There’s links here to all the scientists in all the zones we’ve run since November 2012.
Each column can be reordered (click on the title). Or you can always use CTRL-F to search for a particular scientist, topic or zone.
| Name | About me and my work | Zone name | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enda O'Connell | I use a robot called Janus to try to find cures for different types of cancer and other diseases. | Health Zone | November 2012 |
| Jean Bourke | I’m a carbohydrate chemist and I make sugars no one has ever made before and, with biologists, try and find out what effect they have on our cells | Health Zone | November 2012 |
| Kate Twomey | I eavesdrop on deadly bugs that live in the lungs of people with a disease called cystic fibrosis….the bugs “chat” to one another in the lungs and it’s my job to shut them up!! | Health Zone | November 2012 |
| Kevin Lomasney | I am interested in finding out if certain bacteria can be used as medicine to help your bowels when you’re suffering from the runs or whether nothing is moving at all!! | Health Zone | November 2012 |
| Tim Downing | I work on discovering mutations linked to drug resistance in flesh-eating parasites. | Health Zone | November 2012 |
| Aggelos Zacharopoulos | I research and teach Renewable Energy and Energy in Buildings at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. In my work I am looking for smart ways to generate electricity and heat from the sunlight and also design intelligent buildings that are cheaper to run and better to live in than traditional ones. | Hydrogen Zone | November 2012 |
| Andrew Jackson | I study why animals are different shapes and why they do different things. I am particularly interested in how animals that live in social groups resolve fights and cooperate to solve challenges like finding food and avoiding being eaten. | Hydrogen Zone | November 2012 |
| Eileen Diskin | I use samples from flamingo bums to find links between environmental and human health – because polluted environments can cause serious diseases for people! | Hydrogen Zone | November 2012 |
| Naomi Elster | I grow cancer cells in the lab and collect tumours from patients so that I can study them and find better ways to treat cancer. | Hydrogen Zone | November 2012 |
| Shane Bergin | I’m a nanoscientist – harnessing the super-dooper from the nitty-gritty! | Hydrogen Zone | November 2012 |
| Arlene O'Neill | I make nanosheets that are a 100,000 smaller than a single strand of hair | Space Zone | November 2012 |
| Colin Johnston | I talk about space and other cool stuff. | Space Zone | November 2012 |
| David McKeown | I work on ways of moving spacecraft around in space. It is all lasers and rockets *pew* *pew* | Space Zone | November 2012 |
| Eugene Hickey | I lecture to undergraduate students and I work as part of a research group that looks for new planets around distant stars. | Space Zone | November 2012 |
| Paul Higgins | I am trying to find out: How do magnetic fields on the Sun lead to explosions of hot gas and radiation that endanger satellites and astronauts on space-walk? | Space Zone | November 2012 |
| Angela Stevenson | I use robots to collect and observe sea urchins that live in deep-sea coral reefs (1500m below the ocean’s surface!) so that we can better understand, manage, and conserve these vulnerable habitats | Helium Zone | November 2013 |
| Gabriele De Chiara | Schroedinger’s cat, quantum teleportation and other weird things of the quantum universe | Helium Zone | November 2013 |
| Karen McCarthy | My work is all about about tiny compartments inside bacteria, which work like little factories – meaning there’s huge potential! | Helium Zone | November 2013 |
| Maria McNamara | I’m a palaeobiologist: I work on the biology of ancient creatures that lived millions of years ago. I’m interested in how fossils form, what colours ancient animals were and how birds (and dinosaurs!) evolved feathers and flight. | Helium Zone | November 2013 |
| Shane Mc Guinness | I work with some of the most endangered species on the planet and investigate how they can come into conflict with farming communities living near their habitats. | Helium Zone | November 2013 |
| Cathal Cummins | I am an applied mathematician and I solve all sorts of physics problems using maths. | Lithium Zone | November 2013 |
| Ciara Keane | I look at the fight between immune cells & infectious diseases | Lithium Zone | November 2013 |
| Emma Cahill | I am one of the many neuroscientists trying to figure out how addictive drugs, like cocaine, change people’s behaviour and in the long term can cause addiction. | Lithium Zone | November 2013 |
| Michael Nolan | Using large computers we answer some questions: (1)can we make hydrogen from water (2) use wasted co2 to make fuels (3) produce verrrrrry thin structures (1 atom thick) to make faster electronics. | Lithium Zone | November 2013 |
| Sive Finlay | I study weird mammals from Madagascar called tenrecs which look like shrews and hedgehogs but are actually more closely related to elephants! | Lithium Zone | November 2013 |
| Adam Murphy | I’m a Ph.D. student in DCU using lasers to make very tiny shapes with silver that can be used to detect disease | Nanotechnology Zone | November 2013 |
| Christian Wirtz | I build nanostructures from atoms and molecules… kind of like using LEGO, but even the finished products are smaller than a virus. | Nanotechnology Zone | November 2013 |
| Eleanor Holmes | I make and test electronic devices built from graphene to probe the properties of this century’s “Wonder Material” | Nanotechnology Zone | November 2013 |
| Jessamyn Fairfield | I’m a nanoscientist, so I take nanomaterials and apply light and electric fields to see what happens. | Nanotechnology Zone | November 2013 |
| Sinead Cullen | My work involves making new biological tests to try diagnose one of the worlds biggest killers, heart disease. | Nanotechnology Zone | November 2013 |
| colm bracken | I am in my final year as a PhD student at N.U.I. Maynooth, researching new simulation methods for instruments for far-infrared astronomy. | Space Zone | November 2013 |
| Eoin O Colgain | I work on supergravity theories, essentially attempts to unify gravity with other forces. | Space Zone | November 2013 |
| Joseph Roche | I love science and I love talking. I think I might have found my perfect job because I spend most of my time talking about science 🙂 | Space Zone | November 2013 |
| Lauren Mc Keown | I am a first year astrophysics PhD student in Trinity College and I am investigating the magnetic structure of the atmospheres of cool giant stars. | Space Zone | November 2013 |
| Stephen Scully | Development of new telescopes for the European Space Agency | Space Zone | November 2013 |
| Colin Johnston | I explain the amazing worlds of astronomy and space sciences to everyone and anyone. | Beryllium Zone | November 2014 |
| John Wenger | I teach chemistry at university and also do research on air pollution and climate change. | Beryllium Zone | November 2014 |
| Kevin Motherway | Making sure that people operating mines, power stations, pharmaceutical plants, landfill and factories can all make our day to day lives better, but without the environment and future generations paying the price! | Beryllium Zone | November 2014 |
| Shikha Sharma | The aim of my work is to help save lives by developing a blood test device for cancer detection that will help us to catch it early, when treatment is more likely to be successful. | Beryllium Zone | November 2014 |
| Tríona O'Connell | I study the sugars on the surface cells and how they change as a cell dies | Beryllium Zone | November 2014 |
| Áine Broderick | I look at indoor air quality before and after people make their house warmer. | Boron Zone | November 2014 |
| Ciarán O'Brien | I look at the bacteria that grow in your gut (mostly by rooting through someone’s poop, yay!), and how they can affect your physical and mental health. | Boron Zone | November 2014 |
| Eoin Carley | I study explosions in the sun’s atmosphere and how these affect technology at Earth. | Boron Zone | November 2014 |
| Lydia Bach | I am catching, collecting, counting and dissecting fish, crabs, worms & other crawly creatures, to study food webs in seashores across the UK. | Boron Zone | November 2014 |
| Victoria Simms | As a developmental psychologist I carry out experiments to work how kids think and learn. | Boron Zone | November 2014 |
| Anthea Lacchia | I hunt extinct squid-like creatures preserved in rocks and give them funny-sounding Latin names. | Evolution Zone | November 2014 |
| Chloe Kinsella | I am investigating if climate change will affect the plants and animals that live along Irelands coastlines. | Evolution Zone | November 2014 |
| Kevin Healy | I try to figure out what makes predators so good at catching their dinner and what makes prey good at avoiding becoming dinner. | Evolution Zone | November 2014 |
| Michel Dugon | I have the most exciting job in the world: I study how venomous animals such as snakes, scorpions, spiders or centipedes have developed their venom glands, their fangs and stingers and how they inject toxins (venom) into their prey | Evolution Zone | November 2014 |
| Sean Kelly | I study birds on tropical islands in Indonesia, trying to learn more about how birds evolve into new and different forms | Evolution Zone | November 2014 |
| Ahmed Osman | PhD Student, in Green Chemistry. I am working in the area of production of (New) and (Environment Friend) fuel | Sustainability Zone | November 2014 |
| Francesca Paradisi | The world of extremophilic organisms is fascinating, they can help solving some of our industrial problems without much effort! | Sustainability Zone | November 2014 |
| George Dowson | I’m a chemist working on ways to make our future fuels more environmentally friendly and sustainable. | Sustainability Zone | November 2014 |
