Trinity Monday 2019 - Fellows and Scholars

• Two Honorary Fellows
• Five Professorial Fellows
• Fifteen New Fellows
• Fifty Eight New Scholars

Trinity College Dublin was founded as a corporation consisting of the Provost, the Fellows and the Scholars. Scholars are elected annually in various subjects on the result of an examination held in Trinity term. Scholarship or research achievement of a high order is the primary qualification for Fellowship, coupled with evidence of the candidate's contribution to the academic life of the College and an effective record in teaching.

Traditionally, the election of new Fellows and Scholars is announced by the Provost on Trinity Monday (29 April 2019) at 10.00 a.m. from the steps of the Public Theatre. Two Honorary Fellows, Five Professorial Fellows, Fifteen New Fellows and Fifty Eight New Scholars were elected this morning.

Honorary Fellowship

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN SECTION 11 OF THE CHAPTER ON THE FELLOWS IN THE 2010 CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN ELECTED TO HONORARY FELLOWSHIP:

• The Honorable Mrs Justice Susan Denham
• Mr Peter Fox

The Honorable Mrs Justice Susan Denham

Susan Gageby Denham is a Law graduate of Trinity College Dublin. After attending The King’s Inns, Dublin, and Columbia University, New York, she commenced practice on the Midland Circuit and took silk in 1987. In 1991 she became a judge of the High Court and in 1992 was appointed the first women to the Supreme Court. In 2011 she was the first woman to become Chief Justice of Ireland (2011-2017). She chaired a series of commissions and working groups which provided ground work for improving the third branch of government, e.g. the Courts Service (established 1999), the Court of Appeal (established 2014). Other recommendations have yet to come to fruition e.g. a Judicial Council, a Sentencing Committee. She has a deep interest in the European Union and it’s judicial institutions, was involved in the establishment of the European Network of the Councils for the Judiciary, serving on its board, and was President of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union (2015-2016). She has a deep interest in education, having being Pro-Chancellor of this University (1995-2010) and is an active member in the Bar of Ireland’s Denham Fellowship.

Mr Peter Fox

Peter Fox was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, and read German and French at King’s College London. In 1979 he moved to Ireland on his appointment as the Deputy Librarian at Trinity College Dublin and subsequently became Trinity’s Librarian and College Archivist. He oversaw the building of the Hamilton (Science) Library and the remodelling of the Old Library to create the present exhibition space and Book of Kells Treasury. He edited Treasures of the Library: Trinity College Dublin and was closely involved with Faksimile Verlag Luzern in the production of the Book of Kells fine-art facsimile, for which he edited the commentary volume. In 1994 he moved to Cambridge as the University Librarian and Fellow of Selwyn College. He was elected Vice-President of LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche) and served on the committee advising the UK government on extending legal deposit to cover electronic publications; the resulting legislation covers Trinity College as well as UK libraries. After his retirement in 2009 he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship in the Trinity Long Room Hub to work on the history of the College Library and in 2014 his book Trinity College Library Dublin: a history was published.

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Professorial Fellowship

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN SECTION 7 OF THE CHAPTER ON THE FELLOWS IN THE 2010 CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO PROFESSORIAL FELLOWSHIP:

• Anne-Marie Brady (Professor)
• Michael Cronin (Professor)
• Maeve Lowery (Professor)
• Jennifer McElwain (Professor)
• Mark Cunningham (Professor)

Anne-Marie Brady (Professor)

Professor Anne-Marie Brady is Chair Nursing & Chronic Illness & Head of the School of Nursing & Midwifery at Trinity College Dublin. She is a principal investigator with and former director of Trinity Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation. A Registered Nurse with over 30 years of clinical practice, education and research experience in nursing and health care management, she has extensive experience working in health care systems in United Kingdom and USA and has gained significant understanding of health service delivery issues in both the Irish and International context. Her work is largely in the sphere of implementation science and in the development of healthcare systems, quality improvement and workforce development. The focus of her research is on producing and evaluating complex interventions and innovations in care delivery for people who live with chronic illness. She has a particular interest in meeting the challenge to promote integration in healthcare and to incorporate patient reported outcomes/experiences in research.

