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 | Institute | About me and my work | Zone name | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arlene O'Neill | Prof. Jonathan Coleman | I make nanosheets that are a 100,000 smaller than a single strand of hair | Space Zone | November 2012 |
| Naomi Elster | Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland (RCSI) | 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 |
| Tim Downing | NUI Galway | I work on discovering mutations linked to drug resistance in flesh-eating parasites. | Health Zone | November 2012 |
| Kevin Lomasney | Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and Department of Pharmacology, University College Cork. | 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 |
| Kate Twomey | University College Cork. | 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 |
| Jean Bourke | Trinity College Dublin Chemistry Department | 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 |
| Shane Bergin | Trinity College (which means the state (which means the tax-payer)) | I’m a nanoscientist – harnessing the super-dooper from the nitty-gritty! | Hydrogen Zone | November 2012 |
| Enda O'Connell | NUI Galway | I use a robot called Janus to work with other scientists trying to find cures for different types of cancer and other diseases. | Health Zone | November 2012 |
| Eileen Diskin | Trinity College Dublin | 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 |
| Andrew Jackson | Trinity College Dublin | 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 |
| Aggelos Zacharopoulos | University of Ulster | 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 |
| Paul Higgins | Astrophysics Research Group / Trinity College Dublin. Most of my funding comes from the European Space Agency and European Union. | 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 |
| 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 | |
| David McKeown | University College Dublin | I work on ways of moving spacecraft around in space. It is all lasers and rockets *pew* *pew* | Space Zone | November 2012 |
| Colin Johnston | Armagh Planetarium | I talk about space and other cool stuff. | Space Zone | November 2012 |
| Jessamyn Fairfield | Trinity College Dublin | I’m a nanoscientist, so I take nanomaterials and apply light and electric fields to see what happens. | Nanotechnology Zone | November 2013 |
| Angela Stevenson | Trinity College Dublin | 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 |
| Sive Finlay | The Zoology Department in Trinity College. My PhD research is funded by a scholarship from the Irish Research Council | 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 |
| Michael Nolan | Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork | Using large computers we simulate the properties of new, as yet unknown materials, to predict if they can be used in the production of hydrogen or other fuels. | Lithium Zone | November 2013 |
| Emma Cahill | Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI University | 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 |
| Ciara Keane | Trinity College Dublin | I look at the fight between immune cells & infectious diseases | Lithium Zone | November 2013 |
| Sinead Cullen | Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, DCU and CRANN, TCD | My work involves making new biological tests to try diagnose one of the worlds biggest killers, heart disease. | Nanotechnology Zone | November 2013 |
| colm bracken | N.U.I. Maynooth and European Space Agency (ESA). | 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 |
| Eleanor Holmes | Trinity College Dublin | I make and test electronic devices built from graphene to probe the properties of this century’s “Wonder Material” | Nanotechnology Zone | November 2013 |
| Christian Wirtz | Officially I am not employed as I am a student. Realistically I get a stipend (pay) by the School of Chemistry and CRANN in Trinity College. | 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 |
| Adam Murphy | Dublin City University | 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 |
| Stephen Scully | NUI Maynooth | Development of new telescopes for the European Space Agency | 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 | |
| Joseph Roche | Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin | 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 |
| Eoin O Colgain | Oviedo University, Asturias, Spain | I work on supergravity theories, essentially attempts to unify gravity with other forces. | Space Zone | November 2013 |
| Karen McCarthy | University College Cork | My work is all about about tiny compartments inside bacteria, which work like little factories – meaning there’s huge potential! | Helium Zone | November 2013 |
| Gabriele De Chiara | Queen’s University Belfast | Schroedinger’s cat, quantum teleportation and other weird things of the quantum universe | Helium Zone | November 2013 |
| Cathal Cummins | University of Limerick | I am an applied mathematician and I solve all sorts of physics problems using maths. | Lithium Zone | November 2013 |
| Maria McNamara | Helium Zone | November 2013 | ||
| Shane Mc Guinness | Trinity College Dublin | 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 |
| Chloe Kinsella | University College Dublin | 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 | National University of Ireland Galway | 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 |
| Nitheen Kaperi | Prof.Sylvia Draper, School of Chemistry,Trinity College Dublin | Designing molecules towards a smarter tomorrow. | Sustainability Zone | November 2014 |
