Trinity Monday 2006 - Fellows and Scholars
John Hegarty, Provost, announcing the
2006 Fellows and Scholars in the Examination Hall
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 (15th May this year) at 10.00 a.m. from the steps of the famous Examination Hall. Three Professorial Fellows, Two Honorary Fellows, Thirteen New Fellows and Sixty Four New Scholars were elected this morning.
Professorial Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 7 OF THE STATUTES,
| Thomas Richard Frazer Rogers | Mathias Senge | William Harrison |
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO PROFESSORIAL FELLOWSHIP.
Thomas Richard Frazer Rogers
Tom Rogers came to Trinity in October 2004 from a chair at Imperial College, London based at Hammersmith Hospital which he held since 1995. Prior to that he had been Reader since 1993 at Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, and earlier was Senior Lecturer at Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, London. He trained as an undergraduate in medicine at RCSI and as a postgraduate in Medical Microbiology at Westminster Hospital Medical School, London. He also studied Medical Law & Ethics at Kings College, London.
His longstanding interest in infections that afflict individuals with various immune deficiency states formed the basis for an established research programme into opportunistic fungal diseases supported in the recent past by several UK research charities and the BBSRC. He has published extensively in this field. Based at St James’s Hospital campus he has re-established his research group focusing on fungal diseases in the Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant programme and on antimicrobial resistance. He was previously Chair of the Hospital Infection Society and is President elect of the Association of Medical Microbiologists.
Mathias O. Senge
Professor Senge studied chemistry in Freiburg, Amherst, Marburg, and Lincoln and graduated from the Philipps Universität Marburg in 1986. After a Ph.D. thesis in plant biochemistry in Marburg (1989) and a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Davis, he moved to the Freie Universität Berlin and received his habilitation in Organic Chemistry in 1996. From 1996 on he was a Heisenberg fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and UC Davis and held visiting professorships at Greifswald and Potsdam. In 2002 he was appointed Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Universität Potsdam and in 2005 came to Trinity College to establish an international center for tetrapyrrole research.
He was the recipient of fellowships from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; and received a Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor award. He has published over 150 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and is strongly interested in interdisciplinary research involving chemistry, medicine, biochemistry and physics. His main interests are the chemistry and biochemistry of tetrapyrroles, photobiology, crystallography, and medicinal and bioorganic chemistry.
William Harrison
Prof. Harrison was appointed as an SFI Research Professor in Computer Science after a long career at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His work has emphasized software for software development, initially on programming languages and program analysis and optimisation and later on software development environments. More recently, his attention has been directed at the development of technologies that allow software programs to be more readily reused in varied circumstances. He is one of the founding researchers in what has come to be called “Aspect-Oriented Software Development” and is focusing his work here on programming language fundamentals for creating more malleable software.
Honorary Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 9 OF THE STATUTES,
| Derrick Crothers | Shaun Richard McCann |
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO HONORARY FELLOWSHIP.
Derrick Crothers
Derrick Crothers graduated in 1963 in Mathematics at Balliol College Oxford where he was the only Open Scholar (War Memorial) of his year (1960-1963). He was appointed to a Lectureship in Applied Mathematics at Queen’s University Belfast in 1966, having completed his PhD (1963-1966); promoted to Reader (in 1976) and to a Personal Chair (in 1985) in Theoretical Physics; served as Head of the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (1989-2001) and Postgraduate Advisor or Studies (1995-2001); Lecturer in Physics (1970-1971) University College London; Visiting Professor (1984) Bordeaux; General and Executive Committee Member of ICPEAC (International Conference for Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions): 1985-1989, 1997-1999, 2005-2017; Local Chair ICPEAC XXVII (Belfast 2011); UK Chair UK-Japan Collaboration on Theoretical Atomic Physics (1988-1998); Manager and Principal Investigator of QUB EPSRC Rolling Grant in Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (1988-1998); UK and Ireland Council of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (1996-1999); Chair of Atomic and Molecular Interactions Group of the UK Institute of Physics (1997-1998); Honorary Professor in Physics, St Petersburg State University (2003-).
