In This Section
- Research Career Achievement Award
- Researcher of the Year
- Early-Stage Researcher of the Year
- Global Engagement Research Award
- Research Support Person of the Year
- Research Supervisor of the Year
- Research Communicator of the Year
- Research Team of the Year
- Research Image of the Year
- Best Publication of the Year by an Undergraduate Author
- PhD Student of the Year
- Postdoctoral Researcher of the Year
- Research Culture Award
- Engaged Research of the Year
- Vice-President for Research and Innovation UCC Futures Award for Interdisciplinary Research
- The President's Award for Research Impacting the Sustainable Development Goals
- Consultancy Project of the Year
- Invention of the Year
- Licence of the Year
- Spin-out Company of the Year
- Start-up of the Year
- Industry Research Collaboration of the Year
Research & Innovation Award Winners 2025
| Award Category |
Winner |
Affiliation |
| Researcher of the Year | Professor Gillian Murphy Professor Suzanne Timmons |
School of Applied Psychology School of Medicine |
| Early-Stage Researcher of the Year | Professor Eugene Costello | School of History |
| Research Career Achievement Award | Professor Maggie O'Neill Professor Paul O'Toole |
School of Society, Politics & Ethics School of Microbiology |
| Global Engagement Research Award | Dr. Yensi Flores Bueso |
Cancer Research @UCC |
| Research Team of the Year | Energy Policy & Modelling Group | Sustainability Institute |
| Research Supervisor of the Year | Professor Justin Holmes | School of Chemistry |
| PhD Student of the Year | Tengfei Lyu |
School of Computer Science & IT |
| Dean of Doctoral Studies PhD Student of the Year | Amir Shahhosseini Angas |
School of Society, Politics & Ethics |
| Postdoctoral Researcher of the Year | Dr. Cristina Rosell Cardona |
APC Microbiome Ireland |
| Research Communicator of the Year | Professor Jens Walter Dr. Oliver Browne |
School of Microbiology Cork University Business School |
| Research Image of the Year | Jennifer Ahern Rupa Ranjani Palanisamy |
School of Society, Politics & Ethics School of Chemistry |
| Research Support Person of the Year | Peter Hourihane | Sustainability Institute |
| Vice President for Research & Innovation Award for Interdisciplinary Research | U-Protein Project Team (Professor Thia Hennessy, Professor Seamus O’Mahony, Dr. Marie Merlo, Dr. Cathal Buckley) | School of Food & Nutritional Sciences Cork University Business School Teagasc |
| Best Publication of the Year Involving an Undergraduate Author | Charles O'Brien | School of Computer Science & Information Technology |
| Research Culture Award | Dr. Brendan Palmer | Clinical Research Facility |
| The President's Award for Research Impacting the Sustainable Development Goals | Professor Marguerite Nyhan | School of Engineering & Architecture |
| Engaged Research of the Year | Women of the Borderlands (Dr. Theresa O'Keefe, Dr. Dyuti Chakravarty, Dr. Niall Gilmartin, Dr. Brenda Mondragon Toledo, Catherine McElherron) Cancer Research @UCC PPI Team |
School of Society, Politics & Ethics
Cancer Research @UCC |
| Invention of the Year | Dr. Rasha Alshaikh, Dr. Katie Ryan; Professor Christian Waeber | School of Pharmacy |
| Licence of the Year | Professor Padraig Cantillon-Murphy, Dr. Manish Srivastava, Dr. Killian O'Donoghue, Dr. Alexander Jaeger, Dr. Daniel O'Hare, Dr. Aleksandr Sidun | School of Engineering & Architecture, Microelectronics Research Technology Centre Tyndall National Institute |
| Spin-out Company of the Year | ArrayPatch (Dr. Waleed Faisal) | School of Pharmacy |
| Consultancy Project of the Year | Professor Paul Brady | Cork University Dental School & Hospital |
| Start-up of the Year | Ruth Hendrick | Target Alert Group |
| Industry Research Collaboration of the Year | Professor Maria Sousa Gallagher & Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines | School of Engineering & Architecture |
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