People and Awards
Academics
| Name | Liam Marnane  |
| Qualification | PhD Electrical Engineering, University of Oxford |
| Position | Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Head, School of Engineering |
| Research Area | Biomedical Signal Processing and digital design for DSP, coding and cryptography |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 2041 |
| l.marnane@ucc.ie |
| Name | Nabeel Riza  |
Qualification |
PhD Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| Position | Chair Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Research Area | Photonics |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 490 2214 Admin: +353 (0)21 490 2210/2923 |
| n.riza@ucc.ie |
| Name | Elena Tsalaporta  |
| Qualification | ME, Dept of Chem Eng, University of Thessaloniki, PhD, Earth & Natural Sciences Institute, UCD |
| Position | Lecturer, Process & Chemical Engineering |
| Research Area | Carbon capture & direct air capture |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 2501 |
| eleni.tsalaporta@ucc.ie |
| Name | Karsten Menzel  |
| Qualification | PhD Information Technology TU Dresden, Germany |
| Position | Professor, Chair, Information Technology in Architecture, Engineering & Construction |
| Research Area | Further development of Information and Communication Technologies to better support the sustainable design, commissioning and operation of built infrastructure systems. |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 420 5400 |
| k.menzel@ucc.ie |
| Name | Kevin McCartney  |
| Qualification | PhD Arch, Royal College of Art (London) |
| Position | Professor and Director of the Cork Centre for Architectural Education |
| Research Area | Sustainable Architecture, Bioclimatic Design & Responsive Buildings |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 4298402 |
| k.mccartney@ucc.ie |
| Name | Cian Ó Mathúna  |
| Qualification | PhD Electrical Engineering, University College Cork |
| Position | Research Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Research Area | Microsystems |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 490 4350 |
| cian.omathuna@tyndall.ie |
| Name | Kevin McCarthy  |
| Qualification | PhD Electrical Engineering, University College Cork |
| Position | Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Research Area | RF/Microwave Design and Characterization, IC Component Characterization, Integrated Power Electronics, Telecommunications |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 2072 |
| k.mccarthy@ucc.ie |
| Name | Peter Parbrook  |
| Qualification | PhD Physics, University of Strathclyde |
| Position | Stokes Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Academic Member, Tyndall National Institute |
| Research Area | III-Nitride Materials and Devices |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 490 4365 |
| p.parbrook@ucc.ie |
| Name | Jimmy Murphy  |
| Qualification | PhD University College Cork |
| Position | Senior Lecturer in Harbour and Coastal Engineering and Marine Renewable Energy |
| Research Area | Coastal Processes, Coastal Structures, marine Resource Assessment, Offshore Wind, Wave & Tidal Energy |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 4864313 |
| p.parbrook@ucc.ie |
| Name | John Fitzpatrick  |
| Qualification | PhD in Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University |
| Position | Senior Lecturer in Process & Chemical Engineering |
| Research Area | Particle & Powder Technology, Sustainable Process Engineering and Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 490 3089 |
| j.fitzpatrick@ucc.ie |
| Name | Richard Kavanagh  |
| Qualification | PhD Electrical Engineering, UCC |
| Position | Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Research Area | Mechatronics and robotics |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 2827 |
| r.kavanagh@ucc.ie |
| Name | Gordon Lightbody  |
| Qualification | PhD Electrical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast |
| Position | Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering/td> |
| Research Area | Control Systems |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 2255 |
| g.lightbody@ucc.ie |
| Name | Eamon McKeogh  |
| Qualification | PhD Queens University Belfast (UK) |
| Position | Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering |
| Research Area | communications systems for hydropower stations, biofuels, pumped storage, wind energy forecasting. |
| Telephone | +353(0) 21 4902524 |
| e.mckeogh@ucc.ie |
| Name | Alan Morrison  |
| Qualification | PhD Electrical Engineering, UCC |
| Position | Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Dean of Engineering |
| Research Area | Photonics and Quantum Electronics |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 490 2874 |
| a.morrison@ucc.ie |
| Name | Jorge Oliveira  |
| Qualification | PhD University of Leeds (UK) |
| Position | Senior Lecturer in Process and Chemical Engineering |
| Research Area | Product Design Engineering and Cognitive-based design engineering systems |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 2006 |
| j.oliveira@ucc.ie |
| Name | William Wright  |
| Qualification | PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Warwick |
| Position | Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering |
| Research Area | Ultrasonics |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 2213 |
| bill.wright@ucc.ie |
| Name | Edmond Byrne  |
| Qualification | PhD Process & Chemical Engineering, University College Cork |
| Position | Professor & Chair in Process & Chemical Engineering. |
| Research Area | extend to sustainability (including complexity, uncertainty, risk, resilience, thermodynamic basis), chemical engineering education and particulate systems engineering |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 3094 |
| e.byrne@ucc.ie |
| Name | Padraig Cantillon-Murphy  |
| Qualification | PhD Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| Position | Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Research Area | Clinical application of electromagnetic, Biomedical devices, Minimally-invasive surgery, Guidance in surgery |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 3727 |
| p.cantillonmurphy@ucc.ie |
| Name | Kevin Cronin  |
| Qualification | PhD Mechanical Engineering, Brunel University, UK |
| Position | Lecturer in Process Engineering |
