Dr. Maurice Collins

Biography

Dr Maurice N. Collins is a senior lecturer in Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Limerick. He is Principal Investigator (PI) at the Bernal Institute, the Health Research Institute and FI at the SFI AMBER center based in Trinity College Dublin. He leads the H2020 funded LIBRE consortium (lignin for carbon fiber), the largest consortium in biobased carbon fibre research in Europe as well as being PI on multiple national funded projects. He is currently scientific lead of the H2020 funded VIBES consortium. His expertise includes Regenerative medicine, hydrogels and biobased carbon fibre precursor materials as well as the development of 3D printable Polymers. Dr Collins has a strong track record in attracting industrially funded research projects including Mitsubishi Materials, Henkel, J&J, Pepsi etc. He has won in excess of €12 million in competitive funding with 9 years of continuous competitive EU funding (2016 - 2025). His industrial work has led to 2 licensing agreements and 9 patents filed. Coupled to this, he has authored >150 publications on Polymer Science related topics and his research has featured in various national and international media outlets. His research has been recognised through various awards including: Marie Curie Actions Award, Licencing Agreement Award, Best Journal Paper Award, Highlight Conference Paper Award, ISI highly cited award, Best oral presentations and UL Seed Funding. He is a reviewer for > 40 international Journals. He sits on the editorial board of Carbohydrate Polymers. He is proposal assessor for the Polish Academy of Science, Israeli Ministry of Science and H2020. He has chaired sessions at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), European Society for Biomaterials and World Biomaterials Congress. Maurice lectures polymer therapeutics to postgraduate students and Tissue Engineering to Undergraduates. He currently supervises 8 PhD candidates, 6 postdocs and is Course Director for the MSc in Biomedical Device Materials. He is editor of the international journal of biological macromolecules published by Elsevier. He was recently awarded the Bernal Institute senior researcher of the year award. His work to date has led to >4.5k citations with a h -index of 37.