Professor Crothers has published, in peer-reviewed journals, ~250 papers on atomic, molecular, optical and condensed-matter physics, including ~40, with Professor W T Coffey of TCD, on liquids and solids; plus another 90 publications. The 250 include 18 chapters in books and a single-author 2000 book: Relativistic Heavy-Particle Collision Theory (Kluwer/Plenum). He has just completed a first draft of his second book: Semiclassical Dynamics and Relaxation (2007). His supervisions have included 32 PhD and some 9 Masters’ theses. He was (1973-1975) a Member of the First Northern Ireland Assembly (Alliance, South Antrim).
Shaun Richard McCann
Shaun McCann graduated in Medicine from University College Dublin in 1970. Following postgraduate training in Dublin and The University of Minnesota, USA, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Haematology at The University of Dublin, Trinity College in 1978. In 1983 he was appointed as Consultant Haematologist in St James’s Hospital, Dublin and in 1995 was appointed as George Gabriel Stokes Professor of Haematology in The University of Dublin, Trinity College. He was appointed as National Medical Director of The Blood Transfusion Service Board by invitation of The Minister for Health and Children for 18 months in 1995 and subsequently became a Board Member.
He carried out the first successful stem cell transplant for leukaemia in Ireland in 1984 and has since been Director of the National Unit which has performed over 800 stem cell transplants. He was the first president of The Haematology Association of Ireland and is a member of a number of Working Parties of The European Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Group. He has been an active researcher into the diagnosis and treatment of haematological malignancies, aplastic anaemia and all aspects of stem cell transplantation. He is the author of over 130 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and numerous book chapters. He has a longstanding interest in undergraduate teaching and is the author of a text book in Haematology, Case-Based Haematology in 2005.
Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 6 OF THE STATUTES,
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO FELLOWSHIP.
Stephen Richard Flint
Stephen Flint came to Trinity as Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Oral Medicine in the Dublin Dental School and Hospital. His research interests include aetiopathogenesis and oral manifestations of systemic diseases, particularly oral mucosal diseases and infections with the herpesvirus and papillomavirus group viruses. Grant funding as a Medical Research Council Research Fellow allowed him to complete his PhD in molecular biology. He was co-recipient of a Health Research Board Unit Grant to investigate Opportunistic Infections in HIV/AIDS, the first such award to the Dental School.
He has numerous journal publications, book chapters and is co-author of "Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases", shortly to go into its 4th edition, which has been translated into five languages and won two medical writing prizes. He has a keen interest in education and was involved in the introduction of the "Problem-Based Learning" educational method to the Dental School. He is also Regional Co-Ordinator for Continuing Dental Education for the Post Graduate Medical and Dental Board, current chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, advisor to the Dental Council, Department of Health and Children, the Irish Medicines Board and Irish Dental Association, invited Medical Research Assessor for the Italian Minister for Health, and was an invited Scientific Assessor to the EU BIOMED Programme, where he chaired the Infectious Disease Committee.
Denis Brendan Tangney
Brendan Tangney is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science having previously worked for SORD Computers in Dublin and Tokyo. He has also held visiting positions in Kyoto University and the University of Sydney. His research interests extend from distributed computing systems (he was associated with the setting up of IONA Technologies) to “Technology and Learning”. In 1990, together with Ann FitzGibbon in the Department of Education, he set up CRITE - the Research Centre in IT and Education. The Centre has gone on to produce novel educational software which is in use around the world.
His current research focuses upon using (mobile) technology to develop innovative social constructivist tools, and scenarios, to facilitate learning. He has published extensively in the areas of distributed computing and technology and learning. He was pedagogical advisor on MIT’s International Toy Symphony Project, is a member of the Editorial Review Board for the AACE Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching and is the program chair for the 2007 Computer Assisted Learning Conference. He is a recipient of the Provost’s Teaching award and served as Junior Dean from 2000-2005.
Helen Buckley
Dr. Helen Buckley’s main research interests are in child welfare and protection policy and practice and she coordinates the Postgraduate Diploma in Child Protection and Welfare. She recently directed a recently published study on children’s experiences of domestic violence and has just completed a three year project which she co-directed with the University of Sheffield on the development of the Framework for the Assessment of Vulnerable Children and their Families. She is the author of Child Protection: Innovations and Interventions, published by the Institute of Public Administration in 2002, and Child Protection: Beyond the Rhetoric, published by Jessica Kingsley, London, in 2003.
She was appointed by the Minister for Health and Children to the Ferns Inquiry into clerical sexual abuse which reported in 2005, and is a member of the Special Residential Services Board. She has been commissioned to advise the Department of Health & Children on child welfare and protection policy matters, and has devised and edited child protection procedures for statutory and voluntary organisations.
