Trinity Monday 2007 - 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 (14th May this year) at 10.00 a.m. from the steps of the famous Examination Hall. Five Professorial Fellows, Three Honorary Fellows, Fifteen New Fellows and Seventy Six Scholars were elected this morning.
Professorial Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 7 OF THE STATUTES,
| Anna Chahoud | Linda Hogan | RoseAnne Marie Kenny |
| Deirdre Josephine Murphy | Marek Radomski |
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO PROFESSORIAL FELLOWSHIP.
Anna Chahoud
Dr Chahoud graduated from the University of Bologna, Italy and received her doctorate in Classics from the University of Pisa. She has taught at the Universities of Reading and Durham in the UK, and at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on early Latin, Roman satire, and the Latin grammatical tradition. Dr Chahoud is a member of the editorial board of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and a consultant for Latin and Italian sources on the Commentarius Rinuccinianus Project (Institute for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster).
Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan is Professor of Ecumenics and currently is Head of School at the Irish School of Ecumenics. After completing her Ph.D in theological ethics at Trinity she spent a number of years at the University of Leeds, following which, in 2001 she was appointed to a lectureship at the Irish School of Ecumenics. Specialising in Christian social ethics, intercultural ethics, and the ethics of gender, her publications include Between Poetry and Politics: Christian Ethics in Dialogue, co-editor, Dublin, 2003, Ethical Relations, co-editor, London, 2003, Gendering Ethics/The Ethics of Gender, co-editor, London, 2001, and Confronting the Truth: Conscience in the Catholic Tradition, New York, 2000.
Forthcoming publications include an edited collection on Jewish, Christian and Islamic responses to political violence, and another on the role of religion in the public square, as well as essays on the significance of the arts for ethical reflection and on the appropriation of human rights language in Christian social ethics.
She has been involved in the development of two major interdisciplinary research centres: The European Association for Catholic Social Thought located at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds. She is a member of the Irish Council for Bioethics.
RoseAnne Marie Kenny
Professor Rose Anne Kenny was appointed to Trinity College and St. James’s Hospital as Head of the Academic Department of Medical Gerontology and Director of the new Centre for Successful Ageing. Professor Kenny is also Director of the new Falls and Blackout Unit and Visiting Professor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She graduated in UCG and completed medical postgraduate training at the Royal Postgraduate Hospital, Hammersmith and the Westminster Hospital, London before taking up a senior lectureship in Newcastle in 1990. She was appointed to the Chair of Geriatric Medicine at the Institute for Ageing & Health, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Director of the Falls & Syncope Service, Newcastle Hospitals Trusts and Deputy Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health, University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1994 .
Professor Rose Anne Kenny’s research interests are in neurocardiovascular function in ageing. The overarching aims of the research programmes are to unpick the mechanisms for cardiovascular and cerebral dysfunction in the context of falls, blackouts, cognitive impairment and dementia. The research involves collaborative partnership with disciplines from basic science (developing animal modules of cardiovascular and cerebral dysfunction) through to health service development and implementation. She has conducted longitudinal cohort studies of vascular factors in cognitive impairment and stroke and is now lead PI for the Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (TILDA). Other major extant research programs include assistive technologies in ageing in collaboration with INTEL and IDA- TRIL; HRB translational program of cardiovascular risk factors for conversion of cognitive impairment to dementia and new treatment strategies for dementia sub types. She has employed 26 new post doc and PHD researchers since her appointment to Trinity College.
Deirdre Josephine Murphy
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Consultant Obstetrician
Trinity College, University of Dublin & Coombe Women’s Hospital
Professor Murphy qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 1989 and continued her postgraduate training in Dublin, Oxford and Bristol. She had a research appointment to the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in Oxford and her doctoral thesis addressed the aetiology of cerebral palsy among preterm babies. She took up a position as Consultant Senior Lecturer in Maternal medicine at the University of Bristol where she was voted Clinical Teacher of the year. She was appointed to the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Dundee in 2002. She moved to the Chair of Obstetrics in Trinity College in 2006. She is a consultant obstetrician with a special interest in high risk obstetrics and labour ward care. Her research interests embrace diverse aspects of perinatal epidemiology.
