Trinity Monday 2005 - 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 (16th May this year) at 10.00 a.m. from the steps of the famous Examination Hall. Eleven Professorial Fellows, one Honorary Fellow, thirteen New Fellows and eighty New Scholars were elected this morning.
A photo of the Scholars and Fellows 2005 may be viewed at the Trinity Photographic Centre website. If you wish to order a copy, please contact the College Photographer, Brendan Dempsey. Email: bdempsey@tcd.ie. Tel: 608 1343.
Professorial Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 7 OF THE STATUTES,
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO PROFESSORIAL FELLOWSHIP.
Cecily Marion Begley
Professor of Nursing and Midwifery (2004)
Professor Begley has research interests in the areas of nursing and midwifery education, physiological childbirth and women-centred care. She was responsible for the Dublin trial of third stage management and for a nation-wide study of student midwives' experiences during their two-year pre-registration education period , which are well-recognised internationally . The evaluation of the pilot three-year 'direct entry' midwifery programme, funded by the Department of Health and Children, was also completed under her direction. She has published widely in international journals and is a member of the International Confederation of Midwives' Research Advisory Network . Prof Begley has been successful in obtaining almost 2m euro in research funding in the last six years from the Health Research Board, the Nursing and Midwifery Planning and Development Unit, Western Health Board and the North-Eastern Health Board/HSE- NE Area. She is at present leading the teams responsible for the measurement of Public Health Nurses' workload in the Health Service Executive, Western Area and the evaluation of the implementation of pilot midwifery-led units in the Health Service Executive, North-Eastern Area.
Nigel John Biggar
Professor of Theology (1980)
Nigel Biggar came to Trinity in January 2004 from a chair at the University Leeds, which he had held since 1999. Before that he was Fellow and Chaplain of Oriel College, Oxford for nine years. He read Modern History at Oxford, and went on to pursue postgraduate studies in theology and religious studies in Canada and the U.S. Broadly speaking, his field of research lies in the relationship between religious belief and moral life, although he has also worked at the more casuistical end of ethics. Among his recent publications are two edited collections--"The Revival of Natural Law" (2000) and "Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict" (2001, 2003)--and a monograph entitled "Aiming to Kill: the Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia" (2004). Current work includes co-editing a collection on "Religious Voices in Public Places", organising a conference on "The Christian Foundations of Liberal Society", and preparing to write a book on problems in the doctrine of just war. Professor Biggar sits on the ethics committee of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and he is currently President of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics in the UK.
Kevin Cristopher Paul Conlon
Professor of Surgery (2001)
Kevin Conlon is the Professor of Surgery based at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital Dublin, Incorporating the National Children's Hospital and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences. He is a surgical oncologist with a special interest in upper gastrointestinal cancer particularly gastric and pancreatic malignancies. He also has an interest in undergraduate teaching and curricular development. He is internationally recognised and widely published in the field of surgical oncology. Currently, he is a co-editor of the Annals of Surgical Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology and the World Journal of Surgical Oncology. He is a member of many cooperative groups and holds a number of grants investigating the molecular basis of pancreatic cancer. Prior to joining TCD he was the Associate Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Director of the Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Programme at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer, New York.
Adrian Constantin
Erasmus Smith's Chair of Mathematics (1762)
Professor Constantin came to Trinity College in September 2004. His prior position was a Chair of Mathematics at Lund University (Sweden) where he was appointed in 1999. Professor Constantin's research interests lie in the general field of nonlinear partial differential equations, the current focus being on aspects of wave motion (water waves, solitons). Professor Constantin was elected in 2001 to the Royal Physiographical Society (Sweden). He received the "B. Sciarra" prize 1993/1994 of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy) and the "G.Gustafsson" prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2005.
Johnnie Gratton
Charles Edward Murray Normand
Edward Kennedy Professor of Health Policy and Management (2002)
Prior to taking up his position at Trinity Charles was for thirteen years Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has worked also at the universities in Belfast, York and Stirling. He was a civil servant in Northern Ireland for four years and has worked in hospital management. His background is in economics and he is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK).
Much of his work is on the evaluation of treatments and services, with a particular interest on neonatal technologies, heart disease and the major cancers. His has also worked on finance and delivery of health services and health care human resources. He has a particular interest in the consequences of population ageing on health and social care. He has carried out advisory work and research on health care reform in the new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, in Bangladesh and in South Africa.
He currently chairs the steering committee of the WHO European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy and is on the board of St James's Hospital.
