UL Lonsdale building
The Lonsdale Building at University of Limerick
Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Fifty-three Faculty of Science and Engineering researchers have been listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists.

The researchers are recognised as being experts in their fields in the rankings produced by Stanford University in conjunction with publisher Elsevier and the SciTech Strategies. The data is collated from Scopus.

They are among the most cited and influential in their fields which include Food Science, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Physics, Engineering, and Pharmaceuticals.

 

The fifty three researchers are:

 

Michael J. ZaworotkoAlice Nongonierma
Witold KwapińskiMuhammad Daud Abdullah Asif
Richard FitzGeraldSaeed Shirazian
James GleesonAmrita Ghosal
Lionel C. BriandAnna Trubetskaya
Natalia KoptevaTrevor M. Young
Vasanth Kumar KannuchamyFarhad Garavand
Soumya MukherjeeLuís Padrela
Gary WalshEdmond Magner
Stuart HampshireMehakpreet Singh
Maurice N. CollinsWitold Kwapiński
Noel Patrick O'Dowd (RIP)John F. Forbes
V. V. RanadeTiziana Margaria
Matteo LusiElfed Lewis
George BarretoDamien Thompson
Conor T. McCarthyMichael McCarthy
Paul M. WeaverJ. S. Robinson
Catherine C. AdleyMichael J. Connelly
Brian FitzgeraldMichael J. Pomeroy (RIP)
Martin G. WilkinsonIoannis Zabetakis
Gavin Michael WalkerMichael T. Laugier
Liam BannonHarry E.A. Van den Akker
Andreas Martin GrabruckerMichael Hayes (RIP)
Michael RyanConor Ryan
Kashif Naseer QureshiKieran Hodnett
Mike HincheyJulian Ross
 Gopi Battineni