Brian Michael Broderick
Dr Brian Broderick is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. His research addresses interactions between the built and natural environments; especially the response and design of engineering structures under earthquake and wind loading and the air quality impact of road traffic emissions. Dr Broderick was awarded his PhD from Imperial College London for research in earthquake engineering, in which field he has developed a number of innovative earthquake-resistant structural elements, and has identified the structural and seismological conditions under which various established member types can be employed in seismic areas.
These results have been incorporated into Eurocode 8 – the harmonised European code of practice for earthquake-resistant structural design. Research in wind engineering has developed techniques for modelling the vibration of wind turbine towers induced by wind loading and blade rotation, and identified optimum vibration control strategies for this type of structure. His work in the field of air quality has led to the validation of atmospheric dispersion modelling techniques for the assessment of the impact of pollutant emissions from industrial and transport sources. Dr Broderick’s research is characterised by the blending of experimental and numerical investigations, with the aim of obtaining improved guidance for engineering practice.
Tomás Eoin O’Sullivan
Dr. Eoin O'Sullivan, lectures in Social Policy in the School of Social Work and Social Policy and co-ordinates the Moderatorship in Sociology and Social Policy. Much of his research in recent years has focused on two inter-related areas: exploring the importance of history to contemporary social policy in Ireland and exploring various dimensions of homelessness and social exclusion in Ireland. These research interests have led to a series of publications on child welfare policy, housing and homelessness policy, the voluntary sector, and crime and imprisonment.
Recent collaborative books include Crime and Punishment in Ireland 1922 to 2003: A Statistical Sourcebook (2005) Crime, Punishment and the Search for Order in Ireland (2004), The Changing Role of the State: The State and the Housing Markets of Europe (2004), Crime Control in Ireland: The Politics of Intolerance (2001) and Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools (1999, 2001).
Darryl Richard Jones
Darryl Jones has been a Lecturer in the School of English since 1994, and is currently Chair of the School and Director of the MPhil programme in Popular Literature. His research interests focus particularly on Jane Austen, on Victorian and Edwardian Popular Fiction, and on horror fiction and film; he has also written on poetic theory, and on Welsh literature and culture (in English and in Welsh).
As well as numerous articles on these subjects, he is the author or editor of four books: Studying Poetry (Arnold/OUP, 2000) [with Stephen Matterson]; Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (Arnold/OUP, 2002); Jane Austen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Re-Interpreting Emmet: Essays on the Life and Legacy of Robert Emmet (UCD Press, forthcoming September 2006). He is currently at work on two long-term book projects: a study of mass death and catastrophe fiction since the Enlightenment; and a book on Ireland and the Irish in late-Victorian and Edwardian popular literature.
Siobhán Clarke
Dr. Siobhán Clarke has been a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science since 2000 having previously worked for IBM. Her research focus is on design and programming models for mobile, context-aware computer systems using aspect-oriented software development techniques. Dr. Clarke’s early research addressed the design of such aspect-oriented software systems and she published the first significant body of work in this field.
Her co-authored book on the Theme Approach to aspect-oriented analysis and design has recently been published in Addison-Wesley’s prestigious Object Technology Series. Her current work is investigating application-specific programming models for mobile and ubiquitous computing supported by Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, and the E.U. She was appointed an IBM Faculty Fellow in 2005 and maintains strong contacts with industry partners through collaborations with Intel Research in the U.S. and Siemens in Germany.
John Waldron
Dr. John Waldron graduated in Engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 1986 and after lecturing in Dublin City University and the University of Natal, returned to TCD as a lecturer in 2000. Dr. Waldron has an outstanding publication record in the best scientific journals such as the Physical Review, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Science of Computer Programming, Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience etc. which has made real contributions to the development of both statistical mechanics and more recently compiler technology for object-oriented languages.
He co-authored "The Langevin Equation With Applications to Stochastic Problems in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering" with W. T. Coffey (Trinity College), Dublin and Yu P Kalmykov (Université de Perpignan, France) and has written a teaching text book "Introduction to RISC Assembly Language Programming" which, together with associated learning technology, is widely used internationally. He was one of the instigators and organisers of the principle international academic conference series on Java Technology, "Principles and Practice of Programming in Java".
