Trinity Monday 2011 - Fellows and Scholars
Trinity College Dublin was founded as a corporation consisting of the Provost, the Fellows and the Scholars. Scholars are elected annually in various subjects on the result of an examination held in Trinity term. Scholarship or research achievement of a high order is the primary qualification for Fellowship, coupled with evidence of the candidate's contribution to the academic life of the College and an effective record in teaching.
Traditionally, the election of new Fellows and Scholars is announced by the Provost on Trinity Monday (11th April this year) at 10.00 a.m. from the steps of the famous Examination Hall. One Professorial Fellow, Four Honorary Fellows, Fourteen New Fellows and Eighty-Five Scholars were elected this morning.
Professorial Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN SECTION 7 OF THE CHAPTER ON THE FELLOWS IN THE 2010 CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN ELECTED TO PROFESSORIAL FELLOWSHIP:
| Martin Caffrey (Prof) |
Martin Caffrey (Prof)
Martin Caffrey grew up in Dublin and was awarded a first-class honours degree in Agricultural Science at University College Dublin in 1972. With an MSc in Food Science and a PhD in Biochemistry from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, he embarked on a professorial career in the Chemistry Department at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2003, he returned to Ireland to establish a multi-disciplinary programme in Membrane Structural and Functional Biology at the University of Limerick with funding from Science Foundation Ireland and the USA National Institutes of Health. Its mission is to establish the molecular bases for biomembrane assembly and stability and to understand how membranes transform and transmit in health and disease.
In 2009, his research group moved to Dublin when Prof Caffrey received a Personal Chair at Trinity College Dublin with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Biochemistry and Immunology.
Honorary Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN SECTION 11 OF THE CHAPTER ON THE FELLOWS IN THE 2010 CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO HONORARY FELLOWSHIP:
| Thomas Kilroy (Mr) | John Morrill (Prof) | John Nolan (Prof) |
| John Pethica (Prof) |
Thomas Kilroy (Mr)
Thomas Kilroy is a former External Examiner in English and Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College Dublin. He has written sixteen plays for the stage, most of which have been presented at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, of which he is currently a board member. His latest play Christ Deliver Us! was given its first production there in 2010. Mr Kilroy’s novel The Big Chapel was awarded several prizes, including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Heinemann Award for Literature. It was also short-listed for the Booker Prize.
In the 2004 Irish Times Theatre Awards, Mr Kilroy received a Special Tribute Award for his contribution to theatre. In February 2008, he was presented with the PEN Ireland Cross Award for his contribution to literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of Aosdana and Emeritus Professor of Modern English at NUI Galway.
One of the great Irish playwrights, Mr Kilroy has played a key role in shaping Irish theatre. His plays are performed throughout Britain, Europe and North America. While no longer a practicing academic, Mr Kilroy regularly works with the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing.
John Morrill (Prof)
John Morrill has been Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge since 1998 as well as Vice Master of Selwyn College Cambridge since 1994. He was Vice President of the British Academy 2001-09, Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Board of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Trustee, 2001-05, consultant editor for 6,000 seventeenth-century lives in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and contributor to the Dictionary of Irish Biography.
Prof Morrill has written and edited 19 books, is an expert on state formation and on confessional politics, has been a Principal Investigator on the project that has digitized the 1641 Depositions and is General Editor of a new edition for Oxford University Press of the Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell. Prof Morrill has been external examiner at six Irish Universities, examined twelve PhD theses at five of them; and acted as a research consultant for the HEA and at five universities. He is a permanent deacon in the Catholic Diocese of East Anglia.
John Nolan (Prof)
John Nolan was recently appointed CEO and Head of the Steno Diabetes Center in Copenhagen. Prior to moving to Denmark, he was consultant in endocrinology and metabolism and head of the Metabolic Research Unit at St James’s Hospital Dublin. He is a Visiting Professor of Endocrinology at Trinity College Dublin.
Prof Nolan is a graduate of UCD, and completed his fellowship training at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the pathophysiology of Type 2 diabetes. He has published extensively with key discoveries in Diabetes, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, New England Journal of Medicine and Diabetes Care.
