UCC Research & Innovation Awards 2022

Award Winners

Award Awardee College/School/Department/Centre/Company
Researcher of the Year Professor Paul Ross
Professor Dagmar Schiek
APC Microbiome Ireland
School of Law
Early Stage Researcher of the Year Dr Jean O'Dwyer
Dr Piotr Kowalski
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
School of Pharmacy and APC Microbiome Ireland
Research Support Person of the Year Martin O'Connell
Dr Seán Lucey
IPIC - SFI Centre for Photonics, Tyndall National Institute
College of Business and Law
Research Supervisor of the Year Professor Catherine Stanton

Dr Emanuel Popovici
APC Microbiome Ireland and Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
School of Engineering & Architecture
Research Communicator of the Year Professor Hannah Daly ERI and MaREI
Research Award for Open Science Professor Colm O'Dwyer School of Chemistry
Creating a Culture for Responsible Conduct of Research Dr Aoife Coffey UCC Library
Innovator of the Year (Life Sciences)
Dr Patrick Harrison and Dr Lucia Santos Department of Physiology
Innovator of the Year (Physical Sciences) Dr Han Shao, Dr Alan O'Riordan and D Tarun Narayan Tyndall National Institute
Consultancy Project of the Year
Dr Marguerite Nyhan School of Engineering & Architecture
Licence of the Year
Dr Emma McIvor and Professor Sebastian Wieczorek Applied Mathematics UCC and Mercy University Hospital
Spin-out Company of the Year
Professor Paul Ross and Professor Colin Hill Adiso Therapeutics
Start-up of the Year
Stephen McCarthy Recruitroo
Best Publication - Undergraduate Author
Ruairí McIntyre School of Law
Research Team of the Year
UCC Palaeontology School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Research Image of the Year Roksana Niewadzisz School of Film, Music & Theatre
Engaged Research of the Year
Professor Maggie O'Neill Department of Sociology & Criminology
Vice-President for Research and Innovation Awards fir Interdisciplinary Research
Dr Katharina Becker
Dr James O'Sullivan
Department of Archaeology
School of English & Digital Humanities
Research Collaboration of the Year
Dr Patrick O'Callaghan
Professor Brendan Griffin
School of Law
School of Pharmacy
The President's Award for Research Impacting the Sustainable Development Goals Dr Alicia Mateos Cárdenas School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Career Achievement Research Award
Professor John Atkins

Professor Anita Maguire
School of Biochemistry & Cell Biology and School of Microbiology
School of Chemistry and School of Pharmacy

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