Eve Veronica Patten
Eve Patten has been a lecturer in the School of English since 1996. A graduate of Oxford University, she completed her PhD at TCD, after which she spent two years at the Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, and three years as a British Council lecturer in Eastern Europe. She teaches in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and specialises in modern Irish culture and the novel. In 2004 she published Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Four Courts), in which she analysed the nature and evolution of an Irish civic discourse in the period.
She is currently continuing her research in this field towards a major study of Irish Victorian intellectual and cultural life. Her articles have appeared in various Irish and international journals, and her forthcoming publications include a chapter on contemporary Irish fiction for the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (2006). She maintains close research contacts with the Romanian universities of Bucharest and Timisoara, and recently lectured in Croatia as part of Trinity’s staff exchange with the University of Zagreb.
Nicola Mary Marples
Dr. Nicola Marples is a Lecturer in Zoology specialising in behavioural ecology and evolution. She completed her PhD from the University of Wales College of Cardiff in 1990, then carried out Post Doctoral research in Leiden University in the Netherlands and Sussex University in the UK before coming to Trinity College. Her main research programme centres on bird food choice and the effects of those choices on the evolution of aposematic defences in insects. She has made significant advances in our understanding of the ways in which birds recruit new foods to their diet, and the consequences of these new processes to the evolution of new colour patterns in insect prey species. Her work also explores the inter-relations between different types of signal; not only visual, but olfactory and more recently, aural cues given by the prey insects.
In addition to these main themes Dr Marples’ research explores three other subject areas. Studies based at, and largely funded by Dublin Zoo aim to improve housing and management for a range of endangered species. This work is at the forefront of the relatively new research area of zoo biology. In addition, recently she has begun to study badger biology, looking at the diet and reproductive cycle of Irish badgers. This work is being carried out in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture to help inform and develop their vaccination programme against TB. Finally Dr Marples has an active interest in biogeography, and specifically is working on the evolution of bird species living on different islands of the archipelago near Sulawesi in Indonesia. This project is being carried out in association with Operation Wallacea.
Patrick Nevill Wyse Jackson
Dr Patrick Wyse Jackson is a Lecturer in Geology and Curator of the Geological Museum, and a graduate of Trinity. His research interests span the fields of palaeontology and the history of geology. In the former his research primarily concerns aspects of the functional morphology, biogeography, and taxonomy of Lower Palaeozoic bryozoans, while his historical research has focused Irish geology and on geological museums and their collections.
His books include In Marble Halls: geology in Trinity College, Dublin (1994), Science in Ireland in 1798: a time of revolution (Royal Irish Academy, 2000) and the forthcoming The Chronologers’ Quest: episodes in the search for the age of the Earth (CUP). He is editor of The Geological Curator and of Earth Sciences History. He is the Chairman of the RIA Committee for the History of Irish Science, and a member of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences. Dr Wyse Jackson is currently engaged in a study on the Trinity geophysicist John Joly.
Biswajit Basu
Dr Biswajit Basu obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1998 and 1994 respectively, and his undergraduate degree from Jadavpur University, India in 1992 with a gold medal. He received the Dr. K.S. Krishnan Research Fellowship from Government of India. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering since 2002 and has been a visiting lecturer at Rice University, USA; Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany and Aalborg University, Denmark. Prior to joining Trinity College Dublin, he was a Lecturer in Jadavpur University, India for about 4 years.
Due to his international reputation in the field of time-frequency and wavelet analysis he has been invited to deliver guest lectures/seminars at various universities such as Royal Victoria Infirmary, University of New Castle; University of Bristol; UMIST; Rice University, USA; Aalborg University, Denmark; Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His research interests include diverse areas such as random vibrations, stochastic processes, wind and earthquake engineering, vibration control, smart materials, vehicle dynamics, time-frequency and wavelet analysis, system identification and damage detection, traffic modelling and control and biomedical system analysis. He has published about 40 papers in international journals of repute and presented over 60 papers at conferences covering several disciplines of engineering and sub-disciplines of civil engineering. He has received awards for 4 of his papers. He has been consultant for several important engineering projects both in Ireland and in India. He has completed supervision of 1 post-doctoral; 5 PhD; 4 MSc research students and is currently supervising 2 post-doctoral ; 5 PhD research students. He has 1 patent pending to his credit held jointly with two of his colleagues. He has been successful in securing funding over four hundred thousand Euros in his stay at Trinity College Dublin the last four years. He has collaborated with researchers in different departments from within the college and abroad both nationally and internationally. He has 33 coauthors in total for his publications spanning 6 universities in 3 continents.