| James Sullivan | A mixture of research, teaching and school administration. Research is in catalysts for solar energy conversion, bio-fuels and bio-chemical production and environmental cleanup | Sustainability Zone | November 2014 |
| Nitheen Kaperi | Designing molecules towards a smarter tomorrow. | Sustainability Zone | November 2014 |
| Anne Moore | My passion is to make vaccines that work and prevent children getting sick or dying from infectious diseases. | Drug Synthesis | November 2015 |
| Florence McCarthy | We explore chemical space and make new molecules made up of atoms connected in shapes never made before with the ultimate aim of developing drugs to treat diseases. | Drug Synthesis | November 2015 |
| Mark Collins | I work in Pharmaceuticals, from early stage development to advanced clinical trials! | Drug Synthesis | November 2015 |
| Neil Day | I ensure that we have enough manufacturing knowledge about how medicines or synthesised and formulated | Drug Synthesis | November 2015 |
| Sinead Balgobin | I’m trying to make new reactions, so that we have new (hopefully better) ways of making medicines. | Drug Synthesis | November 2015 |
| Andrew Quigley | Finding the amount of vitamins and fatty acids in milk using analytical chemistry | Food Science Zone | November 2015 |
| Dilip Rai | Structure-Function of health benefitting molecules in our food. | Food Science Zone | November 2015 |
| Emma Feeney | One of the things I do is looking at cheese intake, and how it impacts our nutrition and our health. I’m interested in how people taste things as well | Food Science Zone | November 2015 |
| John Gleeson | I’m trying to make a pill from compounds from in milk, chicken and fish to help prevent heart attacks! | Food Science Zone | November 2015 |
| Ruth Hamill | Working on ways to make meat and meat products healthier and tastier | Food Science Zone | November 2015 |
| Aisling Kerr | I fire lasers at nanosized particles to see how they react | Nanoscience Zone | November 2015 |
| Anil Jain | I build new and very fast electrical circuits using tiny transistors (which are invisible to human eyes) to increase the speed of internet (a very small part of it anyways). | Nanoscience Zone | November 2015 |
| Claire O'Connell | I make tiny glass cases for luminescent dyes that attach to rare cells in blood to make them easier to find. | Nanoscience Zone | November 2015 |
| Leona Mc Girr | Nanoscience Zone | November 2015 | |
| Micki Mitchell | I diagnose diseases using lazer light | Nanoscience Zone | November 2015 |
| Chloe Huseyin | Bacteria aren’t the only things that live in your gut! I work on some of the other stuff. | Nitrogen Zone | November 2015 |
| Irene Regan | I am a Medical Scientist (Laboratory Haematologist- that’s a very big word!!!), I look at blood! I also lecture and I am President of the professional body for Medical and Clinical Scientists in Ireland- I get to wear a big chain sometimes, a bit like a Lord Mayor!! | Nitrogen Zone | November 2015 |
| Pierre Casaubielh | I am helping in developing lectures for online learning to facilitate students and companies around the world having access to knowledge | Nitrogen Zone | November 2015 |
| NULL | Nitrogen Zone | November 2015 | |
| Uday Bangavadi | The invisible Light which makes you see the world. | Nitrogen Zone | November 2015 |
| Alan Matthews | Farming Zone | November 2016 | |
| Caitriona Maher | Farming Zone | November 2016 | |
| Catherine Keena | Farming Zone | November 2016 | |
| Dara Stanley | Farming Zone | November 2016 | |
| Erin Jo Tiedeken | Farming Zone | November 2016 | |
| Laura Devaney | Farming Zone | November 2016 | |
| Ronan Byrne | Farming Zone | November 2016 | |
| Dervil Cody | I make holograms which can tell us if water or air is polluted. | Light Zone | November 2016 |
| Moises Jezzini | Converting electric signals into photonic signals and vice versa | Light Zone | November 2016 |
| Dr. Pramod Kumar | I have worked on design and development of ultrashort laser pulses (picosecond to femtosecond )based on quantum nano structures based semiconductor laser. | Light Zone | November 2016 |
| Saoirse McCrann | I am trying to find a way to prevent children from having to wear glasses to see the board in school | Light Zone | November 2016 |
| Stephen Davitt | I fire big lasers at samples and look at the light from the explosions | Light Zone | November 2016 |
| Emma Roycroft | I figure out if people have tuberculosis or not, and if that TB is resistant because of mutations it has developed. | Mutation Zone | November 2016 |
| Monica Flaherty | I am a medical scientist in a hospital laboratory | Mutation Zone | November 2016 |
| Sebastian Gornik | I am a researcher in basic science – this means I try to answer fundamental questions about how life works and the majority of my scientific output is not directly applied, but often leads to new findings that allwo others to conducted applied science experiments based on my findings. | Mutation Zone | November 2016 |
| Sinead Loughran | I am a science lecturer and researcher at Dundalk Institute of Technology. | Mutation Zone | November 2016 |
| Thomas McLoughlin | Regulate genetically modiifed organisms (GMOs) in Ireland, ie. their use in laboratories and for field/clinical trials | Mutation Zone | November 2016 |
| Gavin Coleman | I try to understand the types of interactions between nanoparticles and the environment, and am developing a technique to detect their benefits and dangers. | Oxygen Zone | November 2016 |
| Karen | Oxygen Zone | November 2016 | |
| Mark Kennedy | I study the remnant cores of stars which ended their life thousands to millions of years ago. There are 3 different types of cores - white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, and tell us about how stars in the Universe evolve. | Oxygen Zone | November 2016 |
| Michel Destrade | I try to model, describe and predict the mechanical behaviour of soft solids such as gels and soft tissues, including the skin and the brain. | Oxygen Zone | November 2016 |
| Roisin Jones | I work in a lab for a pharmaceutical company, researching new medicines and new ways to make old medicines. | Oxygen Zone | November 2016 |
| Annette Neill | I keep track of the quality of the Laboratory service and the small hand held devices that the Medical staff use | Smart Data Zone | November 2016 |
| Dave Concannon | Creating Real-time data visualisations to help deliver HIV care in rural South Africa | Smart Data Zone | November 2016 |
| Jaine Blayney | I uncover new patterns and trends in big data to help understand why some patients respond well to treatment, yet others don’t. | Smart Data Zone | November 2016 |
| Julio Gutierrez | I use very big computers to undertand how materials work and to desing new materials for future applications. | Smart Data Zone | November 2016 |
| Mike Whitfield | These days I use data to help the scientific journal I work for find more readers, but before that I used computer models to predict how farming in Ireland might affect the environment, and climate change. | Smart Data Zone | November 2016 |
| Hugh J. Byrne | Irish Scientist, originally trained in physics, now working a lot in areas of nanoparticle cell interactions, and biomedical applications of spectroscopy | Diagnosis Zone | November 2017 |
| James Brown | I work on understanding and hopefuly one day creating a new treatment for breast cancer. | Diagnosis Zone | November 2017 |
| Katherine Benson | I am a geneticist; a gene detective! | Diagnosis Zone | November 2017 |
| Matthew Flood | Biomedical Engineering PhD Student | Diagnosis Zone | November 2017 |
| Shannon Fullbrook | Looking at the smaller picture | Diagnosis Zone | November 2017 |
| Emma Hanley | In my PhD project I am trying to figure out what will Ireland's energy system look like in the future. Using a computer model I create different scenarios into the future. My PhD project is part of a wider project with different Universities (Queen's University in Belfast, University College Cork and North Carolina State University in the USA). For example if I compare a scenario where our energy system doesn't change too much from what it is now and compare this to a scenario in which we use a lot of renewable energy, so energy from things like solar panels, bioenergy from plants and wind turbines instead of fossil fuels such as petrol and diesel for transport or coal for making electricity it would give us two very different futures. My goal in particular is to find what is the role of electricity for things like heating our homes and business or powering our cars and what are the different challenges to what we call low-carbon energy futures. | Energy Zone | November 2017 |
| Karla Dussan | Finding better and new ways to use organic wastes and biomass to produce energy and chemicals. From the electricity we use at home, to the gasoline for our cars, with lots of possibilities in between. | Energy Zone | November 2017 |
| Shane Mcdonagh | I am a researcher in renewable energy at the Environmental Research Institute in University College Cork. My work is about a new way of storing energy so that we can use more renewable energy like wind turbines and solar panels than ever before. I try to answer questions like how expensive will it be, where is the best place to build it, and new ideas to make it more effective. | Energy Zone | November 2017 |
| Stephen Rhatigan | I try to develop new materials which can convert solar energy into fuel. To do this I use computer simulations which run on giant supercomputers. With these simulations I can see what is happening at the atomic scale. | Energy Zone | November 2017 |
| Yang Li | Burn different fuels | Energy Zone | November 2017 |
| Chris Werner | I work with past climate datasets, and manipulate them using coding languages so industry and other scientists can use them and make decisions | Fluorine Zone | November 2017 |
| Joanne Duffy | I force bacteria to make glue by stealing genes from barnacles, and inserting them into bacteria. | Fluorine Zone | November 2017 |