Jane Helen Ohlmeyer
Erasmus Smith Professor of Modern History (1762)
Dr Jane Ohlmeyer's books include Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms. The career of Randal MacDonnell, marquis of Antrim, 1609-1683 (Cambridge, 1993; reprint Dublin, 2001); Ireland from Independence to Occupation, 1641-1660 (editor, Cambridge, 1995); and Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland (editor, Cambridge, 2000). She has also co-edited The Civil Wars. A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland 1638-1660 (with John Kenyon, Oxford, 1998), The Irish Statute Staple Books, 1596-1687 (with Eamonn Ó Ciardha, Dublin, 1998), The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century: Awkward Neighbours (with Allan Macinnes, Dublin, 2002) and British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland (with Ciaran Brady, Cambridge, 2005). Professor Ohlmeyer has written numerous articles for anthologies and scholarly journals (including Historical Journal and American Historical Review ). Her current research includes a collaborative study (with Professor Steven Zwicker, Washington University, St. Louis) on how Irish and British history might engage more fruitfully with literary studies. This 'holistic', inclusive and interdisciplinary approach to the histories of the Stuart kingdoms and their dominions is also reflected in her next monograph, on the Irish peerage in the seventeenth century. She teaches courses on early modern Ireland, Britain and Europe and supervises research in early modern Irish and British history, especially on topics (political, military, social, and cultural) relating to seventeenth-century Ireland and comparative work on 'three kingdoms' history in the early modern period.
John James O'Leary
Colm Antoine O'Moráin
Samson Shatashvili
University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847)
Director, Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Shatashvili also holds the prestigious Louis Michel Chair at IHES, worlds leading mathematics centre near Paris. He is recipient of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award, US NSF CAREER award (formerly called Presidential Young Investigator), US DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator award, etc. Professor Shatashvili was educated at Steklov Mathematics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, where he was until 1990. In 1990 he moved to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and later to Yale before joining Trinity in summer 2002.
Professor Shatashvili's research interests can be broadly described as Mathematical Physics. In St. Petersburg he worked on quantum gauge theory, group cohomology, symplectic geometry, representation theory and 2d conformal field theory. He is a co-inventor of Mickelson-Faddeev-Shatashvili cocycle and Faddeev-Shatashvili quantization. During his Princeton years he developed Witten-Shatashvili open string field theory. At Yale he participated in collaboration which led to the physical derivation of generalised Donaldson-Witten invariants, introduced Shatashvili-Vafa algebra for the manifolds of exceptional holonomy and has been developing with A. Gerasimov the background independent methods in string theory, the work he continues at present.
Leo Francis Stassen
Honorary Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 9 OF THE STATUTES,
| DAVIS COAKLEY |
HAS BEEN ELECTED TO HONORARY FELLOWSHIP.
Professor Davis Coakley
MD, FRCPI, FRCP Lond., FRCP Edin.
Davis Coakley graduated in medicine from University College, Cork in 1971. After postgraduate training in Cork, Dublin and Cardiff, he was appointed senior lecturer in geriatric medicine in the University of Manchester. In 1979 he was appointed consultant physician in St. James's Hospital and senior lecturer in geriatric medicine in Trinity College Dublin. He was director of postgraduate education, Trinity College Dublin (1984-1990); founder and director of the Mercer's Institute for Research on Ageing (1998-2003); Dun's librarian, Royal College of Physician of Ireland (1991-1996); Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, TCD (1993-1999). He was appointed to a personal chair in medical gerontology (1996); RSL visiting professor in Australia (1997); head of the newly established Department of Medical Gerontology (1999). He was awarded the Charles University Prague 650 Jubilee Medal in 1998 and the President's Medal, British Geriatric Society in 2004. He has published over 150 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has written or edited eighteen books on medical science and on historical and literary subjects. These include "Establishing a Geriatric Service", "Minute Eye Movement and Brain Stem Function", "The Anatomy Lesson; Art and Medicine", "Irish Masters of Medicine" and "The Importance of Being Irish; Oscar Wilde".
Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 6 OF THE STATUTES,
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO FELLOWSHIP.
