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Dermot Brabazon holds a Full Professorship of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU). He received his BEng (Mechanical Engineering) and PhD (Materials Science) from University College Dublin. From 1995 to 2000 he worked with Materials Ireland, a state materials science research centre.  He was appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University at the start of 2000, promoted to Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School in 2007, to Associate Dean for Research in 2009, and to Professor in 2014. Dermot was conferred with the President’s Award for Research in 2009, Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering in 2015, received Invent Commercialization awards in 2015 and 2017, and the AMPT Gold Medal for Contributions to Materials Processing Research and Education in 2018. He is currently Director for the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre at DCU; co-founder and Deputy Director for the I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, and is Director (RoI) of the Advanced Metallic Systems Centre for Doctoral Training. His teaching and research activities are focused in the areas of materials and processing technologies with a particular emphasis on the development of advanced technologies to enable improved advanced materials science and  engineering knowledge to enable improved product and production, capability and quality, for the benefit of companies and the broader society.

Dr. Tanya Levingstone was awarded a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Dublin City University in 2003. She then undertook her PhD in the area of bioceramic coatings in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology (NCPST) in DCU. In 2008, she joined the Tissue Engineering Research Group in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, where she led the cartilage tissue engineering faction of the group. Dr. Levingstone returned to DCU to join the academic staff in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in 2016 where she leads a translational research group focused on the development of novel biomaterials based approaches for bone and cartilage repair.

Dr Inam Ul Ahad is Assistant Professor in Advanced Manufacturing in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Dublin City University. Dr Ahad is a Principal Investigator in the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre, Dublin City University. Dr Ahad earned his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Dr Ahad completed 

Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme and received his PhD degree in Electronics jointly from Dublin City University, Ireland and Military University of Technology, Poland. Dr Ahad has worked in world leading companies in biomedical engineering, Gambro, Siemens and Philips Medical Systems. Dr Ahad main area of research is focused around development of sensors for industrial applications, new materials and in-situ process monitoring techniques for additive manufacturing, enhancement of corrosion resistance using laser based techniques, technology transfer and prototype development. Dr Ahad has participated in seven European Consortia including (EXTATIC, Laserlab Europe, COST Action MP1203, COST Action MP 1401, CEZAMAT, and ACTTiVAte) related to multidisciplinary fields. These projects are related to applications of EUV and Soft x-ray (SXR) in science and technology and assessment of technologies to identify new cross border value chains across four industry sectors (healthcare, agro-food, ICT and aerospace). Dr Ahad is leading two Erasmus+ ICM programmes in DCU.

Prof. Boualem Benatallah is a full professor of computing at Dublin City University (DCU, Ireland) since Jan 2022. He is fellow of the IEEE. His main research interests are developing fundamental concepts and techniques in service Web services middleware, business process automation, quality control in crowd sourcing services, automated and crowdsourced training data curation, intelligent and AI-augmented services, conversational cognitive services, context aware and compositional task-oriented conversational services. He has published more than 300 refereed papers including more than 90 journal papers. His work is highly cited (over 23,000 citations, h-Index: 66, according to Google School). Most of his papers appeared in very selective and reputable conferences and journals. He is frequently invited to give keynotes and seminars at international conferences, workshops and PhD schools. Prof. Benatallah has been general and PC chair of a number of international conferences. He has been guest editor of several special issues for reputable international journals. He is a member of the steering committee of BPM (Business Process Management) and ICSOC (Int. Conference on Service Oriented Computing) conferences. He is member of the editorial board of numerous international journals including ACM Transactions on Web and IEEE transactions on services computing. He is member of Executive Committee of IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems. He has built a strong set of international relationships with leading researchers and practitioners in his field, and multiple productive collaborations with internal universities, industry and government organizations.