| Kathryn Schoenrock | Marine botanist (seaweed enthusiast) and bipolar scientist. | Fluorine Zone | November 2017 |
| Kieran Fraser | Creating a personal butler to handle all the incoming notifications, emails and messages on my phone so I don't have to! | Fluorine Zone | November 2017 |
| Sarah Guerin | I use computer models and simulations to tell us things about crystals before we even make them, and to make blueprints for new crystals! Right now I focus on modelling crystals that make up a lot of the medicines we use everyday. | Fluorine Zone | November 2017 |
| Ciara O'Donovan | I look at the microbes from different environments such as the guts of athletes or food. | Food Zone | November 2017 |
| Elaine Kennedy | I'm a research nutritionist investigating if milk proteins can help people control their blood sugar levels which is really important for people with diabetes. | Food Zone | November 2017 |
| Golnaz Ezzati | Researcher and a PhD student in cleaning soil and water from (agricultural) wastes | Food Zone | November 2017 |
| Gonzalo Delgado-Pando | Food science. Specifically meat science | Food Zone | November 2017 |
| Ioannis Zabetakis | Food Chemistry; Biochemistry and Nutrition | Food Zone | November 2017 |
| Yvonne Lenighan | I am investigating if grass-fed beef is healthier than grain-fed beef | Food Zone | November 2017 |
| Chinna | My work is to build circuits for light to find bugs in water or speed up the internet | Environmental Care Zone | November 2018 |
| Jasmine | I am a graduate of the National University of Ireland Galway. I took up a PhD in zoology after majoring in marine science. I completed my Bachelor's degree and began my PhD in 2016. I am investigating harmful jellyfish species: from special cells and venom to treatments for humans and fish. | Environmental Care Zone | November 2018 |
| Karen | I work with a species called the freshwater pearl mussel, my research is aimed at understanding the quality of the rivers they live in | Environmental Care Zone | November 2018 |
| Roberto | I "buzz" with honeybees | Environmental Care Zone | November 2018 |
| William | I study how contamination can get into foods and how to stop it from happening | Environmental Care Zone | November 2018 |
| David | Genes Zone | November 2018 | |
| Fiana | I am a PhD student working on understanding how DNA makes all of our brains work differently | Genes Zone | November 2018 |
| Kieran | I study the immune system | Genes Zone | November 2018 |
| Lisa | My research is focused on breast cancer, and searching for new ways to treat this disease | Genes Zone | November 2018 |
| Oliver | Researcher and lecturer in bioethics and political philosophy | Genes Zone | November 2018 |
| Remsha Afzal | I do lab experiments to study how to control our immune cells to fight disease! | Genes Zone | November 2018 |
| Bernard | Everything to do with drugs. | Neon Zone | November 2018 |
| Maureen | I study parasites that control the behaviour of their hosts. | Neon Zone | November 2018 |
| Mossy | Physics Education Researcher | Neon Zone | November 2018 |
| Sonia Lenehan | I'm a neuroscientist and I am investigating how the brain grows in the first 2 years after birth. During these 2 years our brains grow to 90% of their adult size and my job is to find out what is happening during this time! | Neon Zone | November 2018 |
| Tiernan | Geologist, teacher, researcher | Neon Zone | November 2018 |
| Emily | I'm a biomedical engineer working on nanowires that can act like neurons! | New Materials Zone | November 2018 |
| Hugh Manning | I research nanomaterials in the Advanced Materials and Bio Engineering Research (AMBER) Centre in Trinity College Dublin! Nanomaterials are things 1000 times smaller than the width of a human hair! | New Materials Zone | November 2018 |
| Julia | Computational Chemistry | New Materials Zone | November 2018 |
| Kieran | I'm making new materials to be used in spine surgery for people with low back pain | New Materials Zone | November 2018 |
| Simone | I design and build very small structures that trap or reflect light, to work as small lasers | New Materials Zone | November 2018 |
| Triona | I work in Stryker, Co Cork in the first and biggest 3D-printing factory in the world printing hips, knees and parts for your back (spine) | New Materials Zone | November 2018 |
| Dimitar Shterionov | I make computer systems to translate between languages. This task is called Machine Translation. We use statistical models as well as models based on artificial neural networks. | Smart Data Zone | November 2018 |
| Gary Munnelly | I teach computers how to read books, diaries, letters, and other text based resources so they can help historians to study the past. | Smart Data Zone | November 2018 |
| Natalia | Smart Data Zone | November 2018 | |
| Piyush Arora | Coding, Reading Research Papers, Teaching students, Mentoring students, Learning new stuff regularly | Smart Data Zone | November 2018 |
| Sheila Castilho | I work with machine translation. I teach computers how to translate. | Smart Data Zone | November 2018 |
| Aoife Campbell | I'm a neuroscientist which means I study brains. I look at how different parts of the brain connect to one another and what happens when those connections stop working. I'm really interested in children's brains because they work differently to adult brains. | Drug Discovery Zone | November 2019 |
| Diarmuid Kenny | I work with people trying to discover new drugs to help cure disease. We work with proteins, the main builiding block of every animal, plant or microscopic organism. | Drug Discovery Zone | November 2019 |
| Frances Shiely | I teach a lot of Epidemiology. This is a Science that goes along with Public Health and it tells us about health and disease in population. So for example, promoting physical activity, tackling obesity, making sure children are vaccinated - these are all areas of Public Health. We call this population health because we talk about these activities for many many people. Epidemiology is also used in patient focused health. That is health at the individual level. So when I teach epidemiology for patient focused health, it is usually clinical trials. What do you know about clinical trials? Most people think about new drugs? A simple clinical trial is a study of two groups of patients, who are randomised (toss of a coin so it is fair) to receive the treatment (new drug) or the standard treatment (old drug). It is a fair comparison because the patients had an equal chance of receiving the new drug or the old drug. | Drug Discovery Zone | November 2019 |
| Katie Fala | I am studying bacteria, how they talk to one another using special chemical signals, and how we might be able to interrupt their conversations using new drugs in order to control problematic bacteria that can cause disease. | Drug Discovery Zone | November 2019 |
| Sergio Martin Saldana | The cells of our body behave as a big community where everybody takes care of their neighbors. When some of these cells detect that something wrong is happening, they call to the body police (immune system cells) that try to take care of the problem. Sometimes, these police cells react against healthy cells by mistake causing diseases like multiple sclerosis. My work is focused in the discovery of new treatments to avoid this overreaction and maintain the harmony in the cell community of our body. | Drug Discovery Zone | November 2019 |
| Sudhin Thampi | I am a thinker who always tinkers around the existing science to find something new and more useful to suffering people. | Drug Discovery Zone | November 2019 |
| Caitríona Sheridan | I help to plan outages on the electricity network for the coming weeks so maintenance or work can be done on the network. | Energy Zone | November 2019 |
| Janis Aleksans | I work on computer models of how the Earth's crust deforms. Because these processes are very slow and take millions of years to happen, in nature we see only the end result. Like Alps, for example. But some time ago there were no Alps, it was all flat land, and before that there was an ocean. By making mathematical models on the computer we can speed up a virtual model of, say, Alps forming, and understand in very precise detail what exactly happened that lead to the result we see nowadays. | Energy Zone | November 2019 |
| Jason Mc Guire | I spent 8 years in Australia working on air-conditioning and building energy, I left Australia to come back to Ireland to study and I'm now studying Energy Engineering and my research goes to assisting the government to make policy changes to reduce Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions. I aim to find the most economical and sustainable pathways for Ireland and I use some super complicated software to help find the best answers | Energy Zone | November 2019 |
| Jennifer Andreasson | Any problem that might be solved using technology then I can help. My job is to know all about the coolest new technologies out there and help to solve our energy crisis! | Energy Zone | November 2019 |
| Jessica Franklin | I am a geologist and I study rocks. In particular I study sandstones, which are rocks made up of millions and millions of grains of sand. I look at the chemistry of these tiny grains of sand with a very big machine! The chemistry of the sand can tell me where the sand came from. When I know where the sand came from I can imagine what ancient paths the sand travelled to get to where it is today. By doing this I can also imagine what ancient environments looked like in Ireland over 200 million years ago! | Energy Zone | November 2019 |
| Mohamed Daoud | I'm an electrical engineer. | Energy Zone | November 2019 |
| Aoife McHugh | I look at tiny bugs (microbes). I study microbes in food that can survive processing. I also study how foods impact the microbes we already have in our gut. | Food Zone | November 2019 |