Ivana Catherine Bacik
Ivana Bacik, LL.B., LL.M. (Lond), B.L., is Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at the Law School, Trinity College Dublin, and is also a practising barrister. She teaches courses in Criminal Law, Criminology, and Feminist Theory and Law at Trinity. Among her publications are: Gender InJustice: Feminising the Legal Professions? (2004, with Cathryn Costello and Eileen Drew); Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the Twenty-First Century (O'Brien Press, 2004); and Towards a Culture of Human Rights in Ireland (with Stephen Livingstone; Cork University Press, 2001). She was co-editor (with Michael O'Connell) of Crime and Poverty in Ireland (Round Hall, 1998), and co-ordinated an EU-funded study on rape law in different European jurisdictions (1998). She has contributed chapters on sentencing practice and on women and criminal law to the major Irish criminological text, O'Mahony (ed), Criminal Justice in Ireland (IPA, 2002) was Editor of the Irish Criminal Law Journal from 1997-2003 and has written on human rights and constitutional law, criminal law and criminology.
Jonathan Nesbit Coleman
Jonathan Coleman has been a lecturer in Physics at Trinity College Dublin since 2001. He graduated with First Class Honours and a gold medal in Physics in 1995 and completed a PhD in Physics in TCD in 1999 . Dr Coleman's main area of research is the study of Carbon nanotubes. These nanoscale cylinders, just a millionth of a millimetre wide but up to millimetres in length are more conductive than copper and many times stronger than steel. To harness these properties, Coleman's work focuses on mixing nanotubes with plastics to create new, functional composite materials. This work has resulted in electrically conductive plastics and lightweight composites with the strength of steel. One highlight of this work was the fabrication of polymer-nanotube fibres as strong as the strongest steel and over a hundred times tougher than Kevlar. This work was published in Nature in 2003 and received global publicity. In total Dr Coleman has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and one patent. Recently Dr Coleman and co-workers received over a million dollars from the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program to study interactions between nanotubes and biomolecules.
David Coghlan
Dr David Coghlan is a member of the School of Business Studies, where he teaches organisation development and action research. His research interests focus on action research, particularly practitioner research, doing action research in one's own organisation and he has published internationally on these subjects. He is on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science , Action Research , Systemic Practice and Action Research and OD Practitioner. Recent books include: Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization (with Teresa Brannick), second edition, Sage 2005, Managers Learning in Action (co-edited with T. Dromgoole, P. Joynt, & P. Sorensen), Routledge 2004. Changing Healthcare Organisations (with Eilish Mc Auliffe) Blackhall 2003.
Gwyneth Jane Farrar
Dr Jane Farrar is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Genetics. Her primary research interests have included the elucidation of the molecular pathogenesis of inherited disorders such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) involving visual dysfunction and osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a brittle bone disease. More recently the exploration of potential therapeutic approaches for these conditions has been the focus of her research. The research has lead to the identification of some of the first genes implicated in RP, has provided powerful molecular tools to further explore disease processes and has enabled the development of innovative therapeutic strategies for dominant forms of disorders such as RP and OI. The programmes of research Dr Farrar is pursuing have been supported by funding from a variety of agencies and have lead to publications in leading international journals and the development of a significant patent portfolio.
Iouri Gounko
Dr. Iouri Gounko is a Lecturer in the Chemistry Department. Dr. Gounko's work combines several research areas such as Metallorganic Chemistry, Materials Science and Nanotechnology. His research focuses on the development of new nanocomposites with potential applications in the fields of medicine, information technology and ultra-strong materials fabrication. Dr. Gounko has been successful in obtaining funding from HEA, Enterprise Ireland and SFI. He has consistently published in leading international journals in his area of research. Dr. Gounko has established successful interdisciplinary research collaboration with the Physics, Clinical Medicine and Electronic Engineering Departments in Trinity College as well as international collaborations with leading research groups in Germany, UK and Sweden.
Trevor Roland Hodkinson
Dr Trevor Hodkinson is a Lecturer in Botany and heads the Molecular Laboratory and DNA Bank. He came to Trinity from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, England in 1997 after having completed his PhD from the University of Birmingham, England (1994). His research achievements are in the field of plant molecular systematics and taxonomy. He has advanced systematic knowledge of grasses including bamboos and his work has, among other things, resulted in the naming of grass species/genera and made contributions to the Flora of Thailand project. His work has also established the origins of a newly exploited biomass crop, Miscanthus , and devised systems of classification for other genera. Recently he has examined higher-level grass phylogenetics and has produced some of the most comprehensive phylogenetic trees for the family. These trees are being used for classification and used to test various macro-evolutionary hypotheses such as the origins of C 4 photosynthesis and co-evolution of grasses with herbivores. He has also worked extensively on tree genetics and biotechnology, especially of oak and ash.
