Academic biography

Professor Theo Lynn is (Full) Professor of Digital Business at DCU Business School. Professor Lynn specializes in the role of digital technologies in transforming business and society. He has been published widely including JASIST, the European Journal of Marketing, Information, Communications and Society, Computers and Human Behavior, New Media & Society, the Journal of Distributed and Parallel Computing, the International Journal of Advertising, European Planning Studies and others. He is the Series Editor on the Palgrave Studies in Digital Business & Enabling Technologies. He is a regular speaker at both academic and industry conferences. 

He was formerly Principal Investigator of the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce, an EI/IDA funded Cloud Computing Technology Centre (2011-2018), Associate Dean at DCU Business School (2015-17; 2020-21; 2024-25), Business Innovation Platform Director for DCU (2015-2016) and Director of the Leadership, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre at DCU (2009-2011).  He has won over 250 grants representing over €20m in total project funding. He was a PI on the Horizon 2020 CloudLightning Project (2015-2017),  Horizon 2020 RECAP Project (2017-2019), and Horizon 2020 RINNO project (2020-2025). He is the Grant Holder Scientific Representative on the SMART-RURAL COST Action and Science Communications Officer on the MARGISTAR COST Action.

Professor Lynn received a Bachelor in Business and Legal Studies, an MBS (Management Information Systems) and a PhD (Law), all from University College Dublin. He has been a Visiting Professor to Tec de Monterrey (Mexico), Northeastern University (China), and Tongji University (China) amongst others. He has taught modules in corporate finance law and information systems and database design at UCD and digital marketing and business analytics at NUI Maynooth. Professor Lynn is an Expert Evaluator for the European Commission and Qatar National Research Fund.

Professor Lynn has founded a number of companies incl. Enki Information Systems, Educational Multimedia Group and Atomic Assets, the businesses of which have been acquired by Rochford Brady Group, Intuition and Cambridge University Press respectively.  He advises a number of domestic and international companies.