| Dheeraj Rathore | I am a plant scientist based in beautiful campus of Teagasc Crop Science department in Oak Park, surrounded by plenty of greenery. My work involves field trials to perform disease screening, lab experimentation on molecular and microbial studies, and managing glasshouses. One of the important part of my work is training others on the novel scientific techniques and communicating science to all. | Food Zone | November 2019 |
| Israel Ikoyi | I am a Soil Scientist looking at important microbes in the soil. There are millions of microbes in the soil and some of them are really important in helping plants grow. My job is to understand how these microbes can help plants grow better and how farmers can give them the best conditions to do so. | Food Zone | November 2019 |
| Katie Starsmore | I'm a cow burp scientist.... I measure the amount of gas (methane) that a cow burps and figure out ways to reduce the amount of gas made by the cow. This is important because we need to understand this to improve the environment and do our bit to prevent climate change. | Food Zone | November 2019 |
| Marcello Valente | I am developing a sensor to dectect dangerous mutation in living organisms. | Food Zone | November 2019 |
| Min Yap | I'm looking at how communities of bacteria grow and interact in the dairy production environment. I want to understand how the different groups of bacteria exists with each other and affect the quality and safety of the product. | Food Zone | November 2019 |
| 3D Painting | Create 3D paintings from recycled materials | Shape the Future | November 2019 |
| Anthony Newell | In my PhD I worked on an energy storage project for surplus wind energy. Now I'm helping people use 3D printing better which can lower our environmental impact for making things. | Shape the Future | November 2019 |
| Guitar Capo | I plan to improve old designs of guitar capos which use too much metal to make and therefore aren't as sustainable as they could be. | Shape the Future | November 2019 |
| Nima Gorji | 3D printing | Shape the Future | November 2019 |
| Personalised Speakers | Shape the Future | November 2019 | |
| Ronan McCann | I work with 3D printing, looking at how to print parts using aluminium, a very sustainable material. | Shape the Future | November 2019 |
| Water Filter | Shape the Future | November 2019 | |
| Wearable Biosphere | A wearable biosphere which could be worn as a constant reminder of the delicate balance of our planet | Shape the Future | November 2019 |
| Armin Shams | Digital Transformation, from companies to cities ... | Sodium Zone | November 2019 |
| Faye Morton | I'm a scientist in a hospital. I help doctors and nurses find out what's wrong with their patients. I test their blood to see if they are healthy or sick. Sometimes patients need blood donations if they are sick so I give them the correct blood to make them feel better. | Sodium Zone | November 2019 |
| John Butler | I am experimental and computational neuroscience researcher. I use maths and computers to understand the brain. | Sodium Zone | November 2019 |
| Maria McNamara | I’m a palaeobiologist: I work on the biology of ancient creatures that lived millions of years ago. I’m interested in how fossils form, what colours ancient animals were and how birds (and dinosaurs!) evolved feathers and flight. | Sodium Zone | November 2019 |
| Sabine Giron | I work with intelligent and sensitive robots to solve today's and tomorrow's challenges - they are my favourite coworkers! | Sodium Zone | November 2019 |
| Souvik Kundu | I am doing research in Haptics, which means giving the feel of touch artificially. It means you can touch something in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality without actually touching the substance. | Sodium Zone | November 2019 |
| Amy Heather Fitzpatrick | I try to detect the winter vomiting bug in sewage and shellfish.The sewage has viruses and bacteria in it and shellfish filter the water. I use next generation sequencing to check what types of viruses are in shellfish and sewage. | Water Zone | November 2019 |
| Annette Wilson | I work with marine and environmental scientists from across Europe to communicate their research and results. | Water Zone | November 2019 |
| Ann Reen | I work in a water lab. I get to travel around & take samples of drinking water from people's houses, I get to put on wellingtons and take samples from rivers & lakes and I get to hop into the sea to take samples of bathing water-in the summer when its hot! I test the samples for bugs so that kids that go to the sea side don't get sick if they accidently swallow some sea water, and make sure that the water in your kitchen tap is safe to drink- so you don't get diarrohea. I check the rivers & lakes to make sure the fish can survive. | Water Zone | November 2019 |
| Jake Cunningham | I'm a water and electricity scientist, I work in trying to make electricity from waves in the sea and ocean. I do this by using some funky math. | Water Zone | November 2019 |
| Maxime Savatier | Water is the base of life and contains nutrients that are required for most living things (including you!) to grow, and are required by plants and algae. My job is to understand where water and nutrients flowing to the seas come from and what happens to them inside sea water, to protect our coast for the future. In fact, most of the water that flows from the land to the sea is invisible under our feets and we did not know how important this was until recently....Click on "read more" to find out why! | Water Zone | November 2019 |
| Philip Schuler | I investigate the different ways groundwater flows in "karst" to use then this understanding to simulate these flow dynamics. | Water Zone | November 2019 |
| Achim Schmalenberger | I teach and research many things related to microbiology. This includes teaching nurses in infection control or teaching food science students about food-borne pathogens. My favorite topic is environmental microbiology though. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Aengus O'Connell | Green Zone | Summer 2020 | |
| Aileen Doran | I'm a geoscientist, so I study the earth around us to figure out whats going on beneath our feet. This includes looking for ways to find new raw materials, which are crucial to moving into greener, sustainable world! | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Aimee Stapleton | When I worked as a physicist, I spent my time doing experiments in the lab. Now, as a science communicator, I try to meet as many different types of people as possible and show them how interesting science can be. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Aisling Ryan | I am a chemist in a lab. I mix different chemicals together to try and make a new medicine for cancer. When I make a new medicine I add it to some cancer cells in a dish and see if my medicine can kill the cancer. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Amy Heather Fitzpatrick | I try to detect the winter vomiting bug in sewage and shellfish.The sewage has viruses and bacteria in it and shellfish filter the water. I use next generation sequencing to check what types of viruses are in shellfish and sewage. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Andrius Buivydas | Main objects of my studies are dairy bacteria which, for example, ferment milk so we could produce yogurt. I focus on improving the properties of such bacteria so we could have better dairy products. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Anna Zakrzewska | I am a research scientist at Nokia Bell Labs. We build communication networks to connect everyone on the planet (and beyond!). My job is to automate the networks and make them more intelligent. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Anthony Newell | In my PhD I worked on an energy storage project for surplus wind energy. Now I'm helping people use 3D printing better which can lower our environmental impact for making things. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Aoife McHugh | I look at tiny bugs (microbes). I study microbes in food that can survive processing. I also study how foods impact the microbes we already have in our gut. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Aruna Chandrasekar | I investigate how we can make our energy source and use cleaner and greener. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Brian Murray | I'm a scientist that looks at how we can make the internet faster and greener in the future. I wanna find the best way to send information between your computer and the internet using light - that's called optical communications. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Caitríona Sheridan | I help to plan outages on the electricity network for the coming weeks so maintenance or work can be done on the network. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Caoimhe Daly | Green Zone | Summer 2020 | |
| Chloe Huseyin | Bacteria aren’t the only things that live in your gut! I work on some of the other stuff. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Chloe Matthews | I work with sneaky bugs, called microbes. I get to see what's in cows bellies'. My job is to understand how all these microbes change in their bellies and what ones stop the cows from getting sick. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Ciara O'Donovan | I look at the microbes from different environments such as the guts of athletes or food. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Dheeraj Rathore | I am a plant scientist based in beautiful campus of Teagasc Crop Science department in Oak Park, surrounded by plenty of greenery. My work involves field trials to perform disease screening, lab experimentation on molecular and microbial studies, and managing glasshouses. One of the important part of my work is training others on the novel scientific techniques and communicating science to all. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Dimitar Shterionov | I make computer systems to translate between languages. This task is called Machine Translation. We use statistical models as well as models based on artificial neural networks. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Eddie Sheahan | Green Zone | Summer 2020 | |
