Dr. Pedro A. de Alarcon received his PhD in Bioinformatics (2002) and MS degree in Computer Science (1997). As an academic researcher, he developed his work at the National Center for Biotechnology (Spain) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (California, USA). He has published more than 20 articles in the field of Biomedical Engineering, Biological Databases, Genomics and Proteomics. He was of the founders of Integromics, SL (2002), a bioinformatic company devoloping Life Sciences solutions to the pharma and biotech industry worldwide. In 2007, he joined Telefnica R&D center at Granada (Spain) as a technological consultant. His research focus is on telemedicine, ICT applied to biomedical sciences and clinical information systems.
Ben Arent is dedicated interaction designer based with TRILs Technology platform. He is responsible for creating and evaluating the interactions between people, products and services. As an interaction designer he brings a fresh perspective to the complex problems addressed at TRIL. Ben is involved in all aspects of projects from finding the right design through focus group and prototypesto creating and evaluating usable prototypes while getting the design right. Ben co-founded the local Dublin IxDA where he promotes a community of interaction designers, who are capable of taking on the technical and user centered problems we face today. He keeps a regularly updated design related blog at
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Research Fellow
Dr. Cathy Bailey has a research background in cultural geography and health, with expertise in qualitative methodologies. Her clinical experience is in hospital, community and terminal care nursing. Cathy completed her doctorate in 2000: a grounded theory of household consumption. She has taught undergraduate and post graduate geography students and has written and delivered, qualitative, health research workshops for health professionals. Her research experience includes working on a number of public health funded, community and/or household based, ethnographic and participatory, qualitative studies. These have explored health related decision making, in the context of everyday life. Cathy has experience of preparing a national, regional and local archive of the data from a large diary based, qualitative study. She has a broad publication record and has produced commissioned reports.
Head of Unit G1 "Nanoelectronics" in the European Commission Directorate General for Information Society, and Media (DG INFSO) and Executive Director - at interim - of the Joint Undertaking ENIAC.
Dirk is an engineer in physics, in nuclear and material science (University of Ghent Belgium - 1976). After his studies, he was first involved in statistics and later as engineering and technology manager in setting up a laboratory to sustain the design of microelectronic components and subsequently in setting up a manufacturing site in micro-electronics to produce digital, analogue and high voltage components. He was responsible for a team dealing with technology development and technology transfer between different organisations.
He joined the European Commission in 1990 where he has been responsible for research initiatives in micro-electronics under different European Frameworks (FP) for Research and for cooperation with the Eureka program in that field. He was responsible for setting up the workplan for research in e-work, e-business, e-commerce under FP5 and started a Unit and a Program dealing with Integrated Micro and Nanosystems (FP 5 and 6) including Microsystems, sensors, interfaces, displays and large area integration. At the start of the 7
th Framework he has set up the workplan for Photonics and for Nanoelectronics. He is now responsible for running within Directorate General Information Society the Unit of nano-electronics dealing with the planning and implementation of Framework 6 and 7 activities in nanoelectronics and with all related research, innovation stimulation and regulatory activities in these fields. He is recently nominated Executive Director - at interim - of the first public private partnership between industry, European Member States and the European Commission in the field of Nanoelectronics (The Joint Undertaking ENIAC) for which he launched and implemented the first calls for proposals.
Owner of 2 patents and author of more than 120 articles on diverse research and commercialisation topics, on innovation and research strategies mainly in the field of micro-nano-technologies and miniaturisation.
Senior research at the University of Mons in Belgium, has a PhD in physics. Main research fields include development of experimental tools to analyze nanostructures and functionalization of nanostructures.
Director CRANN
Professor of chemistry
Prof. John Boland received a BSc degree in chemistry from University College Dublin and a PhD in chemical physics from the California Institute of Technology, where he was an IBM graduate fellow and recipient of the Newby-McKoy graduate research award. From 1984 to 1994 Prof. Boland was a member of the research staff at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (New York). In 1994 he joined the chemistry faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was appointed the J.J. Hermans Chair Professor of Chemistry and Applied and Materials Science. In 2002 Prof. Boland moved to the School of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin as a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator.
Prof. Bolands research interests focus on understanding nanoscale processing and materials properties for advanced device applications, including the development of new protocols for assembling, fabricating, and testing nanometre-scale device structures.
