External Activities
Appointments / Memberships: External Bodies

• Member, American Oil Chemists' Society
• Member, Nutritional Sciences Committee, Royal Irish Academy
• Member, Fellow of the Institute of Food Science & Technology
• Member, Biochemical Society
• External Examiner for PhD degree, Department of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin
• External member of selection Board for Dublin Institute of Technology
• External Grant Reviewer for the Scottish Hospital Endowments Research Trust and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
• Referee for Reproduction, Fertility and Development, CSIRO Publishing, Australia, and Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, The Netherlands

• Extern examiner of PhD thesis, University of Limerick, September 2001
• Extern examiner of MSc thesis, University of Limerick, April 2001
• Extern examiner of PhD thesis, University of Leeds, November 2000
• Extern assessor of Irish-language A-level Biology examination papers, CCEA Northern Ireland, December 2000 and January 2001
• Conducted peer-review of research manuscripts submitted to the journals (i) 'Enzyme and Microbial Technology', April 2001, and (ii) 'Polymer International', September 2001

• Member of the Royal Irish Academy, National Committee for Biology
• Council member of the Irish Association for Cancer Research
• Professional Bodies - Member of the Irish Association for Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research, Biochemical Society and the Irish Research Scientists Association

• Appointed Secretary, National Commission for Microbiology, Royal Irish Academy
• Elected Member, Irish Branch, Society for General Microbiology

• Appointed External Examiner in Biochemistry to Athlone Institute of Technology and Institute of Technology Tallaght
• Appointed External examiner for M.Sc. thesis National University of Ireland, Cork

• Member, National Committee for Biochemistry, Royal Irish Academy
• Chairman, Trans-Committee Working Group on Youth Activities, Royal Dublin Society Trustee (Emeritus), International Contact Trust
• Vice President, London International Youth Science Forum
• Vice Chairman, Science Committee, Royal Dublin Society
• Reviewer for Scientific Papers for Journal of Immunological Methods, The Analyst, Journal of Chromatography, Analytical Letters, Chemical Communications and FEBS Letters.
• Fellow, Institute of Biology of Ireland
• Member, Institute of Biology (UK)
• Chartered Biologist (C. Biol.)
• Member, Biochemical Society
• Member, European Association for Cell and Tissue Culture
• Course External Examiner, NUI, Cork Institute of Technology, Tralee Institute of Technology and Limerick Institute of Technology
• External Examiner, National Council for Educational Awards (NCEA)
• Organiser, Irish National Team for Biology Olympiad
• Member of the Editorial Board of Analytical Letters
• Member of the Editorial Board of Enzyme & Microbial Biotechnology
• External Examiner, NUI, Maynooth
• External Examiner for M.Sc., Cork Institute of Technology

• President of the Institute of Biology of Ireland
• Member of the judging panel at the Esat Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition
• Extern examiner for the NCEA

• Corporate member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
• Corporate member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)
• Member of editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology

• Member, Irish Research Scientists' Association
• Associate Member, Institution of Chemical Engineers
• Reviewer, Biotechnology and Bioengineering