He supervised over 35 research (30 PhD and 5 Masters by Research) students to completion as principal or joint supervisor. He was also associate supervisor of several research students. Professor Benatallah has had over 21 years as a senior lecturer, associate professor, professor and then Scientia professor at UNSW Sydney (Australia) before joining DCU. Earlier in his academic career, he was also an academic at Queensland University of Technology and James Cook University (Australia). He was a member of the team (comprising multiple university, government, and industry partners) that constructed the successful bid for the Smart Services CRC (Cooperative Research Centre, Australia, 2008-2013). He was research leader of the data curation foundry research stream at the Data to Decisions CRC (Australia, 2017-209). His research attracted a large amount competitive grant income, including ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery Projects, ARC Linkage Projects) and ARC Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities, ARC International Awards and several other Australian government and European Union competitive grants and networks. He held visiting professor positions at several prestigious research institutes and universities including INRIA-LORIA,, Trento University (Italy), Clermont Ferrand, University of Lyon, Paris Dauphine University (France). He obtained a PhD in computer science from Grenoble University (France).

Dr Brian Corcoran is currently  Head of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University. He was Associate Dean of Education within the faculty of Engineering and Computing from 2014 to 2017 with responsibility for providing leadership in advancing academic excellence at undergraduate and taught post graduate level within the Faculty. He is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland, IMechE, HEFAT, SEEP and AMPT.

Since completing his PhD in 2003 he has researched in the areas of High Purity Water Systems, Lab-on-a-chip and Sensor technology. Through his Principle Investigator contributions to the ‘Water is Life’ project he developed an interest in Sustainable Water Systems for Developing Countries. This large multi-partner research team including academics from Ireland (DKIT, DCU, RCSI, NUIM, TCD) and Uganda (Makerere University, Medical Missionaries of Mary and various NGO’s). This work resulted in a wide range of research outputs include two book chapters.

Stephen is a Professor of Electronic Engineering in the School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Computing,  Dublin City University.

He has a background in gaseous plasma technology and has lead research teams investigating low pressure plasmas for semiconductor and biomedical device applications, atmospheric pressure plasmas for clinical and food processing decontamination applications, systems engineering and energy systems.

He is a Principal Investigator at the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology, and the AMBER SFI Centre for Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research. He is the Director of the Cyber-physical Systems Laboratory and co-Director of the nanomaterials processing laboratory at DCU.

Professor Nicholas Dunne is the Chair of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing, the Founding Executive Director of Biodesign Europe and the Executive Director of the Medical Engineering Research Centre Engineering (MedEng) at DCU. Professor Dunne is also a Honorary Research Professor of Biomaterials Engineering at the School of Pharmacy at the Queen's University of Belfast (QUB), an Adjunct Professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin and a Principal Investigator in the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering.

Prior to his appointment at DCU, he was the Professor of Biomaterials Engineering at QUB He has also held Joint-Directorship positions in the Advanced Materials and Processes Research Cluster and the Polymer Processing Research Centre at QUB.

Dr Derek Molloy is a Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Computing at Dublin City University. He lectures in Connected Embedded Systems, Object-oriented Programming, and Digital & Analogue Electronics at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. His research interests are in the fields of Embedded Systems, Computer & Machine Vision, Graphics & Visualisation and e-Learning. He has published two important Wiley texts on embedded systems, Exploring Raspberry Pi and Exploring BeagleBone, which are used on engineering programmes in universities across the world (including translations into Chinese and Korean) with more than 200,000 copies in circulation. Derek produces a popular YouTube series on a variety of electronics embedded Linux topics. His videos and personal blog (www.derekmolloy.ie) have introduced millions of people to the electronics, embedded Linux, and physical programming.  Since 1999 he has been a Technical Assessor for IDA (RD&I) and Enterprise Ireland (R&D Fund) applications. 

Fiona Regan is Professor in Chemistry at Dublin City University and Director of the DCU Water Institute. Fiona studied Environmental Science and Technology and later completed a PhD in analytical chemisty in 1994. Following postdoctoral research in optical sensing in DCU, in 1996 she took up a lecturing position at Limerick Institute of Technology. In 2002 Fiona joined the School of Chemical Sciences as a lecturer in analytical chemistry, in 2008 she became senior lecturer and in 2009 became the Beaufort Principal Investigator in Marine and Environmental Sensing.
Fiona’s research focuses on environmental monitoring and she has special interest in priority and emerging contaminants as well as the establishment of decision support tools for environmental monitoring using novel technologies and data management tools. Her work includes the areas of separations and sensors (including microfluidics), materials for sensing and antifouling applications on aquatic deployed systems. 