| Ehren Dixon | I am a scientist who works in a type of chemistry that uses electricity to do lots of things! I can create solid metal onto items just from liquids and see what type of gas is in the air and how much there is. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Emma Feeney | One of the things I do is looking at cheese intake, and how it impacts our nutrition and our health. I’m interested in how people taste things as well | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Enda O'Connell | I use a robot called Janus to try to find cures for different types of cancer and other diseases. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Farina Kokab | I am a scientist who talks to people to find out what they think and how they feel about something. This is important because we want to know how people feel when they are unwell, have to go to the hospital/speak with their doctor | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Fiona Freeman | I use 3D printing and nanotechnology ("aka" very small) to design new implants that can be used to fix damaged or diseased bone. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Fiona Malone | I'm an engineer and I build robots called biosimulators that behave like the human body so we can help solve medical problems and improve medical treatments for people who are sick. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Florence McCarthy | We explore chemical space and make new molecules made up of atoms connected in shapes never made before with the ultimate aim of developing drugs to treat diseases. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Francesco Floris | I am a Researcher in the Photonics Packaging Group at Tyndall National Institute. My job is to design and optimize circuits working with light. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Gail Molloy | The company I work for makes medical devices for the human body. In Galway, in the part I work in, we work on devices for the heart. These devices help people when they have a heart attack. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Gary Munnelly | I teach computers how to read books, diaries, letters, and other text based resources so they can help historians to study the past. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Gonzalo Delgado-Pando | Food science. Specifically meat science | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Graham Buckley | Green Zone | Summer 2020 | |
| Helen Griffin | Green Zone | Summer 2020 | |
| Gustavo Velasco-Hernandez | My job is to help in the creation of self-driving machines. In other words, I help those machines to "see", to know where they are and where to go, and to move without hitting people, things or themselves. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Hannah Currivan | I am a space research & development/reliability engineer, and this means I get to be up and close with space instruments for satellites!!!! | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Hazel Rooney | I work as an animal scientist and my job is to think of new feeding strategies for sows and their piglets. Sows need to eat food that will support their milk production, while piglets need food that will increase their growth. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Israel Ikoyi | I am a Soil Scientist looking at important microbes in the soil. There are millions of microbes in the soil and some of them are really important in helping plants grow. My job is to understand how these microbes can help plants grow better and how farmers can give them the best conditions to do so. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| James Collins | I'm a scientist very interested in how stress affects the gut and the brain and Im looking at the millions of bugs that live inside and on us and how they help the brain and gut work. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| James Sullivan | A mixture of research, teaching and school administration. Research is in catalysts for solar energy conversion, bio-fuels and bio-chemical production and environmental cleanup | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Jean O'Dwyer | I am an environmental scientist, so I look at things in the natural world. I am really interested in how the environment impacts our health. I study how clean our water is and how climate change will affect our lives. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Jennifer Cookman | I use a 3 metre tall microscope to see atoms, watch molecules dance and grow crystals! I study how pharmaceutical crystals grow from molecules up to crystals that would end up the tablets that we take to cure pain! | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Jen Costelloe | I am a Biomedical Engineer - I help design, develop and test medical devices to treat people with heart problems! | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Jun Lin | I study materials that can be used to make transistors, which are the most basic building blocks of computers. The goal is to make transistors smaller so that our computers can be faster and more powerful. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Karen Bacon | I am a plant scientist and I study a wide range of things relating to plants and plant ecology. I am interested in how plants respond to climate change both today and in the past. I work with modern plants and with fossils. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Katherine Benson | I am a geneticist; a gene detective! | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Kevin O' Brien | I work for a big medical device company called Becton Dickinson (BD for short), designing the electronics that go into infusion pump. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Laura Finnegan | I carry out DNA sequencing to understand the little microbes (like bugs or 'germs') that live in our bodies and in our food - especially the ones that help us to stay healthy or that make our food tasty! | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Lea Duran | I am a hydrogeologist : I study how water moves underground, starting from the rain and all the different paths a drop of water can take until it reaches a spring! That way I can also make sure our drinkable water is not polluted | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Lingli Zhou | My work is using a laser based technique to analyse minerals and rocks, in order to know how much bad and good metals the minerals have. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Louise Mc Grath | I have to design and build a teeny tiny battery (1mm or smaller) that can be very powerful, environmentally friendly and safe. These small batteries will be used to power tiny sensors for the Internet of Things. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Lucy Blennerhassett | I dig up bogs and search through them for volcanic ash from Iceland! This ash can help us understand how many big volcanic eruptions happened in the past over thousands of years. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Luis Soriano | I am a engineer working on providing solutions for respiratory diseases | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Marcello Valente | I am developing a sensor to dectect dangerous mutation in living organisms. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Maria Isabel Meza Silva | Numbers and data hide no secret from me, I am a mindreader of analytics - discovering trends and making the data speak! | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Mark Kennedy | I study the remnant cores of stars which ended their life thousands to millions of years ago. There are 3 different types of cores - white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, and tell us about how stars in the Universe evolve. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Mary Anne Ryan | I am a baby nurse who also research babies brain. Some babies are often born early and need to be in hospital for many days or weeks. I am a specialist nurse who looks after these tiny babies until they are ready for home. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Michael Carter | I'm a children's (paediatric) doctor. I treat illness and medical problems in people aged under 16. I'm interested in brain disorders like epilepsy, and I'm currently looking for ways to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Michael Nolan | Using large computers we answer some questions: (1)can we make hydrogen from water (2) use wasted co2 to make fuels (3) produce verrrrrry thin structures (1 atom thick) to make faster electronics. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Michelle Monaghan | I work in a company that makes Medical Devices that go in the human body to help sick patients.. My job is in the Quality department. I make sure that everything we make is the best to help the patients that need it. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Mike Conerney | Green Zone | Summer 2020 | |
| Min Yap | I'm looking at how communities of bacteria grow and interact in the dairy production environment. I want to understand how the different groups of bacteria exists with each other and affect the quality and safety of the product. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Nadeem Rather | Have you ever wondered how the voice you speak on your mobile phone can reach all across the world? Well, it is because of these things called Antennas. I am a researcher finding new ways of designing these antennas 🙂 | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Ngoc Nguyen | I work in a big centre for neurological disease research. My work is trying to find how a brain disease to develop and if we can interrupt that development to save patients' lives | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Niamh Faulkner | Green Zone | Summer 2020 | |