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Michael Cronin (Professor)

Michael Cronin is 1776 Professor of French and Director of the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation in Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages and Identity (Cork University Press, 1996); Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation (Cork University Press, 2000); Translation and Globalization (London, Routledge, 2003). Time Tracks: Scenes from the Irish Everyday (Dublin, New Island); Irish in the New Century/An Ghaeilge san Aois Nua (Dublin, Cois Life, 2005), Translation and Identity (Routledge, 2006); The Barrytown Trilogy (Cork University Press: Ireland into Film series, 2007); Translation goes to the Movies (Routledge 2009), The Expanding World: Towards a Politics of Microspection (Zero Books, 2012), Translation in the Digital Age (Routledge 2013), Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene (Routledge 2017). He is an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy, the Academia Europaea and an Officer in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

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Maeve Lowery (Professor)

Maeve Lowery is Professor of Translational Cancer Medicine at TCD and a consultant medical oncologist at St James Hospital. She is clinical research lead for the Trinity St James Cancer Institute. Prior to joining Trinity Prof Lowery was a consultant medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where she completed an advanced fellowship in gastrointestinal oncology. She specialises in the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancers. Her research focuses on preclinical and clinical studies of novel therapeutics for gastric, pancreatic and liver cancers. Her research has been funded by an NIH RO1 grant in addition to awards from The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation and The Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund.

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Jennifer McElwain (Professor)

Jennifer (Jenny) McElwain holds the 1711 Chair of Botany in the School of Natural Sciences. She is currently Head of Botany within the School. Over the past 20 years her research and teaching have focused on the development and use of palaeobotanical methods (proxies) that use fossil plants to reconstruct the evolution of Earth's atmospheric composition and climate on multimillion year timescales. Her research team use both fossil plants and modern experimentation to investigate how fluctuations in atmospheric composition and climate have influenced plant evolution and ecology throughout Earth history. Her research programme has been successfully funded through both national and international grants and awards including Science Foundation Ireland, Irish Research Council, European Research Council, US National Science Foundation, National Geographic and Marie Curie. She was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in June 2017. She has received numerous research awards including the President's Medal of the Palaeontological Society in 2017 and Excellence in EU research award by the President of Ireland in 2012. She has published over 100 internationally peer reviewed publication and two editions of a well-regarded textbook The Evolution of Plants, Oxford University Press. She is a board member of the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice and Chair of the Royal Irish Academy Committee on Climate Change and Environmental Science. Before joining TCD in 2017, she was an Associate Professor/Professor at University College Dublin for 11 years, a curator of fossil plants at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago (2000-2006) and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield, UK (2003-2006). She graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BA Botany in 1993 and from Royal Holloway University of London with a PhD in 1997.

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Mark Cunningham (Professor)

Professor Mark Cunningham is the Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of Neurophysiology of Epilepsy at Trinity College Dublin. He uses electrophysiology to study the mechanisms by which neuronal microcircuits generate organised electrical activity in the brain. He has a particular interest in understanding how pathological electrical activity is generated by the epileptic brain and how this can help develop better treatments for epilepsy. After reading Physiology at Queen’s University Belfast, he received a PhD in Physiology from Bristol University. He then undertook post-doctoral positions at Bristol University, University of Leeds, Heidelberg University and Newcastle University. Before joining Trinity, Professor Cunningham held a Professorship in Neuronal Dynamics at the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University. His research has been funded by the BBSRC, MRC, Wellcome Trust, Epilepsy Research UK, Action of Hearing Loss, Hadwen Trust, Innovate UK, Wolfson Foundation and The Royal Society. He has also had significant funding from a number of global pharmaceutical companies. Professor Cunningham currently sits on the Biomedical Resource and Technology Development Committee at the Wellcome Trust. He is a member of the Physiological Society and the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE). He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications.

