Luke Drury

Luke Drury was born in Dublin in 1953. He studied experimental physics and pure mathematics at Trinity College Dublin before undertaking a PhD in Astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, England. He subsequently worked at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany before returning to Dublin in 1986 to head up the Astrophysics section of the School of Cosmic Physics in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
Luke Drury was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1995 and President on 16th March 2011. He is the 54th President of the Academy since it was established in 1785.

 

Tom Brazil

Thomas J. Brazil received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from University College Dublin in 1973, and was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering by the National University of Ireland in 1977.
He subsequently worked on microwave sub-system development at Plessey Research (Caswell) UK, before returning to UCD in 1980. He now holds the Chair of Electronic Engineering at UCD and is also Head Electronic Engineering. His research interests are in the fields of non-linear modelling and characterisation techniques at the device, circuit and system level. He also has interests in non-linear simulation algorithms and several areas of microwave sub-system design and applications. He has published widely in the international scientific literature in these fields.
Professor Brazil is Head of the Microwave Research Group in UCD, and he is one of the elected Professors on the University’s Governing Authority. He is involved in a wide range of international technical bodies and scientific conference committees, including those sponsored by the IEEE and the European Microwave Association. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003 and elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004. In 2008 he was elected as Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy.

 

Andrew Carpenter

Andrew Carpenter is Emeritus Professor of English at University College Dublin where he taught for nearly 40 years and served as Dean of Arts and Director of Development. Otherwise he has devoted himself to researching the writing – particularly the poetry – of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. He has written extensively on the period and edited many texts. His best known publications are two anthologies Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland (2003) and Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland (1998). He was founding chairman of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and founding editor of Eighteenth-Century Ireland.

 

Celia Holland

Professor Celia Holland studied Zoology at Trinity College before undertaking a PhD in Experimental Parasitology at Cambridge University and a Postdoctoral research fellowship at Cornell University.

Professor Holland is currently Associate Professor in Zoology at Trinity College where she was awarded fellowship in 1995. Her research interests focus upon the epidemiology of human helminth infections.

Professor Holland is an Invited Expert on the WHO Advisory Panel on Parasitic Diseases and currently Secretary General of the European Federation of Parasitology. Professor Holland is an Associate Editor of the Cambridge journal Parasitology. She was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004.

Link to Professor Holland’s publications: http://www.tcd.ie/Zoology/research/research/parasitology/index.php

 

James Lunney

James G. Lunney is Associate Professor of Physics and Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. His current research interests are in high power laser-matter interactions and plasma physics, with particular emphasis on pulsed laser ablation and deposition of solid and nanoparticle materials for research. He also does research on applications of conical refraction, which is a curious optical effect discovered in Dublin in 1832. Previously he has work on laser thermonuclear fusion and X-ray laser research. He served as Head of the School of Physics (2005 - 2008). He is author of over 160 scientific papers and Fellow of Institute of Physics.
 

Kenneth Bell

Professor Emeritus Kenneth Lloyd Bell. Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) at Queen’s University Belfast (2001-2006); Head of School of Mathematics and Physics (1998-2001). Research interests were in the field of theoretical atomic physics with particular interest in electron or photon-atom/ion collisions; photodetachment of negative ions; transition probabilities; and free-free transitions of negative ions. Most of the data calculated are relevant to astrophysical application, in particular to planetary nebulae and the sun.

186 publications in refereed journals. Fellow of the Institute of Physics (elected 1989); Royal Astronomical Society (elected 1991); American Physical Society (elected 1997); Member of the Royal Irish Academy (elected 2001).

Séamus Mac Mathúna

Séamus Mac Mathúna is Professor of Irish and Celtic Studies and former Director of the Celtic Studies Research Institute, University of Ulster. He did postgraduate work in Indo-European and linguistics at Zürich and Reykjavik and lectured subsequently at Galway and Uppsala. Research interests include Irish philology, linguistics and lexicography, and medieval voyage literature, on which topics he has written extensively. Author or editor of numerous books and articles, he is President of Societas Celto-Slavica, editor of Studia Celto-Slavica, and consultant editor of Studia Celtica Upsaliensia. Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, he is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

 

Attracta Ingram

Attracta Ingram is Professor Emeritus in University College Dublin. She has published extensively in political and social theory, particularly on the philosophy of rights, social justice, pluralism, state and nation, constitutional patriotism, and cosmopolitanism. She was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in March 2008. She was a founder and Board member of the European InterUniversity Centre for human rights and democratization (1997-2010). She has held a Jean Monnet Research fellowship in the EUI, as well as visiting fellowships in St. Andrews, Harvard, Columbia, and Berkeley.