P.J. Byrne is Professor of Operations Management in Dublin City University Business School and is former Head of Group and member of the schools Faculty Management Board (2012 - 2015). He is also currently a member of the schools Faculty Management Board as an elected professorial member (2018 - present). Prior to joining DCU he worked in the Enterprise Research Centre in the University of Limerick from 2004 - 2007.

Prof. Byrne led the development of DCU's BSc in Aviation Management (with pilot studies) in 2008 and the MSc in Aviation Leadership in 2014. He chaired both programmes from development until September 2016. He has sat on a number of external programme accreditation panels across a range of Irish Higher Level Educational Institutes and is presently acting as external examiner for academic programmes in University College Cork. He also held an external examiner position in City University, Hong Kong from Jan 2015 - Jan 2019.

Dr Paul Young completed his bachelor degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (BA.BAI.) in Dublin University graduating with a 1st class honours in 1986. He was awarded his PhD for his thesis on the High Frequency Monitoring of Cutting Vibrations under the supervision of Prof Henry Rice and Prof John Fitzpatrick in 1991 by Dublin University.  This research was partially funded through EOLAS (now Enterprise Ireland).

From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a project engineer for ESTECH Corp., a Computer Aided Engineering consultancy which was a joint venture between NISSAN and SDRC.  For the most part projects dealt with the testing, analysis and modelling of vehicles for the purposes of reducing noise and vibration, but also took in parts reliability and development of software systems to automate modelling.

Returning to Ireland in 1995, he joined the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in University College Dublin under Prof. Gerry Byrne.  Working on EU projects (NEMPRO and COMPRO) looking at the simulation and monitoring of cutting processes he also managed a number of locally funded development projects with Irish industry.

Dr Garrett McGuinness is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Dublin City University. He joined the academic staff of DCU in 2000 having previously held industry roles in medical device development at Hollister Incorporated and in engineering consultancy at MCS International (now Wood Group). Prior to that, he obtained BE and PhD degrees, in Mechanical Engineering and Polymeric Composite Materials respectively, from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has also held visiting positions at US universities.

At Dublin City University, he has developed a strong research programme in biomaterials engineering and the development of novel medical devices. He is interested in the development of functional biomaterials and scaffolds for wound healing and tissue regeneration, with particular emphasis on the multi-scale mechanics of polymeric gels and soft or fibrous biomaterials. He also has long established interests in polymer manufacturing and prototyping processes. He is a  DCU PI on the H2020-NMBP-2017 project Personalized And/Or Generalized Integrated Biomaterial Risk Assessment — PANBioRA.

Dr. Anne Morrissey graduated with a Chemical Engineering degree from University College Dublin and a PhD from NUI Galway, Ireland. She has worked in and been carrying out research in the area of environmental protection since 1996. Prior to joining DCU, she worked with Smurfit Kappa group for more than 10 years in a variety of roles, including Environmental Manager with Smurfit Corrugated Cases. She has received funding to date from a variety of funders including Science Foundation Ireland, FP7, the Environmental Protection Agency and Questor. She is currently on secondment from Dublin City University to Princess Nora University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she is working on water conservation projects.

B.Eng. Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Limerick. M.Sc. Aerospace Structures and Materials awarded from the University of Limerick. Worked as a Technical Trainer in Ericsson Systems Expertise. Worked as a Mechanical Engineer in Dublin Bus. Appointed as a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Dublin City University. Awarded a Ph.D. in non linear finite element analysis from Dublin City University.