Marek Radomski
Professor Radomski studied medicine and graduated from the College of Medicine Jagiellonski University in Krakow (Poland). He received P.h.D. in pharmacology from the College in 1983 and habilitation from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland) in 1990. He took his post-doctoral studies in the Wellcome Research Laboratories in Beckenham (U.K.).
He worked as Lecturer (Department of Pharmacology, Jagiellonski University from 1978 to 1988), Senior Lecturer (Polish Academy of Sciences from 1988 to 1991), Professor of Pharmacology (Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Canada from 1994-2002), Director of Research and Development (Lacer, SA. Barcelona, Spain in 1998) Professor of Integrative Pharmacology and Molecular Medicine (University of Texas-Houston from 2002 to 2005) and Director of Research Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, Poland from 2005).
He came to Trinity College as Chair of Pharmacology (1979) School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2006. Recently, he has been appointed as Principal Investigator in the Centre for Research and Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices in Trinity College.
He received a number of awards including Scholarship of Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Scientist Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Senior Scientist Award from the Pharmacological Society of Canada, Fellowship of the World Innovation Foundation and Professorship in Medicine from President of Poland. He is a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator.
Professor Radomski is a highly cited pharmacologist. His current research interests focus on nanopharmacology, nanotoxicology, development of nanocarriers, biology of nitric oxide, reactive oxygen molecules and protein-degrading enzymes.
Honorary Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 9 OF THE STATUTES,
| Donal Patrick Hollywood | Joep Leerssen | Robert Martin |
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO HONORARY FELLOWSHIP.
Donal Patrick Hollywood
Professor Donal Hollywood is the Marie Curie Professor of Clinical Oncology at Trinity College Dublin and the Head of the Academic Unit of Clinical and Molecular Oncology at the College. He has played a major leadership role in cancer service organisation and strategic planning within Ireland including being Chairperson of the National Expert Group on Radiation Oncology (1999-2003) which resulted in the publication of the pivotal advisory document to the Irish Government on the future organisation of National Cancer Services and in particular the Development of Radiation Oncology Services in Ireland. He is the acting Chairperson of the National Radiation Oncology Coordinating Group, a Member of the National Radiation Oncology Project Advisory Group and a member of the National Cancer Forum.
Professor Hollywood has a major interest in molecular oncology and his active research interests include the molecular optimisation of radiation response and the molecular biology of prostate cancer. He has published extensively on his research interests including articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet and EMBO Journal, with additional contributions to a number of major textbooks including the Oxford Textbook of Oncology. He is a member of the Examining Board of the RCSI (FFR) and in addition is visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia, the University of Beunos Aires and the University of Oslo. He is also a member of the Implementation Group of the NCI-All Ireland Consortium and is Chairperson of the Information Technology Subgroup. Through this partnership he has recently enabled the development of a novel telemedicine system “Telesynergy” within Ireland. This system will provide the tele-oncology platform within the proposed future National Clinical Network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres within Ireland, and is the first deployment of the technology outside the United States and the first national tele-medicine system developed in partnership with the United States National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute and Centre for Information Technology. Professor Hollywood has also been invited to participate in a number of advisory groups on Strategic Cancer Programme Development including discussions within the US Presidents Cancer Panel, Cancer Control in Africa (AFROX) and the EU. He has won a number of national and international awards including a Fulbright Scholarship, ICRF research prize, Lilly ESMO Research Prize, Baylor research prize, and the St Luke’s Medal.
Joep Leerssen
Professor Leerssen studied Comparative Literature in Aachen (MA 1979) and Anglo-Irish Studies at University College Dublin (MA 1980); he took his PhD at Utrecht university in 1986. After previous teaching appointments at the University of Toronto and Aachen university, he was appointed Lecturer in European Studies at the University of Amsterdam in 1986. In 1991 he was appointed to the newly established Chair of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He held the Erasmus Lecturership at Harvard in 2003 and served as Director of the Huizinga Institute (the Dutch national research institute for cultural history) from 1996 until 2006. Professor Leerssen was a visiting scholar at TCD's School of English in 1995, and delivered the H.O. White Memorial Lecture there in 2001.