Stefano Sanvito
Stefano Sanvito completed his undergraduate studies in Milan (Italy), before moving to the University of Lancaster (UK), where he obtained a PhD in theoretical physics. In 2002 he joined the School of Physics at TCD, after having spent two successful years as postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara (USA). At Trinity he created the Computational Spintronics Group, a large and dynamical theoretical/computational research group that investigates elementary properties of materials using computer simulations. At present the group comprises about ten researchers and it is the largest computational materials modelling group in the country.
The main research lines are magnetism and quantum transport. This latter is the ability of conducting electrons through objects as small as a single atom, a research underpinning both nanotechnology and biology. To this purpose he developed the computational package Smeagol, which is at present freely distributed to academia and used worldwide. Dr. Sanvito is author of about fifty publications including a pioneering work on molecular magneto-devices published in the journal Nature. His research program is currently sponsored by Science Foundation of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority and the EU, with a budget of about 2M Euro over four years.
Scholarship
THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO SCHOLARSHIP 2006:
| Department | Name |
|---|---|
| BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES | CLEMENT WILLIAM GRENE |
| CLASSICS | KEVIN McGEE IARFHLAITH MANNY |
| COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS/COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY | MICHAEL PATRICK BYRNE |
| DENTAL SCIENCE | DENISE BOWE BREDA ELIZABETH MARTIN |
| EARLY AND MODERN IRISH | STEPHANIE ROUSSEAU |
| ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES | NICOLA DUNNE BARRY GALLAGHER JOHN DENIS LAVELLE CHARLIE NOLAN |
| ENGINEERING | STEPHEN LIAM ADAMS FIONA LOUISE GAMBLE |
| EUROPEAN STUDIES | GRACE BOLTON |
| HISTORY | SEAMUS CONBOY CHRISTOPHER KISSANE |
| HUMAN GENETICS | NEIL PATRICK JOHN SEWELL |
| B.SC (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) HONS | HELENA MOIR |
| LAW |
AOIFE TERESA BEIRNE BRENDA CARRON OISIN PADRAIG TOBIN |
| LAW AND FRENCH |
JOSEPH HARRINGTON CIARA MURPHY STEPHEN JOHN WALSH |
| MATHEMATICS |
CATHAL JOSEPH PAUL COONEY SEAMUS CHARLES KELLY |
| MEDICINE |
NIAMH CATHERINE ADAMS LAURA COWLEY TERENCE PATRICK JOSEPH FARRELL DAVID ANTHONY FOLEY WING SUET JUDY HUNG CLAIRE McGOVERN CIARA MAGUIRE SIOBHRA O’SULLIVAN NAOMI MALIKA PETTY-SAPHON PAUL ROBERT WEBSTER |
| NATURAL SCIENCES | AISLING BUCKLEY ANNA LINEHAN CAITRIONNA JANE ROCHE BRIAN STEER DOROTHEA OGMORE TILLEY |
| PHARMACY | JENNIFER DWYER |
| PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE | TARA VITA AUSTIN STEVEN WILLIAM CLARKE |
| PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS | RUDY ARTHUR |
| PHYSIOTHERAPY | CUISLE O’DONOVAN CAITRIONA WALSH |
| PSYCHOLOGY |
AMY LOUISE COLLA LORRAINE HESTER |
| SOCIAL STUDIES | AIMEE EDITH JOYCE |
| THEOLOGY | BARRY GEORGE FORDE |
| THEORETICAL PHYSICS |
ROBERT CLANCY CATHAL LEAHY DAVID ANTHONY LEEN PADRAIG LIDDY AARON JOSEPH MEAGHER |
| TWO SUBJECT MODERATORSHIP | |
| Economics and Mathematics | NIAMH CRILLY |
| Biblical Studies and Modern Irish | CAROLINE CULLEN |
| Economics and Mathematics | MICHAEL PATRICK CURRAN |
| English and French | PAUL EARLIE |
| French and Psychology | SARAH MERCY GUBBINS |
| English and Modern Irish | DEIRDRE HOSFORD |
| Economics and Mathematics | MICHAL KOLESAR |
| English and Sociology | EIMEAR MAIRE NIC DIARMADA |