Dr Yan Delauré is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Fluid Mechanics in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU) and the Deputy Director of the DCU Water Institute. He received his PhD from University College Cork in 2001 and holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur in Aeronautical Engineering from ESTACA, France and a M.Sc. in Marine Resources Development and Protection from Heriot Watt University, Scotland. Prior to joining DCU, he was a research engineer at the Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre in Cork for a period of 5 years and held a one year post-doctoral research in multiphase flow at Trinity College Dublin.   Dr Delauré has played a leading role in the setup of a research group in the area multiphase flow characterization and the development of dedicated research facilities to support dual computational and experimental research. He has received financial support from Science Foundation Ireland, the Irish Research Council, Enterprise Ireland and the EU FP7 and H2020 programmes. He is currently leading an EI co-funded industrial project and is a Workpackage leader and DCU principal lead on a EU H2020 Research Innovation Action. He has co-authored more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Dr.  Sreenilayam is Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Dublin City University since June 2023. Dr Sreenilayam is a Principal Investigator in the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre, Dublin City University and Funded Investigator in the I-Form, The SFI Research Centre for Advanced Manufacturing. She received M.Sc. in physics from Mahatma Gandhi University, India, and Ph.D. in Soft Matter Physics from the Technological University Dublin (TUD), Ireland. Her Ph.D. focused on fundamental soft matter physics underpinning the next generation of novel functional materials. Dr Sreenilayam has extensive research experience in Soft Matter Science, Fibre Optics, Laser systems, Photovoltaics, Advanced Manufacturing, Nanomaterials, and flexible printed electronics.

David Kinahan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering since October 2018. David completed a BEng in Aeronautical Engineering (2003) and a PhD (2008) at University of Limerick (UL). His PhD focused on high-throughput droplet microfluidics for DNA analysis. In late 2007 David joined Stokes Bio Ltd, a spin-out from UL, as a Senior Engineer, and was later promoted to Engineering Manager leading a team of 10 engineers. In January 2012 David joined the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute  in DCU and since then has applied microfluidics to a wide range of application areas including human health (HIV diagnostics, CTC detection, CVD diagnostics, liver disease, early detection of bacterial meningitis) and point-of-use testing (plant pathogen detection, environmental monitoring etc). From January 2017 until October 2018 David was a Group Leader within Fraunhofer Project Center at Dublin City University (FPC@DCU).

Dr Geraghty joined the School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University on the 6th of January 2003 as a lecturer in Manufacturing Systems Engineering. He undertook his Masters (by Research) and PhD theses at the Enterprise Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland under the supervision of Dr. Cathal Heavey. For his Master’s thesis he carried out research into the application of order release mechanisms, such as CONWIP, Starvation Avoidance and Drum-Buffer-Rope to batch production flow-shop environments. For his PhD thesis he conducted research into the comparative performances of several production control strategies, such as Kanban, CONWIP and Hybrid Kanban-CONWIP, for parallel/serial transfer lines in the presence of uncertainty in customer demand.

Reihaneh Aghamolaei joined Dublin City University (DCU) in 2021. Prior to this appointment, she served as a lecturer at University College Dublin (UCD) and Griffith College Dublin, specialising in building energy performance, renewable energy systems, and energy optimisation. She also worked as a sustainability engineer in Ireland's Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, focusing on designing sustainable buildings and assessing the energy performance and carbon emissions of buildings. Reihaneh holds a degree in Building Engineering (2013) and a master's in Sustainable Planning (2015), both awarded with first-class honours. She pursued advanced research on whole-building energy simulation at UCD’s Energy Institute and completed her PhD at the University of Tehran (UT), focusing on the thermal impacts of built environments on urban-scale microclimates. Her research interests include building energy performance, techno-economic energy optimisation, and renewable energy integration, with an emphasis on employing novel and holistic modelling techniques.

Dr. Mohammad Saffari, an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University, specializes in smart and energy-efficient buildings and energy systems technologies, focusing on sustainable buildings and renewable energy. Utilizing simulation and optimization methods, his research evaluates the energy-saving potential of thermal energy storage (TES) materials and renewable systems to enhance sustainability. Dr. Saffari’s extensive multidisciplinary experience in building and renewable energy research, cultivated through collaborations across Spain, Germany, Australia, and Ireland, enriches his expertise.

Éadaoin is an Assistant  Professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in Dublin City University (DCU) since November 2021. She holds a B.Sc in Physics and Biomedical Sciences (DCU - 2014). She worked as a research assistant in the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute designing and optimising lab-on-a-disc plaforms for ELISA assay implementation and novel valving technology. Éadaoin then began working in the National Centre for Sensor Research developing electrochemical detection assays for nucleic acids before successfully securing an Irish Research Council PhD scholarship in 2016 where she developed a novel biosensing plaform for rapid sepsis detection along with E.coli detection using novel aptamers for multiple assay types. She won multiple awards as a PhD candidate, including the Colin Barnes awards and DCU Innovation award. In 2019 she began working on various projects such as single cell capture device manufacture, nucleic acid purification, plant pathogen detection and 2 degrees of freedom technology for sample aliquoting and preparation.

