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Meet the Team

The STAM Research Group consists of a multi-disciplinary team based at the Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering focused on developing and implementing Manufacturing Innovation.

Principal Investigators

• Dr. Garret O'DonnellPrincipal Investigator Dr. Garret O Donnell is a graduate of the Dublin Institute of Technology, University of Dublin and NUI Dublin and has been a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering in Trinity College Dublin since 2005.
• Dr. Rocco LupoiPrincipal Investigator Dr. Lupoi was appointed Assistant Professor within the Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering Department, Trinity College Dublin, in July 2012; the year after he was awarded of a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship.
• Dr. Daniel TrimblePrincipal Investigator Dr. Daniel Trimble was appointed Assistant Professor within the department of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin in September 2015. From 2008 to 2011, he completed his PhD at Trinity College.
• Dr. Shuo YinPrincipal Investigator Dr. Shuo Yin was appointed Assistant Professor within the Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering in January 2019. His current research interests are mainly focusing on additive manufacturing processes, including cold spraying, selective laser melting and digital light processing.

Associate Principal Investigators

• Mr Kevin KellyAssociate Assistant Professor Kelly has research interests in Robotics, Design Innovation, Engineering Education, Manufacturing and Design, Machining Process Modelling, Surface Generation processes and Tool Condition Monitoring.
• Dr. Shaun McFaddenAssociate Adjunct Assistant Professor McFadden's major research interest relates to the understanding and application of material science that underpins manufacturing processes.
• Dr. Chiara LevaAssociate Dr. Leva is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Innovative Human systems in Trinity College Dublin. Her area of expertise is Human factors and Safety Management Systems, and she is a lecturer in DIT within this field.

Research Fellows

Name	Area	Email
Dr. Mark Culleton [1]	Additive Manufacturing - Industry 4.0	mark.culleton@tcd.ie
Dr. Marios Kazasidis [2]	Additive Manufacturing	kazaside@tcd.ie
Dr. William Abbott [2]	Additive Manufacturing	abbottw@tcd.ie
Dr. Xingchen Yan [6]	Additive Manufacturing	TBC
Dr. Michael Cullinan [1]	Industry 4.0 test automation	CullinMF@tcd.ie
Dr. Paul Dunne [1]	DTIF lead	DunneP16@tcd.ie
Dr. Luis Romeral [1]	Precision Finishing	romerall@tcd.ie
Dr. Mansur Ahmed [2]	Additive Manufacturing	MAAHMED@tcd.ie

PhD Students

Name	Area	Email
Luke Dowling [3]	Additive Manufacturing	dowlinlu@tcd.ie
Harry Shipley [3]	Additive Manufacturing	shipleyh@tcd.ie
Bobby Gillham [2]	Additive Manufacturing	gillhamb@tcd.ie
Tom McKenna [3]	Additive Manufacturing	mckennto@tcd.ie
Ningsong Fan [6]	Additive Manufacturing	nsfan@tcd.ie
Shun Lu [6]	Additive Manufacturing	lus3@tcd.ie
Shaocong Qin [6]	CFD Simulation for AM	qins@tcd.ie
Zhongyu Wang [6]	FE Simulation for AM	wangz10@tcd.ie
JanMell Dugenio [2]	Additive Manufacturing	dugenioj@tcd.ie
Pengfei Yu [2]	Additive Manufacturing	yup1@tcd.ie
Cian Conry [1]	Machine Learning in Advanced Manufacturing	conryc@tcd.ie
Daniel Tobin [3]	Meta-materials characterisation	dtobin@tcd.ie

Research Engineers

Name	Area	Email
Jonathan Cassidy [2]	Additive Manufacturing	cassidjo@tcd.ie
Sarah Kelehan [1]	Industry 4.0 automated test	kelehasa@tcd.ie
David Smith [1]	DTIF precision finishing	smithd12@tcd.ie

Taught Masters Projects - MAI 2020/21

Name	Project
Jaime Castellanos [2]	Low pressure cold spray nozzle optimized design for copper deposition
Niall Cronin [3]	Characterisation of 3D printed Auxetic Mechanical Metamaterials
Aidan Healy [6]	Biological study on 3D-printed lattice tricalcium phosphate
Niall Horan [6]	Additive manufacture of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) by cold spray
David Kelly [3]	Metal 3D Printing of Ti 6Al 4V for the purpose of orthopaedic implants
Hannah McMullin [1]	Optimisation of laser cleaning for advanced manufacturing applications
Adam O'Halloran [1]	Using machine learning for inspection of surfaces in medical device manufacturing
Darren Reilly [3]	Force Generation in Friction Stir Spot Welding
Arnoldas Sasnauskas [2]	3D Printing of high precision electrically conductive micro tracks
David Simonian [2]	3D Printing of high sensitivity strain sensors using 2d material

Alumni

Graduated PhD Students

Name	Date of Award	Current Position
Dr. Paul Harris	2011 [1]	MCRF UC Davis - US
Dr. Brian Donohue	2011 [1]	Industry - Ireland
Dr. Andrea Bareggi	2012 [1]	Research - France
Dr. Daniel Trimble	2013 [1]	Professor - TCD
Dr. Emma Brazel	2013 [1]	DePuy Synthes
Dr. Paul Ervine	2013 [1]	Industry - Netherlands
Dr. Kevin Kerrigan	2013 [1]	AMRC - UK
Dr. Eoin O Driscoll	2014 [1]	Industry - US
Dr. Rory Stoney	2014 [1]	Entrepreneur - StoneyCNC
Dr. Niall Aughney	2015 [1]	Intel
Dr. Stuart Murphy	2015 [1]	DePuy Synthes
Dr. Ivor Humphreys	2015 [1]	Sonitus Systems
Dr. Barry Aldwell	2015 [1]	TCD Research Fellow
Dr. Jeff Morgan	2015 [1]	TCD Research Fellow - Industry 4.0
Dr. Darren McDonnell	2017 [1]	Induchem Group
Dr. Mark Culleton	2017 [4]	TCD Research Fellow - AMBER DePuy Synthes
Dr. Morten Meyer [2]	2018
Dr. Dominik Seiler	2020 [1]

Graduated Masters by Research

Name	Date of Award	Current Position
John Gilchrist	2010 [1]	Industry - UK
Dr. Kevin Kerrigan	2010 [1]	AMRC Sheffield
Giovanni Borza	2011 [1]	Industry - Ireland
Donal Lynch	2011 [1]	Industry - New Zealand
Dorotta Skupinska	2011 [1]	Industry - Poland
Peadar Golden	2011 [1]	Jaguar Landrover
Dr. Andrew Kelly	2011 [1]	Bristol-Myers Squibb
Dr. Darren McDonnell	2013 [1]	Induchem Group
Michael Reilly	2014 [1]	TCD
Priyanka Mishra	2016 [2]	Industry
Cian Martin	2017 [1]	Stryker

Supervisors: [1] Garret O'Donnell; [2] Rocco Lupoi; [3] Daniel Trimble; [4] Kevin Kelly; [5] Craig Meskell; [6] Shuo Yin