Our people | University of Limerick

At the Bernal, our people are the lifeblood. We have created an information share internally and externally on the Bernal Neighbourhood where we celebrate our researchers, share their story to inspire others to take on the global grand challenges in health energy and the environment.

Kevin M Ryan - Institute Director

Gavin Walker - Bernal Chair

Harry Van den Akker - Bernal Chair

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Jacques Huyghe - Bernal Chair

Michael Zaworotko - Bernal Chair

Paul Weaver - Bernal Chair, Composites Cluster Lead

Ursel Bangert - Bernal Chair

Vivek Ranade - Bernal Chair

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Andreas Grabrucker - Bio Cluster Lead, Leadership Team

J.J. Leahy - Process Engineering Cluster Lead, Leadership Team

Jon O’Halloran - Leadership Team

Nanasaheb Thorat - Leadership Team

Ning Liu - Mol Nano Cluster Lead, Leadership Team

Rebecca Corbett - Leadership team

Ronan Courtney - Leadership Team

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Sarah Hayes - Leadership Team

Valeria Nico - Leadership Team

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Aaron O'Sullivan

Abhijeet Thaker

Abigail Pattenden

Adrian Hannon

Ahmad Farhadi

Ahmed Djeghadar

Ahmed Motawea

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Aisling Arthur

Aizhamal Subanbekova

Ajay Kumar

Ake Rasmuson

Alan Harvey

Aleksandra Serafin

Alessandro Pira

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Alexandra Karadimou

Alice Parkes

Alison O’Connor

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Amol Vilas Ganjare

Amrit Kumar Haldar

Andrey Bezrukov

Andrey Bondarev

Angelika Holzinger

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Aniket Chanda

Ann Katrin Sauer

Anna V. Piterina

Anne Beaucamp McLoughlin

Anne Marie Henihan

Anthony Comer

Aoife Cotter

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Aoife Lennon

Apinya Ngoipala

Arman Safdari

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Asif Raza

Aswani Kumar Bandaru

Brid O’Brien-May

Caitríona Hickey

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Caitriona Winters

Carlos Bachour

Carol Ryan

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Cathal Connolly

Catherine Adley

Catiúcia Rodrigues Matos

Chaitanya Athavale

Chiara Alessia De Benedictis

Christophe Silien

Cian Murphy

Ciara Leahy

Ciarán McHale

Colin Butler

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Colm Hehir

Conor McCarthy

Conor Slevin

Damien Thompson

Daniel Granato

Daniel O’Hearn

David Egan

David McNulty

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David Newport

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David O'Brien

David Tanner

Debobroto Sensharma

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Deepak Kumar Pandey

Deng Chenghua

Denise Demurtas

Dermot O’Hanlon

Dick Fitzgerald

Donal Killackey

Donal P. O’Brien

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Shahrzad Daghighi

Eamonn de Barra

Edmond Magner

Ehtsham U. Haq

Eibhlís O’Connor

Elizabeth Ryan

Emmet O’Reilly

Enrico Spoletti

Eoghan Cunnane

Eoin Hinchy

Eoin Moynihan

Eric Dalton

Fathima Laffir

Fernanda Zamboni

Fernando Rhen

Fionnuala O’Connell

Garry Warren

Gary Walsh

George Barreto

Gerard Sheridan

Giovanni Zucco

Gordon Armstrong

Hamid Hafizi

Hariharan Govindaraj

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Harsh Deepak Barua

Hasan Mohammad Khalid

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Hilda Fogarty

Hugh Geaney

Ibrahim Saana Aminu

Indraneel Roy Chowdhury

Ioannis Zabetakis

Irma Hourigan

Isabel Pita

Italo Pisano

Iva Kolinovic

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Jack O'Callaghan

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Jagdeep Kumar Nayak

Jakki Cooney

James Fitzgerald

James Lillis

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Jamie Guidera

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Jamie Stock

Jane Mulqueen

Janelle Stanton

Jayaram R. Pothnis

Jeff Punch

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Jennifer Cookman

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Jennifer Wilson

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Jessica Lorena Smith Osorio

Joan O’Riordan

Jodie McAvinue

John McLaughlin

John Mulcahy

John Mulvihill

Joseph Mooney

Juan Carlos Rodriguez

Julia Alvarez Malmagro

Karrina McNamara

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Ketan Madane

Kieran Drain

Kieran Hodnett

Kieran McGourty

Kim Shortall

Kyriaki Koupepidou

Kyriakos Kourousis

Laura Abril-Parreño

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Laura Foley

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Lilia Croitor

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Louise Laffan

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Louise O'Neill

Luan Trinh

Luis Padrela

Luuk van der Wielen

Mahdi Nohtani

Mahmoud Ranjbar

Manh Pham

Marco Cornago

Marcus O’Mahony

Mariagrazia Proto

Mariana Oliveira Diniz

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Marina Moraes Leite

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Marina Steiner-Browne

Marta Bergillos Ruiz

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Martin McHugh

Mary Ritter

Maryam Karimijafari

Maryam Rahmani Sangani

Matheus Vilar Mota Santos

Matteo Lusi

Matthias Vandichel

Maurice Collins

Mehakpreet Singh

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Mei Li

Mei-Yan Gao

Michael McCarthy

Michael Walsh

Micheal D. Scanlon

Michela Ottaviani

Miryam Amigo

Mohamed Gouse, Jushiddi

Mohammad Quaiyum Ansari

Mohammadjavad Zeinali

Mohini Mishra

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Muhammad Muddasar

Nandita Biswas

Naomi Bernecic

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Nasrin Ghanami Gashti

Nataly Rey

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Nathan Bourke

Navatha Miriyala

Neda Alam

Nicolas Aramouni

Nicolas, Aristokleous

Nidal Khalaf

Nilotpal Kapuria

Noel Buckley

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Noel O’Dowd

Norelee Kennedy

Orest Shardt

Orla Kelly

Patrick Cronin

Patrick Frawley

Patrick Walsh

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Pavan Rao

Pritam Khan

Rahul Patwa

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Raju Lipin

Rana Sanii

Ray O’Brien

Rebecca Forde

Robert Lynch

Rochak Mittal

Róisín Hurley

Ronan Grimes

Ronan O’Higgins

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Saheed Ojo

Saikat Bhowmick

Sakshi Hans

Sam Shabangu

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Sara Fatima

Sara Pelaez Sanchez

Sarah Guerin

Sarah Hudson

Sarah Markham

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Seamus Hickey

Sean Arkins

Sean Fair

Sergey Beloshapkin

Seyyed Saeed, Shojaee Zadeh

Shaheen Sarkar

Shalini Singh

Shane Walsh

Shasha Jin

Shayon Bhattacharya

Shaza Darwish

Shiqiang Wang

Shubham Vishnoi

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Simin Arshi

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Sinead O'Doherty

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Soumya Mukherjee

Stephanie Casilagan

Stephen Lee

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Stephen O'Regan

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Stuart Hampshire

Syed Abdul Ahad

Tadhg Kennedy

Taofik Sunmonu

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Tasfia Mostafa

Tayfun Durmaz

Temilade Adegoke

Teresa Curtin

Tewfik Soulimane

Thanusha AV

Tofail Syed

Tony Pembroke

Trevor Young

Vaishnavi Honavar

Vanessa Egan

Vasily Lebedev

Vedant Modi

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Venkatesh Sundararaman

Vidit Tiwari

Vinayakumar Gedi

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Vincenzo Oliveri

Walter Stanley

Wiktoria Brytan

Witold Kwapinski

Wynette Redington

Xia Li

Yassin H.Andaloussi

Yongliang Zhang