Jenny Grabmeier is a strategist, storyteller and trained facilitator who works with OSU researchers to develop interdisciplinary teams and proposals; initiate large grants; and communicate and scale efforts. As a team science consultant for funded research teams, she designs and facilitates all-hands meetings, collaboration planning, capacity building, community engagement programming, and more. Currently she serves as lead facilitator for the NSF FAIROS AI-Ready Ecology and Biodiversity Data Infrastructure for Science and Action and team science facilitator for the NSF HDR Imageomics Institute and NSF- and NSERC-funded Artificial Intelligence and Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center, and she manages the Ohio State Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s research grant program for AI and health. She is also a published contributor to the science of team science and has co-instructed EEOB/ANTHRO/ENR 5510 Interdisciplinary Team Science. 

Jenny's own extensive experience leading high-performing, multidisciplinary creative teams includes co-owning a boutique communications agency that specialized in multi-media storytelling and proposal development for scientists and non-profit organizations, directing the OSU Foundation communications team to launch the university's first-ever $1B comprehensive campaign, and co-created OSU's first-ever brand guidelines. Previous experience also include BalletMet Columbus and "The Other Paper" weekly newspaper.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

• Jiang G., Boghrat D., Grabmeier J., Cross J. (2023, July 26). Complexity Leadership in Action: A Team Science Case Study. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. 

Editor-Reviewed Publications:

• Jiang G., Grabmeier J., Boghrat D., Simkins S. (2025, Feb 4) Boundary spanning: A leadership perspective. Integration and Implementation Insights.
• Jiang G., Boghrat D., Grabmeier J. (2023, September 12). How to organize an “all-hands” meeting. Integration and Implementation Insights.
• Jiang G., Boghrat D., Grabmeier J. (2023, March 21). An effective way to organize research coordination meetings. Integration and Implementation Insights.