Professor Leerssen's books are among the founding texts of the discipline of Irish Studies; they include the widely acclaimed Mere Irish and Fíor-Ghael (1986) and Remembrance and Imagination (one of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year for 1996). Leerssen has published some 85 invited or peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on cultural stereotyping and national self-images, and on the links between the literary imagination, historical consciousness and nationalism. His two most recent books (De bronnen van het vaderland and National Thought in Europe, both 2006) explore the role of scholars and philologists in the interaction between romanticism and nationalism. He is currently involved in a Europe-wide project to map the cross-national spread and historical dynamics of cultural and ideological movements (such as romantic nationalism) by means of network analysis and innovation-diffusion models.
Robert Martin
Professor Robert Martin graduated with a BA from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1961; he achieved an LL.B. from the University of Toronto in 1967 and an LL.M. with distinction from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies in 1971. He was a Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario (Western) from 1975 to 2005. In addition to Western, he held law teaching appointments at universities in France, Ireland, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius and Tanzania. He has written or edited ten books and published many academic pieces in journals in Canada and other countries. Three of his books are: Media Law, 1997, 2nd ed., 2003 and Speaking Freely: Expression and the Law in the Commonwealth, 1999. (Information about these books can be found at www.irwinlaw.com). Professor Martin speaks three languages: English, French and Swahili. In addition, he is a Barrister and Solicitor (Ontario) and, from 1997 to 2007, was a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, i.e. a member of the board of directors of the governing body of the legal profession in the province of Ontario.
Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 6 OF THE STATUTES,
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO FELLOWSHIP.
Shane Allwright
Shane Allwright is an associate professor of epidemiology in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Trinity College Dublin. She is a former member of the University Board and has served as acting head of department (1991-1993) and MSc course director (1991-2001). Her research interests and publications are on the health effects of passive smoking and of alcohol misuse; asthma and other respiratory diseases; and bloodborne viruses and prisoner health. She is the lead investigator for a study of the impact of the ban on the respiratory health of bar workers (All Ireland Bar Study) and is currently leading an HRB funded trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a community based alcohol intervention programme in GAA clubs.
In 2001 she was awarded the Noel Hickey medal by the All Ireland Social Medicine Meeting and in 2003 she was elected to Fellowship of the UK Faculty of Public Health (formerly Faculty of Public Health Medicine). She is a member of the Board of the Office of Tobacco Control and chaired the Scientific Review Group commissioned by the Office of Tobacco Control / Health and Safety Authority on behalf of the Minister for Health and Children to report on the health effects of passive smoking in the workplace. This report (Report on the health effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the workplace) was critical to the introduction of the Irish legislation banning workplace smoking.
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong has been a lecturer in history at TCD since 2000. Having studied at King's College, London, he undertook his doctoral research at TCD before working on the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography and as a Research Editor with the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His scholarly interests are principally related to the history of seventeenth-century Britain, Ireland and the British empire.
Certain preoccupations have influenced his writing and teaching over the last number of years including the conditions in which political stability can be constructed and maintained in conditions of civil strife, and the manner in which religious, political and national communities are constituted and challenged. Much of this grew out of his research on the protestants of seventeenth-century Ireland and on how matters Irish impacted upon the participants in the English civil wars of the 1640s. These two subjects are considered in his monograph Protestant war: the British of Ireland and the wars of the three kingdoms (2005). He has also co-edited two volumes of studies, Community in early modern Ireland (2006) and Intelligence, statecraft and international power (2006). His shorter publications include articles in Historical Research and the English Historical Review.
Among his current concerns are such questions as the foundations for peace-making in mid-seventeenth century England and Ireland, understandings of religious conversion and the foundations of English imperial thought.
