Christian Wagner has been invited to a Visiting Professor position at the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems (ICC) at Michigan Technological University, USA in order to leverage research synergies and widen collaboration between the ICC and Horizon. As part of this collaboration Dr Wagner spent initially one academic year from 2016-2017 in the USA, resulting in a series of joint research publications, new collaborations and joint funding proposals. Beyond the immediate research aspects, the collaboration is resulting in opportunities for the exchange of both PhD students and post-doctoral researchers, joint PhD supervision and international impact both in the USA and the UK based on the joint research outputs.