Dr Greg McNamara is an Assistant Professor in Sustainable Engineering and Energy Systems in the  School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Dublin City University.  As one of only a very few established LCA practitioners in Ireland, he is, and has been involved in a wide variety of engineering-based research projects.  Dr McNamara is currently working on the H2020 NewSkin project on advancing the industrial uptake of advanced surface nano-technologies.  The focus of Dr McNamara’s early research was water and wastewater treatment system technologies;  specifically, the environmental and economic impacts of treatment systems.  Recent projects of note include the EU H2020 Saltgae Solution project (2016 – 2019); a system  to treat saline wastewater from the food and beverage industry with  microalgae.  Prior to this, Dr. McNamara  has worked on a variety of EPA funded water and wastewater treatment projects.

Nigel completed his B.Eng in Mechatronic Engineering from Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland in 2002 and began working as a research assistant in the National Centre for Sensor Research Ireland in the area of microfluidic platform design and fabrication. In 2009 he completed his PhD, carried out part time in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute in the area of cardiovascular diagnostics. Nigel then moved to Technical University Dublin and in parallel set up his own consulting company working on research projects such as water quality sensors for pollutant detection, ammonia breath sensing for clinical applications, feasibility of additive manufacturing for replication tooling and instrumentation development for quality control of pharmaceutical packaging manufacturing. In 2018 Nigel moved to the Institute of Technology, Carlow where he took up the position of director of engineering research. In July 2021 Nigel returned to DCU as an Assistant Professor (Mechatronic Engineering) in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. In February 2024 Nigel became Deputy Head of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

Dr James Carton is Assistant Professor in Sustainable Energy in Dublin City University, Ireland. Dr Carton’s research focus is energy sustainability & green Hydrogen deployment through techno-economic modelling, Power-to-X and renewable energy storage research. Dr Carton is founder of Hydrogen Ireland Association, academic advisor to Hydrogen Mobility Ireland & hydrogen expert to the United Nations-ECE. Dr Carton is Principal Lead of HyLight a 25 industry partner & government of Ireland SFI funded project with the Irish Marine Renewable energy institute to investigate the role of hydrogen to support decarbonisation on the island of Ireland. Dr Carton has also been awarded EU project funding for HySkills to inform and up-skill technicians and first responders about hydrogen technology to allow our workforce and economy to take advantage of the opportunities Ireland has to develop cleaner, greener technologies in the fight against climate change.

Dr. Lorna Fitzsimons is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in DCU. Research expertise and interests include the water-energy nexus: water and wastewater treatment; thermodynamics and exergy analysis; energy auditing, modelling and benchmarking; LCA; control and automation for energy efficiency. The focus of her PhD was the energy optimisation in the semiconductor manufacturing industry (Intel).  She has coordinated and delivered two EPA funded projects which audited, benchmarked and modelled the energy and resource efficiency of Irish wastewater treatment plants. She has a strong track record of funding success: EPA, H2020, SFI, Enterprise Ireland.

Owen completed his degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Limerick (2005), after which he spent a short time working at Stryker Ortopaedics. He completed his PhD from the University of Limerick in 2009 in the field of spinal orthopaedic biomaterials. In 2010, he joined the South Eastern Applied Materials (SEAM) Research Centre at the South East Technological University (SETU). He moved to DCU in 2012 having been awarded an IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship and attained tenure in 2016 after attaining two successful Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Funds. He was awarded the DCU President’s award for innovation in 2017. Owen is currently Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at DCU, Chairperson of the Engineering Teaching Enhancement Committee and School Teaching Convenor. He is Director of the Biomaterials Research Group (biomaterials.ie) and Principle Investigator in Biodesign Europe, DCU Life Science Institute, the DCU Centre for Medical Engineering Research and the Advanced Processing Technology (APT) Research Centre.