Prof Nolan has been a member of the Executive of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and Chair of Postgraduate Education for the EASD, from 2006-2010. He is the recipient of many awards and honours, and is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Edinburgh.
John Pethica (Prof)
After receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. (1978) in Physics at Cambridge, John Pethica became a Staff Scientist at the Brown Boveri Co. Research Centre, Baden Switzerland (1980-82). He also held Oppenheimer and RS Research Fellowships at Cambridge.
In 1987 he was appointed Lecturer at Oxford University and Fellow of St. Cross College, and in 1996, became Professor of Materials Science at Oxford. In 2001 Prof Pethica came to Trinity College as SFI Research Professor, and he was the founding director (2002-05) of CRANN, Ireland’s nanotechnology research centre. He is also currently Chief Scientific Adviser at the National Physical Laboratory, UK, and since 2009 has been the Physical Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society.
Prof Pethica was founder and Director (1985-1998) of Nano Instruments Inc., Tennessee, USA, and has worked with large and small companies worldwide. Elected FRS in 1999, awards include the Rosenhain Medal & Prize of the Institute of Materials (1997), the Hughes Medal, Royal Society (2001) and the Holweck Medal and Prize, French Physical Society (2002).
Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN SECTION 7 OF THE CHAPTER ON THE FELLOWS IN THE 2010 CONSOLIDATED STATUTES,THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO FELLOWSHIP:
Linda Doyle (Prof)
Linda Doyle’s research interest lies in the area of cognitive radio, reconfigurable systems, wireless networks and spectrum policy. Her group has built an international reputation in experimental cognitive radio research. She is also highly committed to interdisciplinary research that crosses the fields of art and technology.
Prof Doyle received her PhD in 1996 from Trinity College Dublin. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering. Prof Doyle is the Director of Ireland’s largest telecommunications research institute, CTVR, which is a distributed centre, headquartered in Trinity College. It brings together over 100 researchers from six different institutions to work on industry-informed research problems in optical and wireless networks. Through her leadership, the centre has developed a strong vision based on evolvable and sustainable communication networks.
Prof Doyle is very involved in challenging current, restrictive, telecommunications regulatory policy to open up the way for cognitive radio through frequent participation in regulatory boards at national and EU level.
Tatiana Perova (Dr)
Tatiana Perova is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering. She graduated with a Masters Degree in Physics from Tajik State University, USSR in 1972. Her PhD in Molecular Physics, Optics and Mathematical Sciences was awarded by Zhdanov Leningrad State University in 1979.
Dr Perova joined the staff of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Trinity College initially as a Research Fellow in 1995, and was Research Director of the Microelectronic Technology Group (MTG) since 2000. In 2007, Dr Perova became Director of the MTG. Her research is currently focused on the design, fabrication and characterisation of one and two-dimensional photonic crystals, based on silicon.
Dr Perova has published over 140 scientific papers, principally in high impact-factor, peer-reviewed journals, and she maintains a large network of collaborations with numerous scientists worldwide. Dr Perova has generated ~1.8 million euro in research income for College from various agencies, including SFI, Enterprise Ireland and IRCSET.
Crawford Gribben (Dr)
Crawford Gribben is Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Print Culture in the School of English. Before taking up this position, he graduated from the University of Strathclyde (BA 1995; PhD 1999) and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies at Trinity College Dublin (2000-2004) and a lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester (2004-2007).
Dr Gribben’s principal research interests focus on the literary cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism. He is the author of The Puritan Millennium: Literature and Theology, 1550-1682 (2000), God’s Irishmen: Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland (2007), Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America (2009) and Evangelical Millennialism in the trans-Atlantic World, 1500-2000 (2011). Dr Gribben is the editor of 5 collections of essays and the author of over 40 articles. He is the Trinity Director of Ireland’s first multi-institutional and inter-disciplinary structured PhD programme, “Texts, Contexts, Cultures”.
