Our People

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.

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 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.

Dr Yan Delauré is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Fluid Mechanics in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University. 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.    

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.

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. Mohammad Saffari is an assistant professor at Dublin City University. He is specialised in smart and energy-efficient buildings and energy systems technologies. His main areas of research are sustainable buildings and renewable energy, particularly the application of simulation and optimization methods to evaluate the potential of thermal energy storage (TES) materials for energy saving. He has been actively engaged in multidisciplinary and high-profile research and development projects in the domain of sustainable buildings and energy systems across different countries e. g.  Spain, Germany, Australia, and Ireland. 

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.