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Fellowship

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN SECTION 7 OF THE CHAPTER ON THE FELLOWS IN THE 2010 CONSOLIDATED STATUTES,THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO FELLOWSHIP:

• Maeve Caldwell (Professor In)
• Paul Coughlan (Professor In)
• Quentin Crowley (Associate Professor)
• Martine Cuypers (Assistant Professor)
• Pádraig de Paor (Assistant Professor)
• Clare Kelly (Assistant Professor)
• Amir Khan (Associate Professor)
• Rocco Lupoi (Assistant Professor)
• Gerard McHugh (Associate Professor)
• Ciaran O'Neill (Assistant Professor)
• David O'Shaughnessy (Associate Professor)
• Declan O'Sullivan (Associate Professor)
• Jacintha O'Sullivan (Professor In)
• Andrei Parnachev (Assistant Professor)
• Fáinche Ryan (Assistant Professor)

Maeve Caldwell (Professor In)

Maeve Caldwell is Professor in Neuroscience and Head of the Discipline of Physiology in the School of Medicine. She obtained her BSc from University College Dublin and her PhD from the Pharmacology Dept, National University of Ireland, Galway. Following a post Doc at Cambridge University she was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. She then moved to the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at the University of Bristol as a Reader in Stem Cell Biology and remained there for six years until her appointment to Trinity. Her research interests are in the field of neurological disease particularly Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. She has a specialist interest in modelling both these diseases using relevant neuronal and glial populations derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells.

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Paul Coughlan (Professor In)

Paul Coughlan is Professor in Operations Management at Trinity Business School. His research explores collaborative strategic improvement of operations through network action learning. His fellow researchers are in different domains and in practice, both nationally and internationally. He has contributed actively to EU-funded research projects exploring manufacturing improvement, innovation in food, and environmental sustainability of water distribution. He brings to this research a questioning, interventionist and reflective approach which combines action research, operations management and innovation research. He has been awarded a Provost’s Teaching Award in Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Business School Teaching and Research Excellence Awards, Honorary Fellowship of the European Operations Management Association, and Honorary Membership of the Continuous Innovation Network. He is a past President of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.

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Quentin Crowley (Associate Professor)

Quentin Crowley is an Associate Professor in the School of Natural Sciences. His research investigates environmental change over a range of temporal scales. He has studied evolution of early Earth’s atmosphere from Mesoarchean paleosols, geochemical archives of deep oceans from Holocene Cold-Water corals, and distribution of radon in the contemporary environment highlighting its impact on human health. He completed a PhD in geology in NUIG in 1997, before moving to the UK as an EU TMR Post-Doctoral Fellow at Keele University, researching Palaeozoic amalgamation of Central Europe. He subsequently held a position in isotope geochemistry and geochronology with the UK Natural Environment Research Council. In 2010 he returned to Ireland, to TCD, and was appointed as Ussher Lecturer in Isotopes and the Environment in 2012. He is academic lead for Climate-KIC at TCD, funded investigator with the SFI research centre iCRAG, and Director of the TCD Centre for the Environment.

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Martine Cuypers (Assistant Professor)

Martine Cuypers is an Assistant Professor in Greek. She joined Trinity’s Department of Classics in 2005 after graduating with a Ph.D. from Leiden University and working as a lecturer and researcher in Hamburg, Leiden, Groningen, Chicago and Washington DC. Her research focuses on epic poetry and the Greek literature of the Hellenistic period and Roman and Byzantine Empires, when Greek was the lingua franca of the eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and migration and interaction with other cultures redefined Hellenicity as a cultural identity. Martine’s publications include the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Hellenistic Literature, The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry and other volumes and articles. She contributes to the research themes Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures and Identities in Transformation, has interests in comparative literature, literary translation and drama, and chairs the Junior and Senior Cycle Classics development groups of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment.

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Padraig de Paor (Assistant Professor)

Padraig de Paor is an Assistant Professor of Irish at Trinity College Dublin and has established himself as one of the leading intellectuals and literary critics working in the Irish language. His first monograph Tionscnamh Filíochta Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (An Clóchomhar) was published in 1997 and explores the poetry of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Na Buachaillí Dána: Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Gabriel Rosenstock agus ról comhaimseartha an fhile sa Ghaeilge (An Clóchomhar) was published in 2006 and remains the sole monograph on either Cathal Ó Searcaigh or Gabriel Rosenstock. Áille na h-áille : gnéithe de choincheap na h-íobartha (Coiscéim 2013) is a study of beauty and pain in the poetry of the Paris-based poet Derry O’Sullivan. He has a special interest in the philosophy and ethics of the literature. He teaches courses on all aspects of the Irish language: the short story, the novel, the autobiography, the poetry, the drama and the literary translations.