Prof. Boland is directly involved in CRANNs Integrated Nanoscale Devices research theme.
Investor Intel Capital
Focus area: Mobility investments in the Western Europe area. Damien joined Intel Capital in 2000. Prior to Intel Capital Damien managed Intels Intel Inside® program and market development field organization in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before Intel Damien worked in telecommunications most notably with Cellnet (now O2) in marketing and sales roles. Damien is a board observer for Adaptive Mobile Security Ltd and Powervation Ltd. He has also invested in and been involved in the exit of Azure (acquired by Subex) and eTel (acquired by Telecom Austria).
Dr. Juan J Pérez-Camacho is a Staff Engineer at Intel Intel Ireland Analytical Labs. He holds a degree in Physics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1990), and a PhD in Physics from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1994). After postdoctoral research in Trinity College Dublin and Optronics Ireland, he joined Intel's Fab10 in Leixlip in 1997. Since 1999 he has been responsible for analytical support to the Intel Ireland Factories (initially the 200 mm Ireland Fab Operations and since 2003 also the 300 mm state of the art Fab24). At Intel Oregon, Dr. Pérez-Camacho contributed to the development of the first Intel strained silicon transistor technology at the 90 nm node. He has a long history of cooperation with Irish and European Universities through the Intel Ireland Academic and Research Programmes.
Intel Ireland Nanotechnology EU Research Programme and Project Manager
Bernie received a Masters Degree in Engineering (MEng) from Newcastle Polytechnic and has been working at Intel for the past 12 years holding various Engineering and Management roles across all four wafer fabrication facilities. Bernie is currently responsible for all silicon nanotechnology EU projects involving Intel Ireland. Bernies semiconductor career spans 22 years, with other Process and Equipment Engineering positions held at Telefunken GmbH, Nortel/Bell Northern Research, Applied Materials and Newport Wafer Fab.
Head of the Micro-Nano Electronics Centre
Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Prof. Jean-Pierre Colinge received a BS degree in Philosophy, the Electrical Engineer degree, and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences from the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1980, 1980, and 1984, respectively. He worked at the Centre National d'Etudes des Tlcommunications (CNET), Meylan, France, at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, USA, at IMEC, Leuven, Belgium, where he was involved in SOI technology for VLSI and special device applications. From 1991 to 1997, Dr. Colinge was professor at the Universit catholique de Louvain, leading a research team in the field of SOI technology for low-power, radiation-hard, high-temperature and RF applications as well as reduced-dimension devices (thin double-gate and quantum-wire MOSFETs). He was professor at the University of California, Davis from 1998 to 2006. He has been on the committee of several conferences, including IEDM and SSDM, has been General Chairman of the IEEE SOS/SOI Technology Conference in 1988, and is a Fellow of IEEE. He has published over 315 scientific papers and four books on the field of SOI as well as two books on semiconductor device physics. Prof. Colinge is currently Professor at the Tyndall National Institute, Ireland, where he is head of the Micro-Nano Electronics Centre and is conducting research on the modeling, fabrication and characterization of advanced SOI MOS devices.
Dr Deborah OConnell is currently on a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship in the Centre for Plasma Physics at Queens University Belfast (2008-2010). She received her PhD in the field of low temperature plasma physics, on comparisons of experimental measurements with numerical simulations, in 2004 from Dublin City University. After her PhD she worked in Ruhr University Bochum in both Department of Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering. Her research included fundamental aspects of plasmas, sophisticated plasma diagnostic techniques, including laser aided diagnostics, and also application-oriented research of technologically relevant plasmas. Her main interest is focused on studying non-equilibrium plasmas using novel diagnostic techniques with an expertise in advanced optical measurements with extremely high temporal and spatial resolution. More recently she has been working with plasma jets at ambient pressure, and their interactions both with one another and also with diverse substrates. She has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and been a regular invited speaker at international conferences, workshops and seminars. She has recently been awarded a UK Engineering and Science Research Council (EPSRC) Career Acceleration Fellowship, which she will shortly take up at Queens University Belfast (2010-2015).