| Nina Kanti | Electronic and Computer Engineer developing mobile applications and working with new technology | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Ollie Otter | The title of my PhD thesis is "Combined simulation of waves, wind and current in laboratory basins", which is fancy language for saying I am testing a scale model of a floating wind turbine in a wave pool. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Roisin Jones | I work in a lab for a pharmaceutical company, researching new medicines and new ways to make old medicines. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Rory Ward | I'm a power engineer, who works on projects from all over the UK. I design the electricity system so that everyone can charge their phones, cook their dinners and do everything else that needs electricity. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Rosemary Josekutty Thomas | I'm a Computer Scientist researching on how to help farmers with technology. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Sarah Guerin | I use computer models and simulations to tell us things about crystals before we even make them, and to make blueprints for new crystals! Right now I focus on modelling crystals that make up a lot of the medicines we use everyday. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Sarah Mallen | I am a scientist in a lab that tests chemicals. These chemicals go into making devices that help people with heart problems. The devices we make unblock blood vessels and keep people's hearts pumping. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Simon Spichak | I'm a scientist interested in understanding how the brain works, and what goes wrong in different diseases. I want to know the role that microbes in our guts play in our brain health. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Sonia Lenehan | I'm a neuroscientist and I am investigating how the brain grows in the first 2 years after birth. During these 2 years our brains grow to 90% of their adult size and my job is to find out what is happening during this time! | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Souvik Kundu | I am doing research in Haptics, which means giving the feel of touch artificially. It means you can touch something in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality without actually touching the substance. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Srikumar Roy | I am a marine geoscientist working on natural gas hydrates, which are important because of their potential importance as a near-future clean energy resource and their role in climate. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Tiffany Slater | I am a palaeobiologist investigating how fossil feathers are preserved. I'm interested in whether or not they contain ancient proteins that can help us understand how and when dinosaurs started adorning themselves with feathers. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Tommy Hayden | My work helps mend broken hearts! We all need blood pumped around our bodies to keep us alive and well The products we make help fix the pump and pipes (i.e. heart and blood vessels) when they're not working properly | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Yashdeep Yashdeep | I am an Electronics engineer. I make electronic gadgets batteryless by using the energy around us like light and heat. I also connect simple things like bulbs, fans, plants and every other thing you see around you to the internet. | Green Zone | Summer 2020 |
| Aisling O'Connor | Technology can make farmers lives easier by shortening the length of times it takes a farmer to complete daily tasks. My job is to investigate the most useful technologies and also to develop some new tech for dairy farmers! | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Alan McGibney | I research ways technology can help people and business... such as saving energy, help blind people navigate their environment and trust in digital technologies. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Alessandro Casa | I am a data scientist so I spend most of my time with a huge amount of numbers running all over the screen of my laptop. All those numbers are telling stories, if you are able to listen and understand them. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Asaf Shnel | I work with sensors that measure the amount of water in the soil. Trying to help farmers better manage their land. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Ashish Singh | Red Zone | November 2020 | |
| Ayesha Sharif | Hi, I am a Physics researcher working to fuse very small sized particles (nanoparticles) to make them more conductive. I am using very short pulse laser which delivers energy to the nanoparticles and then it fuses them together. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Ben Couvin | Red Zone | November 2020 | |
| Bhaskar Dhariyal | I'm a computer scientist, my job is to study data coming from devices. I can tell you if someone was running correctly or not by looking at data from phones. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Boris Galkin | I am looking at ways to connect drones into the mobile phone network. If we can do this then it will allow us to control drones over the internet, which can allow us to do a lot of important things with drones we can't do yet. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Cathal Ryan | Im a PhD student trying working to keep cows healthy through Computer Science. Cows can sometimes get sick but farmers arent the best at finding out when, this is where i come in, i try to find the sick cows before the farmer. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Changhong Jin | I'm a Ph.D. student in the computer science area, however, the data I analyze comes from farms. We care about the health of the cows in order for them to produce healthy milk. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Charu Pande | I am an Electronics Engineer. I build systems using hardware and software. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Chiara Zanetti | In my work I synthesize phosphorescent molecules that are able to measure the Oxygen concentration in cells that can be useful in the studies of many diseases. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Ciara Tierney | I am a scientist working on blood clots from patients who have had a stroke. This is important as we hope to help doctors realise when a patient is going to have a stroke before it happens. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Danny Hnatyshin | I am a geologist, which means I study rocks and minerals/crystals. Geologists help paleontologists figure out how long ago the dinosaurs lived and study cool things like volcanoes. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Duncan Wallace | I work with computers and programming languages to make sense of large amounts of data. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Greta Monacelli | There are many scientific ways to describe human behaviour. I work with numbers to make them faster and more precise. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Lara Codeca | I work on smart mobility in modern cities. I'm trying to find a way to improve traffic and improve travel and commuting for everyone. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Nam Tran | I'm Electronic Engineer working at UCD. I research on how to send data reliably and securely over wireless channels. My job is to find solutions that have minimal impact on our environment. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Liudmila Khokhlova | In my work, I am mostly interested in knees. If you ever watched soccer or rugby you may know how often players have knee injuries. We are trying to help people recover faster by using smart wearable devices. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Malgorzata Dabrowska | I'm a neuroscientist, what means that I'm most interested about the brain and everything what is connected to the neurons. My job is to understand how exactly the Multiple Sclerosis in going to start. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Marcello Valente | I am developing a sensor to dectect dangerous mutation in living organisms. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Marie Culliton | I am a medical scientist. In our lab we test samples from women who are having babies to make sure that they stay healthy and that their baby will be healthy too. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Melissa Walsh | I currently help in training PhD and Post Doctoral researchers in Photonics. Photonics research has many different applications from designing probes for surgery, to self driving cars , to wire networks for wifi communications. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Mingyue Shen | Hi, I am a PhD student who is trying to smooth surfaces of 3D printed products. My project is to find an economic and effective method to smooth surfaces in an environmentally friendly way. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Mohammed Taj-Eldin | I am an electronics scientist. I help farmers to make more profit where I design electronic circuits similar to the ones inside your mobile phone but mine collect information about the soil, and transmit data to farmer's phone. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Nima Afraz | Red Zone | November 2020 | |
