Jacqueline K. Barton,is an American chemist. She worked as a professor of chemistry at Hunter College (1980–82),and at Columbia University (1983–89) before joining the California Institute of Technology. In 1997 she became the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and from 2009 to 2019,the Norman Davidson Leadership Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech. She currently is the John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry,Emerita.
Aoibhinn NíShúilleabháin is an Irish academic,teacher,broadcaster and high-profile science communicator. She also won the Rose of Tralee contest in 2005 and toured internationally as the lead singer of an Irish traditional music band. In 2022,she was appointed to chair a national forum on biodiversity loss,presenting its report to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in April 2023,and presenting on the topic to a committee of the UN General Assembly later that month.
Susan Solomon is an American atmospheric chemist,working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 2011,Solomon joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,where she serves as the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry &Climate Science. Solomon,with her colleagues,was the first to propose the chlorofluorocarbon free radical reaction mechanism that is the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole.
Françoise Henry was a scholar of early Irish art,archaeologist,and art historian. While at University College Dublin (UCD),she founded the Department of History of European Painting in 1965,and was head until she retired in 1974.
Sheila O'Donnell is an Irish architect who co-founded the O'Donnell &Tuomey partnership in 1988. Her work has been cited as "thoughtful and inspired,rigorous and whimsical" by her Honorary Fellowship sponsor.
Eva Philbin was an Irish chemist who became the first woman president of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland.
Phyllis E. M. Clinch was an Irish botanist most recognised for her work in the field of plant viruses.
University College Dublin is a public research university in Dublin,Ireland,and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students,it is Ireland's largest university,and amongst the most prestigious universities in the country. Five Nobel Laureates are among UCD's alumni and current and former staff. Additionally,four Taoisigh and three Irish Presidents have graduated from UCD,along with one President of India.
Carmel Humphries MRIA B.Sc. M.Sc. PhD D.Sc. was an Irish zoologist,specialist in fresh water Chironomidae. She was the first female professor of zoology and head of department in Ireland,and devised a technique for the identification of chironomid flies that is still employed today.
Shelley McNamara is an Irish architect and academic. She attended University College Dublin and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Architecture. She founded Grafton Architects with Yvonne Farrell in 1978. Grafton rose to prominence in the early 2010s,specialising in stark,weighty but spacious buildings for higher education. McNamara has taught architecture at University College Dublin since 1976 and at several other universities.
Sheila Christina Tinney was an Irish mathematical physicist. Her 1941 PhD from the University of Edinburgh,completed under the supervision of Max Born in just two years,is believed to make her the first Irish-born and -raised woman to receive a doctorate in the mathematical sciences.
Jane Grimson,is an Irish computer engineer. She is Fellow Emerita and Pro-Chancellor at Trinity College Dublin.
Mary Elizabeth Daly,is an Irish historian and academic. She is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. From 2014 to 2017,she served as the President of the Royal Irish Academy.
Aoife McLysaght is an Irish geneticist and a professor in the Molecular Evolution Laboratory of the Smurfit Institute of Genetics,Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.
Niamh Shaw is an Irish scientist,engineer,STEM communicator,writer,and performer.
Judy Agnes Raper is an Australian chemical engineer and was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Wollongong. She has served as a National Science Foundation Director and led the Atomic Energy Research Establishment. She has been Dean &CEO of TEDI-London,a new engineering higher education provider since its incorporation in June,2019.
Dervilla Mitchell CBE FREng FIEI is an Irish engineer and a director and joint deputy chair of Arup Group. She led the management of the design for London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5,and as of 2019 was project director for Arup for a 2-billion dollar airport terminal development in Abu Dhabi. She is a Fellow of two national engineering academies,and the holder of an Honorary CBE.
Orla Feely is an Irish academic and professor of electronic engineering. She is currently President of University College Dublin (UCD),having previously served as Vice-President for Research,Innovation and Impact. She is also the first Irish woman elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Linda E. Doyle is an Irish academic and educator who is the 45th provost and president of Trinity College Dublin (TCD),the university's chief officer. An electrical engineer,she has had a long academic career at Trinity,from the 1990s,most recently as Professor of Engineering and the Arts,in addition to holding other management roles such as Dean of Research. She has also led one telecommunications research centre at the university,and was the founding director of another,the multi-institution organisation known as CONNECT. Doyle has worked as a member of regulatory and advisory bodies in both Ireland,on broadband network strategy,and the UK,on mobile spectrum allocation. She is or has also been a director of public outreach projects such as Science Gallery Dublin and its international network,of two non-profit art galleries,and of two university spin-off companies.
Silvia Giordani is an Italian chemist who is Professor of Nanomaterials at Dublin City University. Her research considers carbon-based functional materials for biotechnology. She was awarded a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science fellowship in 2012.