| James Sullivan | UCD | A mixture of research, teaching and school administration. | Sustainability Zone | November 2014 |
| George Dowson | University of Sheffield, Peter Styring | I’m a chemist working on ways to make our future fuels more environmentally friendly and sustainable. | Sustainability Zone | November 2014 |
| Francesca Paradisi | UCD | The world of extremophilic organisms is fascinating, they can help solving some of our industrial problems without much effort! | Sustainability Zone | November 2014 |
| Ahmed Osman | professor David Rooney & Dr.Jillian Thompson | PhD Student, in Green Chemistry. I am working in the area of production of (New) and (Environment Friend) fuel | Sustainability Zone | November 2014 |
| Sean Kelly | Trinity College Dublin fund my research | 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 |
| Ciarán O'Brien | University College Cork. Specifically, a Science Foundation Ireland grant from the Alimentary & Pharmabiotic Centre of UCC. | 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 | Paris Observatory | I study explosions in the sun’s atmosphere and how these affect technology at Earth. | Boron Zone | November 2014 |
| Lydia Bach | Queen’s University Belfast | 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 | University of Ulster | As a developmental psychologist I carry out experiments to work how kids think and learn. | Boron Zone | November 2014 |
| Áine Broderick | National University of Ireland, Galway but I am funded by the Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland | I look at indoor air quality before and after people make their house warmer. | Boron Zone | November 2014 |
| Colin Johnston | Armagh Planetarium | I explain the amazing worlds of astronomy and space sciences to everyone and anyone. | Beryllium Zone | November 2014 |
| John Wenger | University College Cork | I teach chemistry at university and also do research on air pollution and climate change. | Beryllium Zone | November 2014 |
| Kevin Motherway | Environmental Protection Agency | 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 |
| Anthea Lacchia | Trinity College Dublin | I hunt extinct squid-like creatures preserved in rocks and give them funny-sounding Latin names. | Evolution Zone | November 2014 |
| Tríona O'Connell | Dublin City University | I study the sugars on the surface cells and how they change as a cell dies | Beryllium Zone | November 2014 |
| Shikha Sharma | Dublin City University | 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 |
| Pierre Casaubielh | MaREI – UCC (Beaufort facilities), www.marei.ie | 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 |
| 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 | |
| Andrew Quigley | Waterford Institute of Technology | Finding the amount of vitamins and fatty acids in milk using analytical chemistry | Food Science Zone | November 2015 |
| Dilip Rai | Teagasc – Irish Food and Development Authority | Structure-Function of health benefitting molecules in our food. | Food Science Zone | November 2015 |
| Emma Feeney | UCD (University College Dublin) | 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 | University College Dublin | 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 | Teagasc | Working on ways to make meat and meat products healthier and tastier | Food Science Zone | November 2015 |
| Micki Mitchell | Tyndall /UCC | I diagnose diseases using lazer light | Nanoscience Zone | November 2015 |
| Sinead Balgobin | The University of Manchester | I’m trying to make new reactions, so that we have new (hopefully better) ways of making medicines. | Drug Synthesis | November 2015 |
| Neil Day | I work with Genzyme, A Sanofi Company | I ensure that we have enough manufacturing knowledge about how medicines or synthesised and formulated | Drug Synthesis | November 2015 |
| Mark Collins | Almac Group | I work in Pharmaceuticals, from early stage development to advanced clinical trials! | Drug Synthesis | November 2015 |
| Florence McCarthy | University College Cork | We make new heterocycles to arrest cell cycles with the ultimate aim of developing drugs to treat diseases where the cell cycle is out of kilter. | Drug Synthesis | November 2015 |
| Anne Moore | UCC | My passion is to make vaccines that work and prevent children getting sick or dying from infectious diseases. | Drug Synthesis | November 2015 |
| Leona Mc Girr | Queen’s University | Nanoscience Zone | November 2015 | |
| Claire O'Connell | School of Physics, Dublin City University. | 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 |
| Anil Jain | Tyndall National Institute, Cork | 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 |
| Aisling Kerr | UCD | I fire lasers at nanosized particles to see how they react | Nanoscience Zone | November 2015 |
| Uday Bangavadi | Cork Institute of Technology | The invisible Light which makes you see the world. | Nitrogen Zone | November 2015 |
| Ricardo Segurado | University College Dublin (School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science) | I use maths to work out how things make you healthy or give you diseases | Nitrogen Zone | November 2015 |
| Chloe Huseyin | APC Microbiome Institute, UCC | Bacteria aren’t the only things that live in your gut! I work on some of the other stuff. | Nitrogen Zone | November 2015 |
| Caitriona Maher | Farming Zone | November 2016 | ||
| Catherine Keena | Farming Zone | November 2016 | ||
| Dara Stanley | Farming Zone | November 2016 | ||
| Alan Matthews | Farming Zone | November 2016 | ||
| Erin Jo Tiedeken | Farming Zone | November 2016 | ||
| Laura Devaney | Farming Zone | November 2016 | ||
| Ronan Byrne | Farming Zone | November 2016 |