Academic biography

Dr Amy Hall is the Senior European Research Development Officer (RDO) for the University. Her responsibilities include developing and delivering DCU's strategy for engagement with European research funding, and providing pre-award support to individuals engaged in proposal development and preparation. She works closely with the Faculty RDOs and the wider Research Development and Support team, as well as engaging directly with all Faculties and Schools. Amy also currently chairs the European Consortium of Innovative Universities' Research and Innovation Group.

Amy previously worked as the Funding Development Officer for Insight@DCU, where she developed and delivered the non-Exchequer-non-commercial (NE-NC) funding strategy for the SFI Research Centre's DCU site. In this role, she also supported proposal development and submission to a wide range of calls published by both NE-NC and Exchequer funders. Amy has worked in research development and project management since 2018, when she first joined the DCU Operations Team in the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics.

Amy obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Physics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Nanoscale Science and Technology from The University of Sheffield. She was awarded her PhD in 2015 by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Sheffield for her work characterising the surface adhesion of human pathogens Leishmania mexicana and Streptococcus pneumoniae using force microscopy techniques. Following her PhD, Amy worked as a postdoctoral researcher and team leader on two Enterprise Ireland-funded projects: a Commercialisation Fund (in the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute in DCU) and an Innovation Partnership (in the Fraunhofer Project Centre at DCU). Both of these projects sat within the field of microfluidic diagnostics for the healthcare sector. Amy also lectured in DIT (now TUD), running Biochemistry lab classes in the School of Biological Sciences and coordinating and delivering the Research Methods and Entrepreneurship for Engineers modules in the School of Mechanical and Design Engineering.