Dr. Ronán McCann is an Assistant Professor in the School of Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering. He joined DCU in 2024, having previously been Lecutrer in Physics in the Faculty of Science and Computing at South East Technological University. He completed his honours degree in Applied Physics in 2012 and graduated with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2018 for his thesis examining laser fabrication of polymer-based ultra-thin layer chromatography platforms. He has experience in a wide range of fields including plasma science, vacuum technology, laser systems and material science and metrology.

He is currently Principle Investigator on the TU RISE-funded NanoAlloy project, and Funded Investigator in the I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. His active areas of research include laser-material interaction and nanoparticle production via Laser Ablation Synthesis in Solution (LASiS), additive manufacturing (3D printing), and AI/Smart Manufacturing.

Shirley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering, and Programme Chair for DCU's new programme BSc Global Challenges. Shirley received her BEng in Electronic Engineering from DCU in 2000, and worked in Siemens Ireland Ltd and Siemens AG, Munich for two years as a Telecoms Engineer.  In 2005 she graduated from NUI Maynooth with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, developing the first optical-based brain-computer interface.  From 2001 until 2008 she studied part-time at the Grafton Academy to receive a Diploma in Fashion Design, and also worked as a fashion design tutor there. From 2005 until 2015 she worked in the National Centre for Sensor Research in DCU developing wearable sensors and smart textiles.  This included pioneering work in creating the first wearable chemical sensors.  Shirley was a Research Fellow and Team Leader of Wearable sensors in the INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics.  During that time, she had the honour to serve on the Governing Authority from 2011 until 2015. Shirley continued postgraduate studies in Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Innovation in UCD’s Innovation Academy in 2017, and she founded her own consultancy business in the area of wearable technologies from 2018 until 2019.

Dr. Mingming Liu is a tenured Assistant Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU). Mingming was a data scientist, applied researcher, and H2020 project lead (5G-Solutions) at IBM Ireland Lab, where the main focus of his work was to leverage the state-of-the-art machine learning and applied optimisation techniques for practical and challenging problems arising in the industry. Before IBM, he worked at University College Dublin as a (senior) postdoctoral research fellow with the Control Engineering and Decision Science Research Group within the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He spent almost three years working on both EU and SFI funded projects at UCD, including Green Transportation and Networks (SFI) and Enable-S3 (H2020), with strong collaborations with both academia and industrial partners.

Dr. Prince Anandarajah received the B.Eng (Electronic Engineering) degree from University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1992. Subsequently, he worked as an Instructor/Maintenance Engineer at the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology. On completing his M.Eng (1998), he joined the Radio and Optical Communications Group at DCU where he obtained his PhD degree (2003). He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher until 2006 and later as a Research Officer with the High Speed Devices and Systems centre which is part of the Rince institute (2007). He then held a DCU senior research fellow position until 2016 and is currently a lecturer with the School of Electronic Engineering at DCU. His main research interests include high-speed optical communications, photonic sensing, direct modulation techniques, generation and optimization of optical frequency combs and short optical pulses, spectrally efficient modulation formats and radio-over-fibre distribution systems. In 2016, he was presented with the DCU president’s research award for outstanding research achievements. He has published over 200 articles in internationally peer reviewed journals and conferences and is also a holder of 5 international patents, 2 of which have been licenced by industry. He is also a founder and a director of a spin-off company called Pilot Photonics. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Fiona Regan is Professor in Chemistry at Dublin City University and Director of the DCU Water Institute. Fiona studied Environmental Science and Technology and later completed a PhD in analytical chemisty in 1994. Following postdoctoral research in optical sensing in DCU, in 1996 she took up a lecturing position at Limerick Institute of Technology. In 2002 Fiona joined the School of Chemical Sciences as a lecturer in analytical chemistry, in 2008 she became senior lecturer and in 2009 became the Beaufort Principal Investigator in Marine and Environmental Sensing.
Fiona’s research focuses on environmental monitoring and she has special interest in priority and emerging contaminants as well as the establishment of decision support tools for environmental monitoring using novel technologies and data management tools. Her work includes the areas of separations and sensors (including microfluidics), materials for sensing and antifouling applications on aquatic deployed systems.