Gernot Biehler
Dr Gernot Biehler, M.A., LL.M. (Cantab.), Ph.D. (Speyer), Priv.-Doz. (Hamburg), is mainly interested in international law, sustainable development and international trade. After a term with the United Nations Legal Adviser he served for more than ten years as a diplomat in New York, Kiev, Bonn, Berlin and Dublin. As Head of Delegation in the NATO Council of Legal Advisers, EU ministerial councils, the Hague, government counsel before several courts, and UN-ECE delegate in Geneva, he took a particular interest in the practical and legal impacts of foreign affairs in all spheres of law and has written a treatise on it. Dr Biehler has an extensive range of publications in German, English and Russian in the field of administrative, public and international law and taught at the universities of Heidelberg (where he was awarded a special distinction for academic teaching), Cologne and Kiev. He lectures in international law, sustainable development and also in international business regulation law on the LLM course at Trinity College.
Mark Brown
Dr Mark Brown read Zoology at Oxford before his PhD studies into the behavioural ecology of seed-harvesting ants at Stanford University. In his subsequent post-doctoral fellowship at ETH-Zurich he started to work on the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in social insects. Since starting at Trinity in 2002, he has continued to work on host-parasite systems, whilst developing new interests in conservation biology. Key questions addressed by his research include the importance of context in the expression of parasite virulence (the damage a parasite does to its host), the impact of parasite community structure on the evolution of parasite virulence, and the impact of multiple host-assemblages on the interaction of host and parasite. These questions have been investigated using bumble bees and their internal parasites, and honey bees and their mite parasites. This research has illuminated our understanding of host-parasite interactions, as well as having applications for the management of honey bee populations. In his second research strand, Dr Brown has developed the first insect conservation group in Ireland, focusing on the causes and correlates of decline in Irish insects, particularly bees. This has produced the first regional IUCN red data list for any invertebrate group in Ireland, national distribution maps for Irish bees, is driving insect conservation policy in Ireland, and has added to the international understanding of the factors causing decline in ecologically and economically important insects. Dr Brown also retains active interests in the general biology of social insects, and when he can still dabbles in these areas!"
Stephen Connon
Stephen Connon was born in Dublin in 1976 and graduated from DCU with a B.Sc. in Pure and Applied Chemistry in 1997. He then moved to UCD to study for a Ph.D. on the chemistry of pyridyne reactive intermediates under the supervision of Prof. A. F. Hegarty, which was completed in 2000. After being awarded an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship he spent two years at the Technische Universitaet Berlin as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Dr. S. Blechert’s laboratories, studying the design of new homo- and heterogeneous olefin metathesis catalysis. In 2003 he was appointed to the staff of Trinity College as a Lecturer in the School of Chemistry. His research interests include organocatalysis, the discovery and development of novel synthetic methodology and the design of new anti-cancer and anti-bacterial agents. In 2007 he was awarded the VTP Provost’s award for excellence in volunteerism.
Thomas Connor
Dr. Thomas Connor joined the Department of Physiology and Institute of Neuroscience in Trinity College as a Lecturer in 2002. He is a graduate of NUI Galway, where he was awarded a B.Sc. in Biochemistry (1993), and a Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology (1997). Dr. Connor's research is largely focused on nervous system-immune system interactions, and can be divided into two interrelated themes. Firstly, he is interested in the role of inflammatory processes in the aetiology of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disease. His research in this area has contributed to our understanding of how inflammatory stimuli induce symptoms of anxiety and depression, and has also demonstrated that antidepressant drugs have anti-inflammatory actions, and can ameliorate the depressive-like actions of inflammation. A second focus of his research is on the immunomodulatory effects of psychological stress and drugs of abuse. Here he has demonstrated that exposure to both psychological stress, and ingestion of drugs that have stimulant or "stress-like" actions on the nervous system suppress functioning of the immune system via common neuroimmune mechanisms. To date Dr. Connors research has resulted in almost 40 published papers in peer-reviewed international journals, a book chapter, and over 80 minor publications such as book reviews and conference abstracts.