Mario Fares-Riaño (Dr)
Mario Fares-Riaño is a Lecturer in the Department of Genetics in TCD. He graduated in Biology (1997) from the University of Valencia in his home country, Spain. After culminating a PhD on the molecular basis of the bacterial symbiosis with insects, he joined the Department of Genetics in Trinity College as a post-doctoral researcher in Bioinformatics.
Dr Fares- Riaño joined the Department of Biology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth in 2003 as permanent Lecturer. In 2004, he was awarded the President of Ireland Young Researcher Award from Science Foundation Ireland. Since 2004, Dr Fares has submerged himself in the investigation of the evolutionary and molecular basis underlying the emergence of ecological adaptations in bacteria and biological complexity, publishing more than 40 high-impact, international, peer-reviewed scientific articles.
In 2006, Dr Fares-Riaño secured a permanent lectureship in the Department of Genetics in TCD, where he has since been developing his research.
Micheál Ó Siochrú (Dr)
Micheál Ó Siochrú is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Histories and Humanities. A Trinity Scholar (1987), he obtained his PhD in 1997, followed, after a number of years working outside of academia, by appointments to the University of Aberdeen in 2004 and Trinity College Dublin in 2007.
He is the author of numerous books and articles on seventeenth-century Ireland, including most recently God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the conquest of Ireland (Faber & Faber). He also co-scripted and presented the award-winning documentary for RTÉ on Oliver Cromwell in Ireland.
A Principal Investigator on the IRCHSS/AHRC-funded 1641 Depositions project, Dr Ó Siochrú is currently working with colleagues in History and Computer Science on its next phase, the FP7-funded project CULTURA, as part of an international consortium including, among others, the Universities of Sofia and Padua, as well as IBM. Future publications include a new four-volume edition of Oliver Cromwell’s letters and papers for Oxford University Press.
Catherine Donnelly (Dr)
Catherine Donnelly was appointed Lecturer in Law in the Law School of Trinity College Dublin in 2007. She has an LL.B. from Trinity, a B.C.L. and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Her core areas of interest are Administrative Law, European Union Law, Human Rights and Comparative Public Law.
Dr Donnelly’s doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Delegation of Governmental Power to Private Parties: A Comparative Perspective’ was published by Oxford University Press. She is an editor of an Administrative Law text, De Smith’s Judicial Review (Sweet and Maxwell), and a contributor to A Lester, D Pannick and J Herberg, Human Rights: Law and Practice (Butterworths LexisNexis).
Dr Donnelly was a tenured Tutorial Fellow of Wadham College and University Lecturer at the University of Oxford. She practised as a litigation attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York from 1999 to 2001. She is also a barrister of King’s Inns, Dublin and Gray’s Inn, London.
Juliette Hussey (Dr)
Juliette Hussey is currently Senior Lecturer in the discipline of Physiotherapy, School of Medicine after previously working in clinical positions in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London.
Her previous research has focused on the relationship between physical activity, fitness and body composition in children. The main focus of her current research is the study of physiological responses to exercise interventions in clinical cohorts with chronic disease with a particular emphasis on oncology and cardiovascular disease. The broad aim of this research is to optimize therapeutic responses to exercise interventions.
Currently head of the Discipline of Physiotherapy, Dr Hussey has been at the forefront of undergraduate and postgraduate educational developments. She has successfully guided curricular changes at undergraduate level and has led and continues to lead in the development of multidisciplinary postgraduate taught courses.
Jane Stout (Dr)
Jane Stout is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences. Jane did her BSc in Environmental Sciences (1995) and PhD in Ecology (1999) both at the University of Southampton, UK. Her PhD investigated the foraging ecology of bumblebees, focusing on intrinsic and extrinsic influences on behaviour, and how behaviour influenced plant reproductive success.
Dr Stout came to Trinity as an Enterprise Ireland Post-doctoral Fellow in 2001 to research the role of native pollinators in the spread of invasive plants, and was appointed a Broad Curriculum Lecturer in 2003 and Lecturer in Botany in 2007. Dr Stout continues to use plant-pollinator interactions as a model system, and her research focuses on investigating anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity and the delivery of ecosystem services. She is the co-ordinator of the national EPA-sponsored SIMBIOSYS project which is investigating sectoral impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services, including quantifying impacts of energy crops, road landscaping and aquaculture on Irish ecosystems.