Enda Connolly was appointed as Chief Executive of the Health Research Board in June 2008. Since then, his main focus has been to strategically position the organisation to deliver a step change in health research. His aim is to increase research capacity in the health services and create an environment that can absorb new innovations, deliver better service and improve patient care. Prior to this, Enda spent more than 30 years in IDA Ireland, where he played a pivotal role in leading change, developing strategy, building stakeholder confidence and securing significant foreign direct investment.
He was instrumental in developing the agencys R&D Strategy following his return from five-year assignment as Head of IDAs marketing operations in North America.
Sian Counihan is a research assistant on the cognitive strand of the Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre based primarily at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, providing telephone cognitive assessments. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin's science degree programme as one of the first students of Neuroscience. She then moved from science to psychology studying applied psychology in University College Cork and gaining a Masters in Foundations of Clinical Neuropsychology in the University of Bangor, Wales. Sians research interests include neuropsychology, specifically ageing and acquired brain injury, and the use of technology in the provision of clinical psychology services, inclusive of assessment and therapy.
Martin Cronin is a member of the Higher Education Authority, and of the Boards of the Tyndall National Institute and the Institute of Public Administration.
He was Chief Executive of Forfs from 2002 until 2009.
He has been a member of the National Competitiveness Council and the Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation.
He was Director of Operations in IDA Ireland, the agency responsible for the promotion of Foreign Direct Investment into Ireland, from 1994 until 2002. During that time his responsibilities included the IDA's project groups which work with visiting companies to secure investment decisions, IDA's Overseas Marketing and its IT and Marketing Services Groups. He managed the Electronics Division of IDA Ireland from 1989 to 1994 and the Existing Client Department of the Electronics Division from 1985 to 1989.
Prior to joining IDA, Martin worked in Tinsley Wire in the production of wire and fencing products. He has also worked with General Electric in the manufacture power transistors and in the Distribution Department of the Electricity Supply Board.
Martin Curley is Senior Principal Engineer and Global Director of IT Innovation at Intel Corporation managing a network of IT Innovation centres catalyzing worldwide IT Innovation. Martin was also recently appointed Director of Intel Labs Europe, managing Intels network of fifteen research labs in Europe. Previously Martin has held a number of senior IT Management positions for Intel and held management and research positions at General Electric and Philips. Martin has a degree in Electronic Engineering, a Masters in Business Studies from University College Dublin, Ireland and a PhD in Information Systems from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Martin is Professor of Technology and Business Innovation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and co-Director of the Innovation Value Institute, helping lead a unique industry-academic open innovation consortium to advance IT management and innovation. Martin is the author of several books on the topic of Technology Innovation and Value. Martin is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland and the British Computer Society. He is a frequent international keynote speaker on Innovation and Technology.
Gilbert J. Declerck was born in Oostende, Belgium in 1946. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven in 1972. From 1973 to 1974 he spent one year at the IC laboratories of the Stanford University. He then joined the Leuven University in 1974, where he became Professor in 1983. In 1984 he moved to IMEC in Leuven - Belgium, as Vice President of the Advanced Semiconductor Processing Division. He authored and co-authored over 200 papers and conference contributions. In 1993 Dr. Declerck was elected fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for leadership and contributions to Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor device physics, Charge Coupled Device technology and Very Large Scale Integration processing techniques. In 1998 Dr. Declerck was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of IMEC and from June 1999 till July 2009 he was President and CEO of IMEC. As off July 1
st 2009 he was appointed as Executive Officer and Member of the Board of IMEC. Dr. Declerck is Chairman of the Scientific Committee of CATRENE and member of the CATRENE Board. He is member of several advisory boards of scientific institutes and companies.
Dr. Chie Wei (Mimi) Fan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin. She is the Clinical Director of Research whose main roles are to co-ordinate the set-up of the clinical research facility in St Jamess Hospital and to oversee the recruitment of participants for all strands within the TRIL Centre. She has been working in the Falls and Blackout Clinic in St Jamess Hospital since its inception in 2003. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and received the certificate of completion of specialist training in Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine from the Irish Committee Higher Medical Training from the Royal College of Physicians Ireland in 2001. Her research interests included orthostatic hypotension and non-pharmacological treatment of orthostatic hypotension. She also delivers lectures to health professionals on falls prevention and has published on stroke, falls prevention and sleeping head up for the treatment of orthostatic hypotension.
