Suzanne O'Keefe
Biography
Suzanne O’Keeffe has an MSc and BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She has over ten years of work experience in HVAC consulting, Green Building consulting, and failure investigations, and most recently worked for herself conducting thermal modelling and energy compliance reporting in South Africa.
She is currently pursuing a four-year PhD funded by the Science Foundation Ireland through MaREI— the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate, and Marine—and the Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Resilience and the Built Environment. Her research involves the development of a methodology and associated toolkits for carbon neutrality of the industrial sector, using a local medical device manufacturing site as a case study.