Mary McCarron (Prof)
Mary McCarron is Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Trinity College Dublin, and an internationally recognised researcher on quality of life and care in the areas of intellectual disability, ageing, chronic illness, dementia, and palliative care.
She leads research teams for the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, the evaluation of palliative care provision throughout Ireland and the experiences of family carers. She is also active in the design of interventions and in the translation of evidence based practices for day-to-day use in practice settings. In the international aspects of this work, Prof McCarron holds a research assistant professorship at the Centre for Excellence in Ageing & Community Wellness at the University at Albany, New York.
She is a registered nurse in intellectual disability (RNID) and a registered general nurse (RGN) and has held a number of senior nursing positions. Prof McCarron received her PhD from Trinity College Dublin and her Bachelor’s degree in nursing from Dublin City University.
Andrew Harkin (Dr)
Andrew Harkin joined the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2005 where he is currently a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology. He is a graduate of NUI Galway (BSc 1994; PhD 1998), and prior to joining Trinity College held a lecturing post in the School of Pharmacy in University College Cork.
Dr Harkin is a Principal Investigator in Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience where his research is focused on the neuropharmacology of antidepressant drugs, and the adverse effects of drugs of abuse. To date, Dr Harkin’s research has resulted in 48 published papers in international journals and over 70 minor publications as conference abstracts. In addition to his research activities, Dr Harkin has served as Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences since 2008.
Mary Meegan (Prof)
Mary Meegan was appointed Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2007. She received her BSc and PhD degrees in chemistry from University College Dublin and subsequently carried out postdoctoral research in the areas of natural product synthesis and biosynthesis at the University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge and in the Chemistry Department, University College Dublin.
Prof Meegan's research interests are focussed on the areas of design and synthesis of new anticancer drugs resulting in the discovery of novel bioactive molecules, such as nuclear receptor antagonists, tubulin targeting agents and multidrug resistance modulators. Since joining the School of Pharmacy in 1979, Prof Meegan has published over 80 papers in the field of pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry.
Eric Finch (Dr)
Eric Finch is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics. His research interests lie in environmental radioactivity, the detection of fast nuclear fission fragments, and the atomic spectroscopy of highly ionised heavy ions. He set up a hyperpure germanium gamma-ray detection system in College, resulting in the first survey of natural radioactivity in building materials used in Ireland. Dr Finch established collaborations with laboratories at accelerators and nuclear reactors in the U.K., France, Belgium and Germany. With C.F.G. Delaney, Fellow Emeritus, he co-authored Radiation Detectors, published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Dr Finch obtained his primary and doctoral degrees from Oxford University (Keble College). After post-doctoral work in Durham University he became, in 1972, the last person appointed to Trinity by the Physics Nobel Laureate, E.T.S. Walton, before his retirement. A Fellow of the Institute of Physics and former College Tutor and Radiological Protection Officer, Dr Finch was the first person to receive the Provost’s Lifetime Achievement Teaching Award.
Martin Hegner (Prof)
Martin Hegner is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin and Principal Investigator at the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) since 2007.
He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland with an MSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1989) and a PhD in Biological Scanning Probe Microscopy (1994). His postdoctoral research in the US (‘96 –‘99) was with University of Oregon & UC Berkeley. While at the University of Basel (2001), Prof Hegner’s research focused on habilitation in the field of experimental Physics. He was also Principal Investigator (1999-2007) in the field of Nanobiotechnology at the newly founded National Competence Center for Nanoscale Science. His scientific interests focus on interdisciplinary research in the fields of single molecule manipulation, biophysics, bio-diagnostics and development and application of biological sensing devices.
Prof Hegner’s current interests are centred on biological nanomechanics, which is explored firstly with single bio-molecule manipulation techniques. His team at Trinity are also developing novel cantilever array devices to enable label free diagnostics.