Director General, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Prof. Frank Gannon was appointed as SFI Director General by the SFI Board in February 2007 and formally took up position on July 2nd 2007.
Prof. Gannon joins SFI from his position as Executive Director of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and Senior Scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), based in Heidelberg, Germany; where he worked since 1994.
Prior to his appointment at EMBO, Prof. Gannon was Director of the National Diagnostic Centre and Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at University College Galway, Ireland, with particular responsibility for the development of a biotechnology programme.
He obtained a Bachelor of Science from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1970, a PhD from the University of Leicester, England in 1973, was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Madison Wisconsin, USA from 1973 to 1975, and Charg de Recherche in INSERM at the University of Strasbourg, France from 1975 to 1981, when he moved back to Galway.
His major research interest is the expression and functional regulation of Estrogen Receptor which plays a major role in breast cancer and osteoporosis. These studies have provided leads to novel treatments or therapeutic approaches to these and other cancers.
Prof. Gannon has authored over 200 research articles published in international journals. In addition he contributes a monthly editorial to EMBO reports of which he is founding Senior Editor and also writes extensively on diverse topics related to science policy. Prof. Gannon has seven patent applications, four of which are active at present and was the founder of both Bimini Ltd. (1990) and Elara Pharmaceuticals (2006). He was a member of the interim Board of Science Foundation Ireland from 2002 to 2004, was elected as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in May 2008 and was awarded a Doctor of Medical Science (Honoris Causa) by Queen's University Belfast in June 2008.
He has served on a range of high-level scientific advisory boards at institutes throughout the world and was co-founder of the European Life Sciences Forum (ELSF) and the Initiative for Science Europe (ISE) that played significant roles in the establishment of the European Research Council (ERC).
Intel Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group
Director, Technology Strategy
Intel Corporation
Dr. Paolo Gargini is the Director of Technology Strategy for Intel Corporation. Dr. Gargini is also responsible for world-wide research activities conducted outside Intel for the Technology and Manufacturing Group by consortia, institutes and universities.
Dr. Gargini was born in Florence, Italy and received a doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a doctorate in Physics in 1975 from the Universita di Bologna, Italy, both with full honor and marks.
He has done research at LAMEL in Bologna, Stanford Electronics Laboratory, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument Research and Development in Palo Alto from 1970 to 1977. Since joining Intel in 1978, Dr. Gargini has conducted studies on Process Reliability; he was responsible for developing the building blocks of HMOS III and CHMOS III technologies used in the 1980's for the 80286 and the 80386 processors. In 1985 he headed the first submicron process development team at Intel.
Dr. Gargini has been the Chairman of the Executive Steering Council (ESC) of I300I and, subsequently, of International Sematech from 1996 to 2000. He is now a member of the Sematech Board. Since 1998, Dr. Gargini has been the Chairman of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS).
He is a member of various technical committees and technical advisory boards for organizations such as the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), and the Technology Strategic Council (TSC) of the SIA in the US, IMEC in Europe, ASET and MIRAI in Japan.
He also heads the International EUV Initiative (IEUVI), formed in 2001, that fosters cooperation and coordination among the largest EUV consortia in the world.
Dr. Gargini is the facilitator of the International Consortia Cooperation Initiative (ICCI). This initiative, started in 2000, fosters exchange of information among a selected group of leading consortia and institutes in the world.
In September 2003, Dr. Gargini was included by EE Times in a very selected group of Influencers of the semiconductor industry with the following motivation: "EE Times has chosen 13 people who are influencing the course of semiconductor development technology and taking it into realms that exceed the bounds set by the inventors of the transistor more than 50 years ago.
Dr. Gargini initiated and became the first Chairman of the Governing Council of the Nano Electronics Research Initiative (NERC) funded in June 2005 by SIA. This Initiative is aimed at supporting and focusing research in universities towards subsequent commercialization of Nanoelectronics. NERC actively cooperates in this effort with USG organizations such as NNI, NSF, DARPA, and NIST.
General Manager, Intel Ireland
Vice President, Technology Manufacturing Group (TMG),
Intel Corporation
Jim O'Hara is vice president, Technology Manufacturing Group, Intel Corporation and Intel Ireland general manager.
Jim took over the role of Intel Ireland general manager in April 2002 and is responsible for Intels manufacturing operations in Ireland and for the sites strategic direction, management leadership and development, and government and community relations.