 

Eugene Kennedy

Professor Kennedy is Professor Emeritus and former Vice-President for Research at Dublin City University. He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 1987 and member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004. He brought laser-based research at DCU to international prominence through applications of laser-generated plasmas to problems in atomic physics, laser-plasma source development and plasma diagnostics. He has coordinated major international EU research networks and been an invited researcher at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (Wash. DC), HASYLAB and FLASH (DESY Hamburg), LURE (Paris) and the Advanced Light Source (University of California at Berkeley).

 

James McGuire

Joint Editor, Dictionary of Irish Biography (9 vols and online, Cambridge University Press), he is Adjunct Professor in the UCD School of History and Archives and Chairman of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. Joint Editor of Irish Historical Studies (1987–92), President of the Irish Historical Society (1994–5), President of the Irish Legal History Society (2006–9), he was Overseas Visiting Scholar, St John's College, Cambridge (1997). Awarded the Gold Medal of the Irish Legal History Society (2010), he was conferred D.Litt. (hon.) by the NUI (2011). His publications are listed in James Kelly et al. (ed.), People, politics and power (2009).

 

Ray Bates

J. Ray Bates is Adjunct Professor of Meteorology at UCD. He was formerly Professor of Meteorology at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen and a Senior Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre. His current research interests are in the theory and modeling of the global climate. He is particularly interested in climate stability and climate sensitivity to CO_2 increase. He is also interested in stratosphere-troposphere dynamical interaction. Prof. Bates is a Member of the Academia Europaea. He was awarded the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal of the European Geosciences Union in April 2009. (http://www.raybates.net)

 

Seán Dineen

Emeritus Professor (Mathematics), University College Dublin.

Academic positions previously held at The University of Maryland (Baltimore), The Johns Hopkins University, IMPA (Rio de Janeiro), DIAS (Dublin)

Member, Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, F\'{i}sicas y Naturales, Madrid.
Former President Irish Mathematical Society.
Member of Governing Authority, UCD, 2005-2009.
Research Interests: Functional Analysis, Complex Analysis,
Differential Geometry, Probability Theory, Mathematical Education.

Authored over one hundred research articles. Wrote six books
including:

• The Schwarz Lemma, Oxford, 1989.
• Complex Analysis on Infinite Dimensional Spaces, Springer,
• 1999.
• Probability Theory in Finance--A Mathematical Guide to the
• Black-Scholes Formula, AMS, 2005.

Link: http://mathsci.ucd.ie/people/dineen_s

 

Seán Ó Coileáin

Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish at University College Cork. Chairman of the Folklore of Ireland Council. Formerly Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University.

Following undergraduate and postgraduate studies at UCC, he was awarded the Travelling Studentship of the National University of Ireland in 1967, choosing to study at Harvard, where he was greatly influenced by the work of Professor John V. Kelleher in Irish history and literature and of Professor Albert B. Lord in oral theory and composition. Their teaching informs much of his own subsequent writings in the area of Irish literature, from the Guaire cycle (the subject of his Harvard Ph.D.) to Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire. An influence of a different kind, which also grew into personal friendship, was that of Seán Ó Ríordáin; his literary biography of Ó Riordáin was awarded the literary prize of the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1984. Other scholarly interests include the literature of the Great Blasket, his work on which includes a new edition of An tOileánach (Cló Talbóid, 2001).

A long-time member of the Senate of the National University, he takes an active interest in Irish-language matters and is Chairman of Gaelachas Teoranta which overseas the operations of Coláiste an Phiarsaigh and Scoil na nÓg in Glanmire, County Cork.

Anthony Francis Hegarty

Professor emeritus of Organic Chemistry at University College Dublin. Research in Synthesis and Organic Reaction Mechanisms. Many of the systems studied are of biological and medicinal interest. http://www.ucd.ie/chem/staff/