| Research Area | Probabilistic Simulation of the thermal processing history of foods incorporating safety and quality |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 490 2644 |
| k.cronin@ucc.ie |
| Name | Yong-Song Fan  |
| Qualification | PhD University of Birmingham |
| Position | Lecturer in Civil Engineering |
| Research Area | Probabilistic Simulation of the thermal processing history of foods incorporating safety and quality |
| Telephone | |
| y.fan@ucc.ie |
| Name | Maria deSousa Gallagher  |
| Qualification | PhD in Biotechnology/Food Processing Engineering at the College of Biotechnology, Catholic University of Portugal |
| Position | Lecturer in Process & Chemical Engineering |
| Research Area | Quality by Design for Food/BioPharmaceutical Systems, Packaging design and optimisaiton; Development of web-based software for packaging design of fresh produce; Mathematical modelling of food systems; Kinetics of quality indicators |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 490 3594 |
| m.desousagallagher@ucc.ie |
| Name | Guangbo Hao  |
| Qualification | PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University |
| Position | Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering |
| Research Area | Compliant parallel manipulators |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 3793 |
| g.hao@ucc.ie |
| Name | John G. Hayes  |
| Qualification | PhD Electrical Engineering, UCC |
| Position | Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Research Area | Power Electronics, Machines and Magnetics for Automotive and Energy Systems |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 3796 |
| john.hayes@ucc.ie |
| Name | Denis Kelliher  |
| Qualification | PhD Civil Engineering, UCC |
| Position | Lecturer in Civil Engineering |
| Research Area | Structures, Engineering Computation, Mathematical Optimisation and Geometry |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 2308 |
| d.kelliher@ucc.ie |
| Name | Paul Leahy  |
| Qualification | PhD Electrical Engineering, UCC |
| Position | Lecturer in Civil Engineering |
| Research Area | Wind Energy Integration, Wind Energy Forecasting and Land/atmosphere interactions |
| Telephone | +353(0)21 490 2017 |
| paul.leahy@ucc.ie |
| Name | Orla McKeever  |
| Qualification | Postgrad. Dip., University College Dublin |
| Position | Lecturer at Cork Centre for Architectural Education |
| Research Area | Buildings and Architecture |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 429 8438 |
| o.mckeever@ucc.ie |
| Name | Colin Murphy  |
| Qualification | PhD Electrical Engineering, UCC |
| Position | Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Research Area | Digital Communications |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 490 2196 |
| cmurphy@rennes.ucc.ie |
| Name | Jerry Murphy  |
| Qualification | PhD University College Cork |
| Position | Associate Professor in Energy Transportation Engineering |
| Research Area | gaseous transport fuels; design of digesters for high solid content feed stocks; life cycle analyses of various biofuel systems |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 490 2286 |
| jerry.murphy@ucc.ie |
| Name | Brian Ó Gallachóir  |
| Qualification | PhD University College Cork |
| Position | Senior Lecturer in Energy Engineering |
| Research Area | Sustainable Energy, Energy Modelling |
| Telephone | +353 (0)21 490 1954 |
| b.ogallachoir@ucc.ie |
| Name | Dominic O'Sullivan |
| Qualification | PhD University College Cork |
| Position | Lecturer in Civil Engineering |
| Research Area | Building Energy Performance Simulation, Advanced HVAC Systems, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems for Buildings. |
| Telephone | |
| dominic.osullivan@ucc.ie |
| Name | Zil Li  |
| Qualification | PhD University of Cambridge |
| Position | Lecturer in Civil Engineering |
| Research Area | Geotechnical Engineering. Soil Mechanics. |
| Telephone | 021 4902670 |
| zili.li@ucc.ie |
| Name | Emanuel Popovici  |
| Qualification | PhD Microelectronic Engineering, UCC |
| Position | Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Research Area | Embedded systems |
| Telephone | +353(0) 21 490 2027 |
| e.popovici@ucc.ie |
| Name | Denis Ring  |
| Qualification | PhD Process and Chemical Engineering, UCC |
| Position | Lecturer in Process and Chemical Engineering |
| Research Area | Process optimisation with particular reference to secondary pharmaceutical manufacture |
| Telephone | +353(0) 21 490 2549 |
| d.ring@ucc.ie |
Support Staff
| Name | Position | Photo |
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| Richard Fitzgerald | Operative |  |
| Ralph O'Flaherty | Operative |  |
| John Barrett | Senior Technical Officer |  |
| Paul Conway | Senior Technical Officer |  |
| Anthony Flaherty | Senior Technical Officer |  |
| James Griffiths | Senior Technical Officer | |
| Gerard Hooton | Senior Technical Officer | |
| Hilary Mansfield | Chief Technical Officer | |
| Michael McLaughlin | Senior Technical Officer | |
| Michael O'Shea | Chief Technical Officer | |
| Niall O'Sullivan | Senior Technical Officer | |
| Timothy Power | Senior Technical Officer | |
| Timothy Twomey | Senior Technical Officer |  |
| Diarmuid O' Riordáin | Systems Administrator | |
Administrative Staff
| Name | Position | Photo |
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Claudia Cashman Email: c.cashman@ucc.ie Tel: +353 (0)21 490 2210 |
Senior Executive Assistant |  |
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Julie Holland Email: julie.holland@ucc.ie Tel: +353 (0)21 490 3980 |
Executive Assistant |  |
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Sheila Lonergan Email: s.lonergan@ucc.ie Tel: +353 (0)21 490 2128 |
Senior Executive Assistant |  |
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Geraldine McCarthy Email: gerrymccarthy@ucc.ie Tel: +353 (0)21 4298401 |
Senior Executive Assistant | |
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Anne-Marie McSweeney Email: a.mcsweeney@ucc.ie Tel: +353 (0)21 490 2389 |
Senior Executive Assistant |  |
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Mary O'Leary Email: mary.oleary@ucc.ie Tel: +353 (0)21 490 3081
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Senior Executive Assistant |  |
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Niamh O'Sullivan Emal: ni.osullivan@ucc.ie Tel: +353 (0)21 490 2923 |
Executive Assistant |  |