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Clare Kelly (Assistant Professor)

Clare Kelly graduated from Trinity with her BA in 2002 and PhD in 2006 (Psychology). She spent the next nine years at New York University School of Medicine, where she made key contributions to the field of functional connectomics, a network-based technique that examines patterns of synchronised brain activity to provide a comprehensive, non-invasive map of brain circuitry. Her work includes seminal demonstrations of the clinical, developmental, and translational utility of functional connectomics for our understanding of healthy and disordered brain function. For the past two years (2017, 2018), Clare has been listed as one of Clarivate Analytics' Highly Cited Researchers, ranking in the top 1% of most-cited scientists in the field of Neuroscience and Behaviour. In 2015, Clare left her tenure-track Assistant Professorship at NYU to return to Trinity as an Ussher Assistant Professor of Functional Neuroimaging, working at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), the School of Psychology, and Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine. Her current work uses translational brain imaging approaches to better understand, diagnose, and treat psychiatric conditions such as depression and Autism by tracing the origins of these conditions in the developing brain.

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Amir Khan (Associate Professor)

Amir Khan is an Associate Professor in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology. He uses X-rays to build 3-dimensional models of proteins and to understand the molecular basis for cell signaling. He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Alberta (Canada), and subsequently performed post-doctoral work at Harvard University and Institut Curie (Paris). He has published over 50 papers, and his studies have provided insight into viral evasion of the immune response, how cargo moves inside of living cells, and the mechanism of human gastric enzymes. He is currently interested in the molecular basis for inherited forms of Parkinson’s disease.

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Rocco Lupoi (Assistant Professor)

Rocco Lupoi was appointed Assistant Professor within the School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, in July 2012; in 2013 he was awarded of a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship. He is a mechanical engineer by background, obtaining an MEng degree from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in July 2004. After being awarded of a PhD degree in October 2008 (University of Bath, UK), he was appointed Research Associate in Cambridge University (UK) to explore innovative coatings and additive processes. He is a recognized expert of Cold Spray and other deposition methods. He is a major contributor in the field, with high-rank publications, patents applications, collaborations with industry. Dr. Lupoi in Trinity is exploring new manufacturing processes; he is the lead PI of a large research project in this topic funded by the European Space Agency. He is a Funded Investigator of AMBER and I-Form which are SFI research centres.

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Gerard McHugh (Associate Professor)

Gerard McHugh is an Associate Professor in Accounting in Trinity Business School, and the College’s Dean of Development. He qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant with the Dublin office of Deloitte, and subsequently he earned his masters and doctoral degrees from the Universities of Sheffield and Loughborough respectively. From 2001 through 2011, he was Head of Trinity Business School. Gerard’s primary teaching and research interests are in field of financial analysis and corporate financial reporting. The author of two books on financial analysis and reporting, he has published widely on these topics in the research literature. More recently, he has turned his attention to the challenges of climate change – in particular to examining the responsibility that must rest with businesses and their management to take action to limit carbon emissions.

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Ciaran O'Neill (Assistant Professor)

Ciaran O’Neill is Ussher Assistant Professor in Nineteenth Century History at Trinity College Dublin since 2011. He completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool, and was the GOI Senior Scholar at Hertford College, University of Oxford in 2010. Dr O'Neill’s work is at the intersection of cultural and social history, literature and public history. He has published widely on elites and transnational Irish history, with an award-winning book Catholics of Consequence: Transnational Education, Social Mobility and the Irish Catholic Elite (Oxford University Press, 2014, 2016) augmenting an earlier edited collection Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century (FCP, 2013). Recent work appears in in Eire-Ireland, Gender & History, The Public Historian, and Historical Research, as well as the Cambridge History of Ireland (2018), and the Cambridge Social History of Ireland (2017). Dr O’Neill has held research fellowships at the University of Notre Dame, Boston College, SMU Halifax, and was a Marie Curie Sklodowska Fellow at the University of Sao Paulo. He has proudly served as Community Liaison Officer for Trinity since 2017.