Robert Alan Moore
Alan Moore is a graduate of Queen's University, Belfast. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and has been Head of Department since 2003. Alan's doctoral research focussed on the fabrication of microwave devices and the early work in TCD shifted to a study of resonant inductive-coupled plasma etching techniques. This involved extensive collaboration with EU universities and industry. In parallel with this he began collaborative research on low-temperature crystallisation of amorphous-silicon films for use in the fabrication of thin-film transistors. His research then modified to a study of defects in silicon and this work continued for a number of years. In 1996, with Intel funding, he set up a completely new research area on the formation of ultra-shallow boron-doped junctions, with application in LDD (Low-Doped Drain) devices, using a doped glass and rapid thermal processing (RTP). This novel technique minimised the thermal budget and created ultra-shallow junctions which satisfied the 1997 NTRS (National Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors) projections for 0.1 μm technology in 2006.
In 2002 Alan moved to a new lab in the SNIAM building and, with the purchase of a micro-Raman spectrometer, his research on semiconductor materials entered a new dynamic phase with a corresponding increase in publication output. Most recently his collaborative work with University of Stuttgart has been devoted to composition and stress analysis in thin SiGe buffer layers and tensile-strained Si channels. SiGe layers with high Ge content, high degree of relaxation and low defect density are in great demand both for modern MOSFET structures with tensile-strained Si channels and for a range of microelectronic and optoelectronic devices.
Fiona Newell
Fiona Newell is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology and is a member of the Institute of Neuroscience. She was awarded her PhD on high-level perception from the University of Durham, UK. Her major research interest is in multisensory integration. To date, Fiona Newell's research has proceeded along two main approaches within a Cognitive Neuroscience perspective. The first involves an investigation of the behavioural principles of higher-order perception in humans, with particular reference to face, object and scene recognition in the visual, auditory and tactile modalities. The second approach to her research is based on neuroimaging investigations of the cortical processing underlying high-level multisensory perception. Her research also involves an investigation of the effect of various conditions on perception such as sensory deprivation and synaesthesia.
David Leslie Parris
David Parris is Senior Lecturer in French. His research has centred on the literatures of Switzerland (especially C. F. Ramuz) and Quebec, and latterly on Jewish literature in French and more generally on the 'margins' in literature. He was the first to create courses in these subject areas, beginning with the literature of Quebec in the mid-seventies, and subsequently was active in the setting up of subject associations. He is also interested in the interaction of literature and language, and in translation. He is an Officier de l'ordre des Palmes académiques, and a member of the Ordre des Francophones d'Amérique.
Vasilis Politis
Dr Politis specializes in Ancient Philosophy, in particular Plato and Aristotle. He has recently published a book on Aristotle's Metaphysics, and one on Plato's theory of ideas. He has also published a number of articles on Plato, Aristotle, Kant and moral philosophy. Currently he is working on a number of papers, and a book, on the topic of the place of aporia (puzzlement, problems) in the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle.
Isabal Rozas
Dr. Isabel Rozas was awarded her PhD from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain). She has been research active in the field of Medicinal Chemistry since then and has concentrated on the design and synthesis of new compounds with potential activity in such diverse areas as herbicides to analgesics. During the last fifteen years, she has extended her interest in the theoretical study of the properties of drugs and their interactions by means of density functional theory and Hartree-Fock methods. Current research covers two different areas. The first involves the modelling of the receptors, design, synthesis and biological study of I2-Imidazoline binding site ligands and a 2-adrenoceptors agonists as analgesics; a 2-adrenoceptors antagonists as antidepressants; and a 1A-adrenoceptors antagonists for the treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. The other area of interest is the theoretical study of unusual hydrogen bonds. This weak interaction is one of the most important in biological systems and there is experimental and theoretical evidence that other than classical systems can establish hydrogen bonds. Dr Rozas has published over 80 articles in leading international journals and is the Director of the Medicinal Chemistry course.
Richard Andrew Somerville
Dr Somerville is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and is a graduate of Dublin University. Earlier in his career his research was largely applied, and focused on the Irish economy. Recently, his areas of interest have included country risk, finance, the measurement of cost-of-living indexes, and the economics of insurance. Much of this work has been theoretical. He has published on all these topics, and his papers have appeared in journals in Ireland, Europe and the United States. His research on insurance continues, and alongside it he is currently undertaking applied research on the Irish housing market.