Susan completed her degree in Medicinal Chemistry in Trinity College Dublin (2005), after which she carried out her PhD in Organic Chemistry (2009), as well as a short post-doc in biodegradable chewing gum, in University College Dublin (UCD). In 2010, she moved to the Technical University Berlin, where she worked on the nano- and micro- surface patterning of biomaterials and investigated the ability of these surfaces to influence cell behaviour. In 2012, Susan joined Dublin City University (DCU), where she worked for 2 years on the functionalisation of surfaces and nanoparticles for use in point-of-care devices, and in 2014, secured independent funding to begin her own research projects in the areas of bioresponsive materials, nanopatterning and biomimetic engineering. In October 2016, Susan was appointed Assistant Professor of Soft Materials in UCD School of Chemistry and set up the Nanostructured Biomaterials Group. In February 2021, the group moved to the School of Chemical Sciences in DCU. In October 2023, she was promoted to Associate Professor.

Dr. Mercedes Vázquez is Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry at the School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University (DCU). She is also a Principal Investigator at the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR), the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre (APT) and the Water Institute (WI), and a Funded Investigator at I-Form. She received her MSc in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 1998. In 1999, she joined the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) as an ERASMUS exchange student, where she continued till obtaining her PhD from Åbo Akademi in 2005. During this period, she worked on the development of potentiometric ion sensors based on conducting polymers for various applications such as chemical process control and clinical analysis. In 2006, she took up a postdoctoral position within the Centre for Bioanalytical Sciences (CBAS) at DCU, where she primarily focused on the development of analytical methods and technologies for the rapid screening of very complex media in biopharmaceutical processes. She then joined the Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC), DCU, in 2009, where she coordinated a research program focused on the development of novel microfluidic platforms for a wide range of (bio)analytical applications, including biotechnology and environmental analysis. 

Dr. Karsten Fleischer is an Associate Professor on Surface and Interface Science and Characterisation of Advanced Materials/Nanomaterials in the School of Physical Sciences in Dublin City University since 2018. He received his PhD at the TU Berlin in 2005. He was an IRCSET Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin till 2007 and continued to work as Postdoctoral Fellow in TCDs Applied Physics Research Group.
 

Dr. Fleischer's research focuses on thin film oxides and oxide surface modifications for energy and ICT applications. This includes their thorough characterisation in terms of stoichiometry, optical-, electrical-, and crystallographic properties using various deposition and characterisation techniques. His research also includes the investigations of the surface states in such oxides by electrical and surface sensitive optical characterisation methods.

Currently, I am Associate Professor in the School of Physical Sciences at Dublin City University (DCU). 

Generally my research domain is the theoretical Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics (AMO). The bulk of my research is in the atomic/molecular structure theory/code development (MCHF, CI - B splines, R-Matrix etc) and high-performance computing simulations of intense/ultra-short laser-atom dynamics.

My past professional posts include several research institutes in Europe; namely, in chronological order, the Institute of Electronic Structure/IESLFORTH, Greece; the Max–Planck Institute for Quantum Optics/MPQ, Garching, Germany; the Physics and Astronomy Institute, Aarhus, Denmark; the School of Mathematics and Physics, QUB, United Kingdom. My publications include two books (2019, 2022), book chapters, conference proceedings and peer-reviewed international research articles.

Dr. Stephen Power is an Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Sciences.

He is involved in the development of new modules for the Physics with Data Analytics programme, which is part of the larger DCU Futures Initiative.

His own research is in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics, with a focus on the electronic, spin and valley properties of two-dimensional materials and heterostructures.

Before joining DCU in 2021, he received a Ph.D. in Physics from TCD in 2012 and worked as a researcher and lecturer in Denmark, Spain and Ireland. 