| Parnika Gupta | My work is related to manipulating light. I want your internet to move with the speed of light which is really fast. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Rajannya Sen | According to reports, two third of the annual deaths in the world are related to heart disease and cancers. It can be detected at an early stage by the reduced level of oxygen in tissues. I am designing an imager that will be use | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Stephen Redmond | I'm a Biomedical Engineer working at UCD. I like to make new sensors or to use existing sensors in clever ways that might help improve people's health. I'm also interested in making smarter robots with dexterous hands. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Susan Rea | My work is varied and right now I'm looking at energy and how we can both save it and use it effectively to contribute to the fight against climate change. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Suzy Whoriskey | I'm a statistician so my job is to look for patterns in data. This data could be anything! It could be who you voted for in the American election, what sport you like to play after school, what height you are or even your DNA. | Red Zone | November 2020 |
| Aileen Harnett | My PhD is looking at new ways to treat epilepsy for patients who don’t respond to currently available drugs. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Andrew McGovern | I am a 🧠brain🧠 scientist studying how diseases differently effect ♂men and ♀women 👨🔬 | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Anita Pax | My work as a food scientist studies the interaction between ingredients in dairy products so that we can help manufacturers and processors to improve their products and develop new dairy products too. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Avion Phillips | Right now I work on communicating important findings from soil science to the people who make policies. This means I work with many different kinds of people with many different jobs e.g. scientists, farm advisors,politicians. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Ciara Feely | I'm a Computer Science PhD student. I analyse marathon training data (from devices like Fitbits) to help marathon runners improve their training and reduce injury risk. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Cormac Bracken | For my research, I work on developing new ways that we can use chemistry to make drugs for sick people. This can be a brand new method for making something, or an improvement on a method which already exists. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Cyrille Thinnes | I work in Digital Health, using computers to better understand and predict how we can improve our health by, for example, tailoring our diets. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Daniela Costa | I'm trying to study the role of specific neurons in Multiple Sclerosis. Once I know what is wrong with them during the disease, I'll be able to treat them and make them as new!! | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Danielle Nader | I am a final year PhD student studying about COVID19 🦠and I am making drugs💊 to stop the virus from infecting our cells! | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Dave Healy | I'm a doctor who works in the neonatal unit looking after sick and premature babies. I'm currently doing a PhD and researching how bacteria are involved in preterm babies' health for good and for bad. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Dolores Melgar-Freire | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 | |
| Eileen Gibney | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 | |
| Erin Harris | I am an American neuroscientist who studies how stress impacts the brain - especially during adolescence 🧠 | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Gaël Lymer | I am a marine geologist. I use research ships to go at sea to get geological data that I use to study plate tectonics and the break-up of continents that form oceans, shaping the surface of the Earth. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Georgiana Ifrim | I am a computer scientist. I think of my work as problem solving with computers, a sort of puzzle that keeps me engaged and buzzing. I like that I can write computer programs that make something work better or faster. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Henry Darch | I record electrical activity in the brain to help figure out how information from lots of different brain areas might be processed during complex behaviours like anxiety, or movement. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Justine Mathoux | I am studying Epilepsy in order to find a new treatment for patient resistant to treatment. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Kate Keogh | My research is in the area of genetics in cattle, looking at how different diets and nutritional levels can affect genetic. the | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Mairead O'Connor | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 | |
| Maria Giovanna Caruso | PhD student in Neuroscience 🐭🧠🔬 I study the brain and the molecular mechanisms driving our behaviors! | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Md Kamruzzaman | My PhD is in Pharmaceutical science and technology. I make formulation to dissolve medicine in the human body more effectively. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Mohammadreza Khodashenas | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 | |
| Niamh Callinan Keenan | I work with people across the world to find out how computer science can help biology and medicine find the best cures for sick people. I also work on my own projects making computer programs for other scientists to use. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Ohood Alharbi | I am a post doctoral researcher at University College Dublin, Manager of The National Nutrition Surveillance Centre in Dublin. As part time, I am the Owner of Personalise My Diet, Nutrigenomics Consultation Business. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Paul Wynne | Senior Medical Device Reporting Specialist: I review alleged product issues made by patients and physicians regarding pacemakers to determine patient impact and reportability to government authorities. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Pawel Rulikowski | I work as a radio frequency (RF) design engineer. I design RF components so you can use your smart phone even on the Moon (I did that too!). | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Peter Milner | I work with very small LEDs (lights) which shine ultraviolet light, and then put these LEDs into tools which doctors can use to treat people. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Reabetswe Zwane | I am a computational chemistry PhD student. That means I spend my time understanding the chemistry of drugs using a computer. This is called modelling. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Removed Scientist | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 | |
| Sam Seymour | The focus of my job is to try to learn more about bacteria that live in the human gut. As many types of gut bacteria are helpful to us humans. I want to learn what kinds of things we could eat/drink to help the good ones grow! | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Shriram Patel | I am a research data analyst studying molecular interaction between Human Genes and Intestinal Bacteria in Coeliac disease. I look for patterns in the data and build model that will help predict Coeliac disease very early in life. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Vincent Emeakaroha | I teach undergraduate and master students as well as supervise final year projects and master's thesis. I am a member of the CONNECT center and research in the area of cloud computing and cybersecurity. | Magnesium Zone | November 2021 |
| Alan McGibney | I research ways technology can help people and business... such as saving energy, help blind people navigate their environment and trust in digital technologies. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Aoife Hill | During my PhD, I'm learning how to be a researcher and scientist. For my project, I study plastics that break down. Using maths, I try and predict their behaviour to help develop new products. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Arul Manikandan Natarajan | The ocean territory of Ireland is ten times bigger than the land territory. So, I am working to understand how we can make much use of it. Particularly, I am exploring fascinating aspects of seaweed. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Belinda Huerta | I study the occurrence of non-regulated chemicals in the environment and their effects in exposed organisms, including humans. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Christine Spencer | My work involves using bacteria to improve strength and stiffness of soil for engineering applications. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Dara Meehan | I work as a researcher in a Microbiology lab. My work mostly involves trying to test new types of sustainably produced foods that will be healthy for people. Before this, I worked a lot with plants, genetics and sustainability. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| David Kelly | I've just finished my PhD on breeding for animals that are more feed and environmentally efficient. I currently work as a researcher in the area of breeding for more environmentally sustainable farm animals. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Dominika Krol | I have a PhD in greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture and I currently work as a researcher in this area. The aim of my work is to help agriculture become more sustainable. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Dr. MARTIN SERRANO | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 | |
| Jamie FitzGerald | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 | |
