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Professor Colm O’Dwyer named Fellow of The Electrochemical Society
School of Chemistry Professor Colm O’Dwyer was honoured for outstanding contributions to materials chemistry leading to innovations in solid state devices and electrochemical energy storage technology.
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) named 12 members to the 2025 Class of Fellows of The Electrochemical Society.
This designation “Fellow of The Electrochemical Society” was established in 1989 to recognize advanced individual technological contributions to electrochemistry and solid state science and technology, and for service to the Society. These members are recognized for scientific achievements, leadership, and active participation in the Society.
Each year, up to 15 renowned scientists and engineers from around the globe are chosen by their peers for this honour.
“I am very grateful to be selected as a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society,” O’Dwyer said. “This recognition is a humbling gesture and professional endorsement by my peers in the fields of electrochemical and solid state sciences, and holds a lot of meaning for me.”
After receiving his PhD in 2003 on semiconductor electrochemistry and physics, he conducted postdoctoral research on ultracold atom cooling in Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. He was a Science Foundation Ireland Stokes Lecturer on Nanomaterials at the University Limerick from 2008-2012, and now leads a multidisciplinary research group at UCC developing 3D printed batteries, energy storage materials, optoelectronic materials science and processes, and photonic structures. He has been an ECS member for 24 years, since 2001, after attending the 199th Meeting in Washington D.C as a graduate student. In that time, he has served ECS continuously in many roles. He has organized or co-organized over 40 ECS symposia in electrochemical and solid-state topics since 2007. He has served the Electronic and Photonics Division as an Executive Committee Member for over 12 years, and more recently Division Chair. As service to ECS, he has chaired many of the Society’s standing committees and is a member of the Board of Directors. Professor O’Dwyer served as ECS Vice-President from 2021-2024, and as ECS President from 2024-2025.
Professor Anita Maguire, Head of School, said: “To be selected as a Fellow of the world’s oldest and largest electrochemical and solid-state science and technology organization is an honour that goes to a select few. It is testament to Colm’s leadership, international reputation and research excellence in electrochemistry and solid-state science that his work has been recognised in this manner.”
About The Electrochemical Society
The nonprofit professional Electrochemical Society has led the world in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology and allied subjects since 1902. We advance scientific theory and practice through publications, meetings, continuing education, and collaboration. Our robust global membership develops solutions to the planet’s major challenges. Scientists, engineers, and industry leaders share research at ECS biannual, co-hosted, and sponsored meetings. The ECS Digital Library on IOPscience hosts abstracts and peer-reviewed articles from publications including the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (the oldest journal in its field), ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, and new open access journals ECS Sensors Plus and ECS Advances.