In addition to his research activities, on his appointment to College in 2002 Dr. Connor established a new undergraduate degree programme in Neuroscience, and in 2006 established a taught M.Sc. in Neuroscience, both of which are highly successful flagship courses for Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.
Anna Davies
Dr Anna Davies works on the interface of physical and human geography examining the formation and implementation of environmental policy. She has been working in the environmental field for the past ten years. In 1995 Dr Davies was a Guinness Earth Science Fellow and participated in a solar technology project in Lombok, Indonesia. Following completion of her PhD in the University of Cambridge, Dr Davies conducted post-doctoral research on sustainable communities with the Committee for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies in Cambridge. Issues of environmental awareness, environmental action and community capacity building were the central components of this research. In 1999 Dr Davies was subsequently appointed as a Lecturer in Environmental Geography at King's College London where she maintained her research interest in the areas of environmental policy, politics and values. In 2000 she was awarded a fellowship from the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, in New York, to work with their project ‘Understanding Values’: the role of values and the environment in the US, China, Japan and India. Dr Davies joined the Department of Geography in Trinity in September 2001 and was awarded a Research Fellowship by the IRCHSS in 2005. She is currently involved in a number of projects within the field of environmental governance, particularly examining the politics of waste management. Current projects include evaluating the role of civil society in waste governance (funded by the Royal Irish Academy Third Sector Research Programme); the impact of pay-by-use waste charging mechanisms (funded by the Environmental Protection Agency); and the politics of biodiversity planning (funded by the Environmental Protection Agency). Further details of current projects can be found on the research pages of the School Of Natural Sciences (http://www.naturalscience.tcd.ie/.
Dr Davies research interests are environmental governance; environmental politics and planning; environmental values and valuation; environmental education and sustainable development.
Clair Gardiner
Clair Gardiner is a lecturer in Immunology in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology since 2002. She obtained her Ph.D. from Faculty of Medicine in UCD and came to Trinity after a post-doctoral fellowship in Stanford University in California. Her research interest is Natural Killer (NK) cells, a white blood cell of the immune system which fights viral infections and cancer. The lab research focus is on elucidating the mechanisms by which NK cells recognise target cells. Different receptor families are involved and her group recently identified a novel role for Toll-like receptors in human NK cells. Her work is published in high quality peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Immunology. The lab is funded by grants from Science Foundation Ireland and the Health Research Board.
David Gregg
Dr. David Gregg has been a Lecturer in Computer Science since October 2000. He completed his doctorate from the TU Vienna in 2001, and an MSc in Computer Science from University College Dublin in 1996. Dr. Gregg's research interests span the areas of compilers, program optimization and computer architecture. He is particularly interested in code transformations that exploit the features of modern computer architectures. His current research, which focuses on optimizations for multi-core processors, is supported by Enterprise Ireland, IBM, Intel and IRCSET.
Dr. Gregg has had papers accepted in some of the most prestigious international computer science journals such as ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems and ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization. Although he has a wide variety of research interests, Dr. Gregg is best known internationally for his work on lightweight implementations of programming languages using virtual machines. He is a founder of the annual ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), and general chair of the VEE 2008 conference in Seattle.
Stefan Hutzler
Dr Stefan Hutzler is a Physics graduate (Dipl.-Phys) of the University of Regensburg, Germany (1994). He completed his PhD in the Physics Department of TCD in 1997 and has been a lecturer in this Department (now School) since 1999. Since 2006 he leads the "Foams and Complex Systems" group.
His main research interests are the physics of foams, where he made significant advances, including the discovery of a solitary drainage wave, collective bubble motion due to drainage or to shear, and progress in foam rheology. More recently he also contributed to the application of statistical physics to problems in finance and sociology, such as the distribution of wealth in society. Dr. Hutzler is co-author of over 70 publications. The book "The Physics of Foams" (OUP 1999), written together with Prof Denis Weaire FRS, received excellent reviews upon publication and has now turned into the standard source of reference for research in this area.
Daniel Kelly
Dr Kelly’s interests are in plant ecology and, in particular, the area of phytosociology, with papers spanning the spectrum of Irish native woodland communities. His floristic expertise extends to bryophytes and lichens as well as vascular plants. His interests in tree regeneration and forest dynamics have led him to establish detailed study plots in Irish and neotropical forests, for long-term monitoring. His interest in the biology of oak has led to a long-term experimental study of sessile oak (Quercus petraea) regeneration, and to collaboration with molecular systematists in elucidating the phylogeography of Irish oak. Dr Kelly has a special interest in epiphytic plant communities, both in Ireland and the New World tropics. His research has sought to promote the conservation of native vegetation and flora, focusing on the problems of invasive alien species, grazing management and deforestation. His interest in conservation extends to the broader landscape, and he is also involved in studies on the biodiversity of hedges and of semi-natural grasslands.
Brendan Murphy
Brendan Murphy is a Lecturer in Statistics. He completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in University College Cork, before moving to Yale University for his PhD research. He joined the Department of Statistics in Trinity College Dublin in 1999. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences in the University of Washington, Seattle in 2005.
His research interests include mixture modelling, cluster analysis, classification and rank data analysis. He is interested in applications of statistical methods in areas including education, political science and food science. He has published in major international journals including Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. His research programme is currently funded by Teagasc and Science Foundation of Ireland. He is an Associate Editor of Statistics and Computing and he has been on the organising committees of international conferences including the Young Statisticians Meeting and the Royal Statistical Society conference.
Richard K. Porter
Dr Porter graduated with a primary degree in Biochemistry from Trinity College Dublin in 1986. He took up a Ph.D. position in Trinity, in the laboratory of John M. Scott, working on the sub-cellular compartmentalization of folate metabolism, a move which resulted in extensive collaboration with Dr. Martin D. Brand at the University of Cambridge. On completing his Ph.D. (1991) Richard worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Brand investigating the molecular basis of basal metabolism, with particular emphasis on the efficiency of mitochondrial function. He was awarded a Health Research Board Fellowship to continue his research into the regulation of mitochondrial function, returning to the laboratory of Prof. Clive Williams in Trinity College in 1994.
In 1997 he was awarded a lectureship in Trinity and was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2006. Dr Porter has extensive publications in the area of energy metabolism in mammals, discoveries that are strategic for obesity and ageing research. He has communicated his discoveries at conferences globally. He is the current chairman of the European Bioenergetics Conference (EBEC 2008) and a Bioenergetics Theme Panel representative of the Biochemical Society. He is also Director of Teaching and Learning (Postgraduate) in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, where his other duties include co-ordinator for the teaching of Biochemistry to medical and radiotherapy students.
Valentin Troll
Dr Valentin Troll has been a lecturer at TCD since 2001. He teaches petrology, volcanology and high-temperature geochemistry. His main research interest is the evolution of volcanic systems and the processes within volcanoes that bring about explosive volcanic eruptions. Troll graduated from St Andrews University, Scotland (1998), with a thesis on the volcanic history of the Isle of Rum Nature Reserve, Scotland. He completed his PhD in 2001 ‘with distinction’‚ at the GEOMAR Research Laboratories in Kiel, Germany, where he worked as a ‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’ fellow on the chemical and structural evolution of Gran Canaria Island, Spain. From Blaise Pascal University he received the ‘Habilitation a diriger des recherches’ (HDR) in 2006, the highest academic degree in France awarded for scientific leadership in teaching and research.
Dr Troll founded and directs the Volcanic and Magmatic Processes Group and the Volcanic Analogue laboratory at TCD. He has published about 30 research papers since 2000 and authored/co-authored two books on the geology of the Isle of Rum, Scotland. His undergraduate and postgraduate students have received more than a dozen national and international prizes and contribute greatly to his active research programmes in the Tertiary Volcanic Province in NE Ireland and NW Scotland, the Canary Islands and Indonesia. In 2005 Dr Troll accepted an invitation to lecture as Visiting Professor at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France, where he teaches masters classes in volcanology. He was elected committee member of the VMSG, the volcano interest group of the Geological Society and the Mineralogical Society of Britain and Ireland, where Ireland had not been represented since the 1980s. He was awarded the ‘de Courcy Duggan Prize’ of the University of St Andrews (1998), the ‘Geoff Brown Prize’ of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group, UK (2001), a Royal Society visiting fellowship (2003) and a ‘most cited paper award’ by the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research of Elsevier publishing company (2007).
Daniela Zisterer
Daniela Zisterer has been a lecturer in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology since 2000 and is also a graduate of Trinity. She is currently Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning for the School and also coordinates the Moderatorship in Biochemistry with Cell Biology.
Dr Zisterer’s main research programme seeks to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying apoptotic cell death and how deregulated apoptosis leads to cancer. She is currently involved in developing novel anti-cancer agents with a number of international research collaborators. One of her ongoing projects is the development of a novel series of pyrrolo-1,5-benzoxazepine (PBOX) compounds as potential anti-cancer agents. She has identified that these PBOX compounds potently induce apoptotic cell death in many resistant human cancer cells while eliciting minimal toxicity on normal cells and she has recently been granted a patent for their use as anti-cancer agents. Dr Zisterer is the author of over 30 publications in some of the best international scientific journals including the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Molecular Pharmacology and the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Her research is supported by Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland.
Scholarship
THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO SCHOLARSHIP 2007:
| Department | Name |
|---|---|
| B.Ed. (Music Education) |
Emily Martha Andrews Darren Magee |
| Biblical and Theological Studies | Jill McArdle |
| Dental Science |
John Martin Ahern Sinead Treasa Cooney Clara Gibson Jennifer Anne Lawson |
| Drama and Theatre Studies | Oonagh Breda Murphy |
| Early and Modern Irish | Christina Cleary |
| Economic and Social Studies | Anne Byrne Kieran Thomas Curtis Nathalie Bronagh Ennis James Philip McLaughlin Emma Mary O'Donoghue Jennifer Ann O'Meara Adnan Velic |
| Engineering | Colm Bhandal Neil Thomas John Cagney Jingran Gao Ronan James O'Brien Mark John O'Callaghan Roisin Frederica Rowley-Brooke |
| English Studies | Kevin Brazil Tara Joanne Robinson |
| European Studies | Judith Ashley Brown Sinead Walsh |
| History | Stephen Henry Matthew Furlong |
| History and Political Science | Giulia Ni Dhulchaointigh |
| Law | Siobhan Caslin Andrea Maria Mulligan Sarah Jean Swaine |
| Law and French | Aislinn Francesca Lucheroni Silvia Schmidt |
| Mathematics | Barry Devlin Thomas Moran Seamus O'Boyle |
| Medicine |
Ealga Beary Anne Rebecca Buckley Eoin Patrick Finegan Louise Fitzgerald Laura Elizabeth Gleeson Anne Marie Liddy Emer McLoughlin Tria Rooney Anna Sheane Bill Walsh |
| Mental and Moral Science | Matthew Robert Adams |
| Music | George Henry Jackson |
| Natural Sciences |
Sonia Mary Buckley Ciaran Sean Cleary Laura Devaney Rutsu Kenmoku John Anthony Lee Georgina Anne Veronica Murphy Michael Brendan Sexton |
| Pharmacy |
Mary-Claire Kennedy Manuj Sharma |
| Physiotherapy |
Niall McGrane Tom Kavanagh O'Dwyer Darragh Whelan |
| Psychology |
Caoimhe Nic A Bhaird Cliodhna O'Connor Seamus Anthony McManus |
| Theology | Stephen Andrew Farrell |
| Theoretical Physics |
Stephen Kevin Britton Shane Dooley Terence Chris Farrelly Sean Fitzgerald |
| Two Subject Moderatorship |
Michael James Carroll Rolf Fredheim John James Gallagher Cathal Kelly Hardiman Claire Hennessy Michael Sherlock Caitlin Valiulis Eimhin James John Walsh |