James John Rufus Wickham
James Wickham is Jean Monnet Professor of European Labour Market Studies and director of the Employment Research Centre (ERC) in the Department of Sociology. His PhD from the University of Sussex was a social history of the working class movement in Weimar Germany. Subsequently he researched and published on Irish industrialisation and labour market issues, especially in the electronics industry, and more recently, on the regulation of employment and the European social model. Two areas of current research in the ERC are the relationship between employment and sustainable development (in particular urban transport and mobility) and the globalisation of high skill labour markets.
Scholarship
THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO SCHOLARSHIP 2005:
| Department | Name |
|---|---|
| CLASSICS | DUNCAN EOIN MACRAE |
| PSYCHOLOGY | AMY MARY BROGAN MILENA ANN GANDY |
| NATURAL SCIENCES | SARAH BLAKE COLIN BRADY SARAH REILLY SIMON FLAUBERT FEENEY |
| PHARMACY | ROSEMARY JANE LUCEY ELAINE CARMEL BREEN CIARA JOSEPHINE McGANN |
| PHYSIOTHERAPY | AISLING MARIA TOOLAN DECLAN DONOGHUE BRIAN RANDALL AISLINN SHERWIN |
| COMPUTER SCIENCE | JASON MARSHALL McCANDLESS |
| BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES | NATALIE BERNICE WYNN |
| HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE | ANDREW BYRNE REACHBHA FITZGERALD |
| HISTORY | JAMES CHRISTOPHER CURRY |
| ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES | LAURA JANE GIBSON BRIAN MONAGHAN COLM FRIEL ALEXANDRA KABIROVA LIAM ANTHONY MURPHY CLAIRE ANN KENNEDY DEIRDRE REILLY SÉIN O'MUINEACHÁIN |
| ENGLISH STUDIES | CHRISTOPHER BORSING |
| LAW | MARK ANDREW COEN JAMES MICHAEL GALLEN RACHAEL WALSH |
| EUROPEAN STUDIES | CAOIMHE NI CHONCHUIR |
| COMPUTER SCIENCE, LINGUISTICS AND A LANGUAGE | SEAN HEGARTY |
| MEDICINE | MARY AISLING McMAHON RHEA FITZGERALD UNA NIC IONMHAIN STEPHEN MURPHY PIERCE GEOGHEGAN BRIGID CHRISTINE MARY HALLEY SINEAD BRIGID WALSH ADAM MONTGOMERY OSBORNE |
| DENTAL SCIENCE | GILBERT HENRY ROYSE LYSAGHT KEELIN FOX DANIELLE LOUISE McGEOWN WALID HOSAM EL-KININY |
| HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS | ANNE THERESE JENNINGS |
| ENGINEERING | PAUL MONAHAN OWEN STEWART GRAHAM OISIN LYONS COLMAN O'SULLIVAN CONOR DEVITT |
| TWO SUBJECT MODERATORSHIP | |
| Drama Studies and Russian | BRIGIT KATHARINE McCONE |
| English Literature and French | LUCIA ALICE LUCE PIETROIUSTI |
| Sociology and Economics | EMMA KATHRYN HOWARD |
| Russian and Spanish/Portuguese | CAROLINE PATRICIA PIERCE |
| Jewish Studies and English Literature | CLAIRE ELIZABETH CARROLL |
| Italian and Psychology | EMER EILEAN DELANEY |
| English Literature and Philosophy | BENJAMIN ROBERT EASTHAM |
| Drama Studies and English Literature | AOIFE CATHERINE LUCEY |
| French and Modern Irish | AISLINN MARY McCRORY |
| SOCIAL STUDIES | KATE MARIE GILLEN |
| MATHEMATICS | ADAM HANLEY FULLER DANIEL CIARAN McNAMEE RUBEN FELDMAN |
| THEORETICAL PHYSICS | EOIN PEARSE QUINN STEPHEN ROBERT POWER EOIN KERRANE STEPHEN HARDIMAN MICHAEL STEWART |
| BUSINESS STUDIES AND A LANGUAGE | CIARAN HALPIN |
| LAW AND FRENCH | NIAMH CLEARY CLARE FRANCES MORIARTY |
| LAW AND GERMAN | ANNA HICKEY |
| B.Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE | ROBERT CROSBIE |
| SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL POLICY | CAROLINE O'NOLAN |
| PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE | CARL ANTHONY FOX |
| PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS | ALIAKSANDRA RAKOVICH WEI-YU CHEN MUSTAFA LOTYA |
| NURSING STUDIES | URSULA MURPHY |