GIZ, the International Labour Organization, the World Bank, European institutions and startups.
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Built in Europe. Connected to a global research community.
ResearchArk is a product of Mycel UG (haftungsbeschränkt), headquartered in Berlin, Germany.