What happens when you publicly criticize five major research institutions for not collaborating , and they call you back to fix it? Neuroscientist Theo Mulder shares the inside story of building a 200-person scientific consortium from scratch, and why trust and the willingness to share are the only things that make large-scale research collaboration work. Subscribe for more episodes on the science of collaboration. Theo Mulder's career arc reads like a case study in escalating collaborative complexity: from experimental neuropsychologist to professor of movement disorders, then director of 17 institutes at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and finally architect of a major interdisciplinary consortium linking five research partners. Each transition taught him something different about what makes collaboration succeed or fail at scale. The ...