Gail McElroy (Dr)
Gail McElroy is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. Dr McElroy’s research interests are in the field of comparative politics, with a particular focus on legislative and party politics and political institutions. Her recent publications and research projects examine the nature of party competition in the European Parliament, the role of committees in legislative organization and the quality of citizen representation in the European Union.
Dr McElroy is also actively involved in the Irish National Election and Candidate Studies and recent published work in this area explores the continued under-representation of women in Irish politics.
Dr McElroy completed her primary degree in History and Political Science at Trinity and is also a graduate of the London School of Economics (MSc). Her PhD is from the University of Rochester.
Scholarship
THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO SCHOLARSHIP 2011:
| Department | Name |
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| Chemistry with Molecular Modelling | Douglas James Temple | |
| Children's and General Nursing (B.Sc.) | Shauna Delaney | |
| Computer Science, Linguistics & a language | Stephen David Shaw | |
| Dental Science | Andrew Charles Bartram Ronan O'Leary |
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| Earth Sciences | Gina Kelly Daniel Quinn |
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| Economic and Social Studies | Lorcan George Clarke Clare Dunne Gavin Gilhawley Tom Kelly Emmet Kiberd Tony O'Connor Andrew Winterbotham |
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| Engineering | Ian Beatty-Orr Gary Blackburn Oisin Brogan Mark William Culleton Michael Francis Cullinan Ronan Fahey Michael Gibbons Kevin Haughan Andrew Donald McKay Anish Raghavan Ciaran Tuohy |
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| English Studies | Natasha Claire Calder Sally Rooney |
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| European Studies | Louise Heneghan Rebecca Smyth |
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| History and Political Science | Neil Warner | |
| Irish Studies | Caitlin Emira Saoirse Nic Iomhair | |
| Law | Michael Judge Colm Kelly Matthew Langton |
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| Law and Business | Jennifer Duffy | |
| Law and French | Ferenc Jari | |
| Law and Political Science | Nicola Griffin | |
| Mathematics | Colman Humphrey Jack Kelly |
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| Medicine (5-year) | Jasdeep Badwal Niall Cosgrave Renuka Rasmani Durganaudu Eric Hirsch Conor Lavelle Andrew Graham Lockhart Ian John McGurgan Conor John O'Donovan Clare Quigley Liam Townsend |
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| Midwifery (B.Sc.) | Sophie Carolyn Clare | |
| Music | Cormac Bennett Alex Louis Ryan |
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| Music Education (B.Ed.) | Lynsey Hannah Callaghan | |
| Natural Sciences | Oana Maria Deac Francis Samuel Duffy Rebecca Feeney-Barry Aoibheann Gaughran Daragh Mullarkey Andrea Waitz Robert James Walsh Glyn Williams |
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| Nursing (B.Sc.) | Laura Holly Catherina Bernadette Long Niamh Rosemary Murphy |
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| Occupational Therapy | Margaret Eleanor Dee | |
| Pharmacy | Brian John McNamara Juliette Anne O'Connell |
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| Philosophy, Political Science, Economics & Sociology | Ryan Kenny Cara Maria Sanquest |
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| Physiotherapy | Adam McDermott | |
| Psychology | Eric Anthony Lacey Stephen Landers |
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| Social Studies | Julie O'Shea | |
| Sociology & Social Policy | Gillian Smith | |
| Theoretical Physics | Gavin Cheung David-Alexander Robinson |
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| Two Subject Moderatorship | Modern Irish and Religions & Theology | Rachael Atkinson |
| Economics & Psychology | Debbie Blair | |
| Modern Irish & Music | Eleanor Mai Jones-McAuley | |
| History & Latin A | Charlie Kerrigan | |
| Philosophy & Psychology | Orla McCallion | |
| English and History of Art & Architecture | David Luke Naessens | |
| German & Modern Irish | Deirdre Ní Cheallacháin | |
| Modern Irish & Spanish | Eoghan Padraig O'Ceannabhain | |
| English & Music | Eoghan Quinn | |