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David O'Shaughnessy (Associate Professor)

David O’Shaughnessy is an Associate Professor in the School of English. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, NUI Galway, and the University of Oxford. His research is on eighteenth-century literature, particularly theatre. He is the author of William Godwin and the Theatre (2010) and a complementary critical edition The Plays of William Godwin (2010). Most recently, he co-edited The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith (2018). Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740–1820, a volume of essays he edited, is forthcoming in 2019. His current research is on theatre censorship, the history play of the eighteenth century, and the Irish Enlightenment; he is also one of the general editors of a new 8-volume edition of The Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith. He is the recipient of a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (2013–17) and a Marie Curie Global Fellowship (2017–19).

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Declan O'Sullivan (Associate Professor)

Declan O’Sullivan received his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1988 from Trinity College Dublin. After working as a research scientist for Broadcom Eireann and IONA Technologies, he re-joined Trinity in 2001, where he received his Ph.D. in 2006. In 2012, he was promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, in which he currently holds the roles of Director of Research and Deputy Head of School. In college, he is also Academic Lead for the new Trinity Electives programme. Declan is a co-applicant and principal investigator in the SFI ADAPT Research Centre for Digital Content Technology since 2015. Declan is recognised internationally for his research on the mapping processes required (using AI knowledge graph techniques) to extract, transform and integrate data to enable intelligent processing by applications and systems. He has authored over 200 scientific peer-reviewed papers and international journal articles. Declan has been awarded €8.8M in competitive funding for his research (as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator) from National and European funding agencies.

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Jacintha O'Sullivan (Professor In)

Jacintha O'Sullivan is a Professor in Translational Oncology, based at the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI), Trinity College Dublin, St. James’s Hospital. She is the Director of the MSc. in Translational Oncology, Education lead for the Trinity, St. James’s Cancer Institute and the Education and Outreach Coordinator in TTMI. She directs a translational gastrointestinal (GI) research team where the patient is the centre focus of all studies. She is internationally recognised for her achievements and advancements in the area of Cancer Theranostics; developing new diagnostic platforms and novel therapeutics that can benefit cancer patients and those with inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases. She has graduated a large number of Ph.D. and MD students and is passionate about career mentoring for trainees. She has published many high impact papers and patents which drive the innovation and commercialisation aspects to her translational cancer research programme. The outputs of her work will benefit patient care, treatment and management for gastrointestinal diseased patients.

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Andrei Parnachev (Assistant Professor)

Andrei Parnachev is a theoretical physicist, who joined the School of Mathematics in 2014. He graduated with an M.Sc. degree in Physics from Novosibirsk State University and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining Trinity he worked at Rutgers University, Stony Brook University, University of Barcelona and Leiden University. His area of expertise is quantum field theory, quantum gravity and string theory. The main focus of his research is holography, the correspondence between strongly coupled quantum field theories and classical gravitational theories. He is presently working on understanding the detailed structure of holography using the tools of conformal field theory.

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Fáinche Ryan (Assistant Professor)

Fáinche Ryan is an Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Loyola Institute in the School of Religion. She completed her doctorate at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, Rome and joined the staff of Trinity College Dublin in 2013. She was President of the Irish Theological Association from 2012-2017 and is currently Chair of the European Society of Catholic Theology (Irish Section). Dr Ryan’s research focuses on the theology of Thomas Aquinas, issues of leadership in church, and the question of truth-telling in society. She has published in these areas in leading international peer-reviewed journals. Her books include Formation in Holiness. Thomas Aquinas on Sacra doctrina, (Peeters, Leuven 2007), The Eucharist: What do we believe? (Columba Press, Dublin, 2012) and forthcoming The Church in Pluralist Society: Social and Political Roles, (Notre Dame University Press, 2019). In 2018 she co-authored a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) entitled The Book of Kells: Exploring an Irish Medieval Masterpiece.

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Scholarship

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO SCHOLARSHIP 2019: