Trinity celebrates its 2020 Scholars and Fellows
Posted on: 20 April 2020
Trinity College Dublin is delighted to announce a new cohort of Fellows and Scholars today, on Trinity Monday.
Staff, students, friends and families are unable to celebrate on campus this year due to COVID-19 restrictions and yet all are united in their appreciation for the exceptional achievements of the students and academics who have been elected Scholars and Fellows.
Provost, Dr Patrick Prendergast stood, in line with tradition, on the steps of the Examination Hall in Front Square to read out the names of the Scholars and Fellows.
Dr Patrick Prendergast said:
“We are extremely proud of the hard work and impressive achievements of all the students and academics who have been named Scholars and Fellows. We are very sorry that circumstances mean they cannot be here in person for this special occasion but we offer them our warmest congratulations nonetheless.”
In total, 57 new Scholars, 14 new Fellows, five new Professorial Fellows and three Honorary Fellows were announced (see details below) across a range of disciplines.
Fellowships are awarded to those showing excellence in research and scholarship and to acknowledge a professor’s contribution to academic life and teaching in the College.
Becoming a Trinity Scholar is a major achievement for which second year students must perform exceptionally well in exams held in January, showing deep knowledge of their subjects. The students continue with their usual course work as well as studying independently for these exams.
This year’s Scholars come from a range of disciplines, from Law to Medicine, Nursing, English Literature and many more.
Additionally, three Honorary Fellows were announced. The first is the distinguished astrophysicist Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars in 1967 while still a graduate student, and who has been a champion of women in science and played an important part in drawing up the Athena SWAN Charter and Project Juno at the Institute of Physics.
Fellowship has also been awarded to Professor John Fitzgerald, Research Affiliate at the ESRI, Trinity Adjunct Professor and Chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council to the Government. Professor Fitzgerald has produced a prodigious array of publications over a long research career. He was admitted as a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2011 in recognition of his work on the Irish economy.
An Honorary Fellowship is also awarded to Mr Neil Mendoza, Provost at Oriel College Oxford, who co-founded Forward Publishing with William Sieghart in 1986 and whose other roles include Chairman of the Landmark Trust. It is tradition for Trinity to offer Honorary Fellowship to the Provost of Oriel College Oxford.
The list of Fellows and Scholars is as follows:
Fellows
Dr Conor Buckley, School of Engineering
Dr Brian Caulfield, School of Engineering
Professor Catherine Comiskey, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Dr Sarah Doyle, School of Medicine
Dr Na Fu, School of Business
Dr Giuseppe Mazziotti, School of Law
Dr Aidan McDonald, School of Chemistry
Dr Rachel McDonnell, School of Computer Science and Statistics
Dr Tim Persoons, School of Engineering
Dr Helen Sheridan, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science
Dr Plamen Stanislavov, Stamenov School of Physics
Dr Lidia Tajber, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science
Dr Etain Tannam, School of Religion
Dr Robert Whelan, School of Psychology
Professorial Fellows
Professor Ruth Mazo Karras, Lecky Professor of History (1913)
Professor Andrew Murphy, Professor of English Literature (1867)
Professor Joseph Keane, Professor of Medicine (1955) and Head of Clinical Medicine (St James’s Hospital)
Professor Ahuvia Kahane, Regius Chair of Greek (1761)
A.G. Leventis, Professor of Greek Culture (2017)
Scholars
Horgan, Oisín, Bachelor in Global Business
Ankner-Edelstein, Beaven, Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Barrett, Roísín, Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Cook, Jane, Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Leon, Conor, Biological and Biomedical Sciences
O’Sullivan, Fionn, Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Corcoran, Rhianna, Children’s and General Nursing
Dalton, Monica, Children’s and General Nursing
McGee, Ellen, Children’s and General Nursing
MacNulty, Michael, Classics
Burke, John, Computer Science
Howard, Matthew, Computer Science
Nugent, David, Computer Science
Ogórek, Adam, Computer Science
Hussein, Ahmed, Dental Science
Dunne, Ronan, Economic and Social Studies
Murphy, Grace, Economic and Social Studies
Murphy, Emmet, Engineering
Ó Comáin, Liam, Engineering
Vergeylen, Linde, English Studies
Payling, Rebecca, Geography and Geoscience
Campbell, Beatrice, Law
Conlon, Benjamin, Law
Jackson, Eoin, Law
O’Leary, Rachel, Law
O’Shea, Matthew, Law and Business
Flattery, Saoirse, Law and French
Oudart, Emilie, Law and Political Science
O’Callaghan, Michael, Management Science and Information Systems Studies
Scanlon, Caoimhín, Mathematics
Buttle, Yvonne, Medicine
Fouda, Basem, Medicine
Joy, Angela, Medicine
Laffey, Matthew, Medicine
Mariga, Liam, Medicine
Marzoug O’Brien, Iyad, Medicine
O’Connor, Oisin, Medicine
O’Dowd, Darragh, Medicine
White, Katherine, Medicine
Muodebe, Chidera, Nursing
Prendergast, Jessica, Nursing
Sanfey, Rebecca, Nursing
Bonham Corcoran, Meabh, Occupational Therapy
Solovyeva, Alexandra, Occupational Therapy
Ó Tiarnaigh, Kealan, Pharmacy
O’Donnell, James, Philosophy
McHugh, Ellen ,Philosophy, Political Science, Economics and Sociology
McCarthy, Tom, Physical Sciences
Vaughan, Lorraine, Social Studies
Banks, Grace, TSM English Literature and Philosophy
Bradley, Anthony, TSM English Literature and Modern Irish
De Burca, Aoibhe, TSM French and Psychology
Foley Rooney, Aisling, TSM Classical Civilisation and History
Klatt, Louisa, TSM Jewish and Islamic Civilisations and Psychology
Morgan-Busher, Claire, TSM Ancient History and Archaeology and Latin
Ryan, Roísín, TSM English Literature and History
Vives Lynch, Daniel, TSM History and Music