| Min Yap | I'm looking at how communities of bacteria grow and interact in the dairy production environment. I want to understand how the different groups of bacteria exists with each other and affect the quality and safety of the product. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Nasim Soleimanian | My PhD research was related to sustainable manufacturing, and for my job I help design of new devices which are used to treat human hart. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Natasha Doyle | I completed a microbiology degree with UCC and continued on to complete my PhD study. My PhD involves researching healthy and safe bacteria which are found in yoghurts, cereal and even beer! | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Saranya Rameshkumar | Separation technologist – leading the concept of ‘Wealth from Waste’ I work with nanofilters to separate out invisible micro-solids or gaseous substances with an aim to recycle into sustainable bioplastics and clean energy | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Susan Rea | My work is varied and right now I'm looking at energy and how we can both save it and use it effectively to contribute to the fight against climate change. | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Valeria Nico | I am trying to use vibrations to power small electronic devices without using any battery...Imagine how great it would be not having to recharge your smart watch! | Sustainability Zone | November 2021 |
| Aoife OBrien | I teach engineering students and am very interested in how people learn maths. | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| asma slaimi | Circle Zone | September 2022 | |
| Claire Bergin | I design and run experiments to better understand how rain and wind effect the size of waves and how waves break. All of my experiments happen on the west coast of Ireland. | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Daniel McAleese | An actuary tries to predict the future using maths | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Emma Govan | I use maths to see how much animals eat! | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Emma O'Mahony | I work in a non-traditional actuarial role for the NTMA. I use the actuarial knowledge I built up in the past to help Trustees manage the Company’s pension scheme. | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Francisco Roldan Sanchez | I do research on artificial intelligence for robotic manipulation | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Harold Berjamin | I develop simulation tools for head trauma. | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Jennifer Loftus | I work for a life insurance company as an actuary. I use maths to calculate the chances of insurance claims happening and to make sure there is enough money set aside to pay all future claims. | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| John Butler | I am experimental and computational neuroscience researcher. I use maths and computers to understand the brain. | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Lan Yang | Circle Zone | September 2022 | |
| Maja Popovic | I use maths to process human languages (it is called Natural Language Processing /more maths/, or Computational Linguistics /more language/) | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Norma Bargary | I work with lots of scientists and companies, helping them to use their data to understand more about particular products, medicines or human behaviour. | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Orla McManamly | I work in an office on a team of actuaries, and our job is to use maths to price a product. I work mostly on the computer, with Word, Excel and R - which is a coding language. | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Sam Coote | Circle Zone | September 2022 | |
| Sean Kealey-Bennett | Circle Zone | September 2022 | |
| Suzy Whoriskey | I'm a statistician so my job is to look for patterns in data. This data could be anything! It could be who you voted for in the American election, what sport you like to play after school, what height you are or even your DNA. | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Trish O'Connell | I teach Maths & Stats (theory & using computers)to students in ATU who need these as part of their professional qualifications (Medical Scientists, Biopharmaceutical Scientists etc.) | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Yong Chen Goh | Statistics PhD Student | Circle Zone | September 2022 |
| Ahmed Zahran | Hi, my work focuses on designing multimedia systems so that everyone enjoys online services, such as video and games. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Alvaro de Medeiros | My work is to study and improve the wireless communication between robots and other elements of the industrial environment. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Anna Desmond | My project is about finding new natural medicines to treat infections in babies caused by bacteria. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Boris Galkin | I am looking at ways to connect drones into the mobile phone network. If we can do this then it will allow us to control drones over the internet, which can allow us to do a lot of important things with drones we can't do yet. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Ciara Buckley | I'm a PhD student in Polymer Engineering. My work involves 3d printing of hyaluronic acid to produce a device for nerve repair. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Cristina Cuesta Marti | I am a PhD student in the department of Anatomy and Neuroscience at University College Cork and APC Microbiome Ireland. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Declan Delaney | I work as a lecturer in a university. I teach in the school of electrical and electronic engineering and I research in engineering topics like wireless networking and Internet of Things (IoT) systems… what’s that! Ask and you might find out 😛 | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Elena Hayes | I study how different milk is around the country and see what milk is most suited to making different dairy products | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Enriqueta Garcia-Gutierrez | I work with gut microbes and how they are important for our health. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Eoin Mac Craith | Marine Geologist specialised in seabed mapping | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Hao Shi | My work is to create a functional food and test the health benefits of this food. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Hassan Hamidi | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 | |
| Hilde Koch | I am a researcher working in a laboratory. I analyse soil and rock samples for major and trace elements. Different samples have a different fingerprint. So we can put them in different groups according to their chemistry. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Ingmar Schoen | We use microscopes to study blood platelets. We want to better understand how they stop bleeding, help wound healing, or form dangerous clots. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| James Brown | I work on understanding cancer, and hopefully one day creating a new treatment for breast cancer. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Jill O'Sullivan | I'm a PhD student and my work involves analyzing data which has been generated from the different bacteria present in our gut! | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Lorin Sweeney | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 | |
| Lyndsey Moore | I am a PhD student at UCC, and I work with vaccines. Mostly, I am working to turn them into patches that don't hurt as badly as normal needles! | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Martin O'Connell | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 | |
| Md khairul hoque | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 | |
| Muhammad Farhan Khan | You might have heard about latest technology called 5G mobile networks. I am working to make your internet faster. You can vote for me too! | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Robert Forster | My research team at DCU produce sensors based on nanobiomaterials that can measure the biomarkers in blood to predict and prevent disease- think of measuring a grain of salt in an Olympic sized swimming pool! | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Rupal Srivastava | I am integrating a Smart Glove that we have developed at TUS, Athlone with a Robotic Arm for autonomous control. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Sarah McPherson | I'm a PhD student researching dairy cow and calf welfare. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Sean O'Halloran | I make and design chemicals that I can make into 3D printed plastics which help wounds heal. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Sharath Manjunath | PhD researcher in the area of Machine Learning | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Simon Sorensen | I use light to view and analyse tissue. This can help doctors detect and cure diseases. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Siobhán O'Flaherty | 👩🏻🔬 I am a peptide chemist studying for a PhD in RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin, Ireland ☘️ | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Siobhán Power | I'm a geologist. I work mainly in science education and science communication now but my research background is on tectonics, and metamorphic and igneous rocks. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Tommy Murphy | My PhD research involves theoretically analysing and designing components for photonic integrated circuits to improve their performance. These circuits use light to transfer and process information. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Vanessa Rodrigues | I used LASERs to make tiny lenses, to give electrons more energy to punch, and now for applications in biology like in a Fitbit watch. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Vincent Monchal | I'm a geologist, I study rocks, especially their chemical composition to give them an age and understand their stories. | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |
| Yuliya Semenova | I am professor at Technological University Dublin | Aluminium Zone | November 2022 |