Dr. Robert O’Connor graduated with a BSc. in Applied Physics from Dublin City University in 2001 and a PhD in Semiconductor Physics from the same institution in 2005, which focused on the characterization of advanced materials for ultra-large scale complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) processes.
In 2006 he worked at Intel Ireland as a process engineer, during which time he was awarded a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship to work at IMEC, Belgium on electrical characterization of high-k dielectric materials. Following this, in 2009 he secured an Irish Research Council EMBARK Fellowship to continue his research on the characterisation of dielectric materials for future CMOS technologies. The project, which received follow-up funding from the Science Foundation Ireland ‘FORME’ Strategic Research Cluster, focused on the characterisation of the interfacial region in MOSFET devices with high-k dielectrics and group III-V high mobility substrates in collaboration with Intel.

Dr. Jennifer Gaughran is an Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Sciences in DCU and the Chair of the Physics with Biomedical Sciences degree programme. She graduated from DCU in 2011 with a degree in Physics with Astronomy and completed her PhD in 2016, which focused on the design and testing of microfluidic devices for rapid DNA and RNA detection. From 2016 to 2017 she was the Centre Manager of the Advanced Processing Technology (APT) research centre in DCU. She is currently the primary supervisor of three PhD students. She is the winner of the IOPI Rosse Medal, National Thesis in 3 and Tell-It-Straight competitions 2014 and was shortlisted for the IOP Bell-Burnell Early Stage Female Physicist of the year award in 2016.

Claudia Mazo is an Assistant Profesor at Dublin City University (DCU) since 2022, a management committee member of the COST Action: CA22103 - A Comprehensive Network Against Brain Cancer from 2023, and an Ad Honorem Lecturer at Universidad del Valle since 2019. From 2021 to 2022, she was a Research Fellow at University College Dublin (UCD). From 2017 to 2021, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow with UCD Computer Science School, CeADAR, and Oncomark Ltd, Dublin - Ireland. From 2017 to 2018, she worked as a Researcher at Vicomtech with the eHealth and Biomedical Applications Area, San Sebastian-Donostia, Spain. She received a double degree PhD, the first one in Engineering in Production and Computing Doctorate from the Universidad de León, León, Spain, in 2016, and the second one in Engineering Doctorate with Emphasis in Computer Science from the Universidad del Valle, Cali, in 2017. From 2009 to 2011, she worked as a young researcher at the Universidad del Valle with the Multimedia and Computer Vision Group.

Dr. Pádraig Murphy is Associate Professor in Communications at Dublin City University and Chair of the MSc in Science and Health Communication programme.  

While starting out as an environmental biotechnology graduate, Dr Murphy moved into science communication and Science and Technology Studies in the late nineties, as well as content management in e-learning. His teaching and research interests include science communication, and public engagement with science and technology. 

Dr. Brian Freeland is an Associate Professor in Bioprocess engineering, in the School of Biotechnology, with main research areas in Bioprocess development for biomaterials, functional foods and nanotechnology. He completed his degree in Mechatronic Engineering in 2005, MSc in Mechanical with Bioprocessing Engineering in 2009 and PhD in 2020. His PhD work surrounds process control and optimisation in the field of nanomaterials.

He has several years experience working with Irish Food, beverage and BioPharma industries producing new-to-world solutions and process development in terms of bioprocess solutions and the Circular BioEconomy.

Dr. Keith Rochfort is an Assistant Professor of Biosciences based in the School of Biotechnology. He received his BSc. in Analytical Science (2004) and PhD in Vascular Science (2013) from Dublin City University. Part of PRTLI Targeted Therapeutics and Theranostics (T3) Program, his PhD focused on endothelial cell signalling and blood vessel remodeling in response to health and disease. Upon graduating, he undertook a Science Foundation Ireland-funded Postdoctoral position with the Conway Institute at University College Dublin (2013-2016), before returning to DCU as a Senior Research Scientist as part of a Science Foundation Ireland US-Ireland Research Program developing genomic therapeutics towards vascular disease (2016-2018). He was hired as Assistant Professor by the School of Biotechnology in 2018, before moving to the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy, and Community Health (2021-Present), delivering and coordinating modules for Schools within the Faculty of Science and Health, and Faculty of Engineering and Computing, whilst also advancing his research as part of the Endothelial Biology Group at DCU. His research interests include healthy ageing and sustainability, with an focus on environmental factors which drive the pathological mechanisms and associated signalling events of vascular disease states, and developing diagnostic and therapeutic interventions towards such.