OHara joined Intel in 1991 as part of the Fab 10 start up team. He became plant manager for Fab 10 in 1996 and subsequently managed both Fab 10 and Fab 14, now known as Ireland Fab Operations.
Prior to joining Intel Jim worked in Digital Equipment Corporation for the previous 17 years, the last five of which were based in their corporate headquarters in Massachusetts.
OHara is a member of both the management and governing boards for ICT Ireland. In 2005 he joined the board of the Smurfit Business School at University College Dublin, and the Institute Board of CRANN (Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices) at Trinity College Dublin. In 2007, Jim was appointed as a member of the Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) and in July 2008 he joined the board of Business in the Community Ireland.
OHara was conferred with an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the National University of Ireland.
Process Engineering Department Manager &
Research Programs Manager
Intel Ireland
Leonard Hobbs graduated from UCC in 1986 with a 1
st class honours degree in Electrical Engineering and was also awarded the title of graduate of the year by the college. He completed a Masters degree at the NMRC (now called Tyndall), at UCC in 1988. From 1988 to 1991 he worked as a research scientist at IMEC, Belgium.
In 1991 he joined Intel and was assigned to the development organisation at D2, California where he worked on Intels first 200mm/0.5um technology. He transferred back to Ireland with Intel in 1992 and has completed two other assignments in Arizona and Portland during his time at Intel. He has worked on every technology transfer program to the Ireland site from the 200mm/0.5um process to the 300mm/0.65um process. He currently the manager of Intel Ireland's Technology and Manufacturing Research program. The Manufacturing technology research looks for innovative ways to improve productivity such as in predictive maintenance and virtual metrology. The Technology research is focused primarily on nanotechnology with a view to extending Moores Law. The research includes such topics as alternative patterning techniques using self assembly, new memory structures using advanced magnetic layers, breakthrough methods for creating contacts to silicon, applications for carbon nanotubes in interconnect technology and new metal oxides for logic applications. The research is conducted in partnership with the Center for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) at Trinity College Dublin and at the Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork. The research undertaken at the Leixlip campus includes designing and fabricating test structures for integrating nanomaterials and the corresponding advanced materials analysis.
Intel Ireland also works in collaboration with EU-based researchers via the EU 6
th and 7
th Framework Program, including research on carbon nanotubes, magnetic materials and photonics. Leonard is also responsible for Intels involvement in the ENIAC Joint Undertaking in which he partners with companies such as STMicroelectronics in advanced manufacturing research. Other collaborators in Europe include the research facilities IMEC in Belgium, CEA Liten in France and Cambridge University in the UK.
Leonard is current leader of the Competence Centre for Applied Nanotechnology and is the chair of the Nanofab Consortium. He is a member of the External Advisory Board at Tyndall National Institute and is a member of the Executive Committee at the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) at TCD. He is also a member of the board of INSPIRE integratied Nanoscience Platform for Ireland and the Centre for Research on Independent Living (TRIL). He is also a member of the Steering Committee for the European 450mm Equipment and Materials Initiative and most recently was appointed to the AENEAS/ENIAC Support Group.
Intel Senior Fellow, Intel Labs
Director, Communications Technology Lab
Intel Corporation
Dr. Kevin Kahn is an Intel Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Technology in Intel Labs, the corporate advanced development and research labs organization. His responsibilities include all communications technologies including radio, optical, and copper physical layer technologies, CMOS communications circuits work, packet processing, and higher layer protocols. Additionally, he helps drive communications strategies and policy for the corporation. Some of his primary current focuses are broadband access to the home, wireless LANs and PANs, spectrum policy, and related Internet issues. He also chairs the Intel Communications Research Council, which oversees research activities between Intel and academic programs. He currently serves on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, the Department of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, and on various academic advisory committees. He is a past member of the FCC Technological Advisory Council.
Dr. Kahn represents Intel in various industry consortia and various government policy forums. He has lectured widely at Universities in the U.S. and abroad about Intel and personal research activities. He previously served on the National Academy of Science Broadband Last Mile Study Panel, served as the co-chair of the Universal ADSL Working Group, an industry alliance dedicated to accelerating the deployment of consumer ADSL services for higher speed Internet access, and served as a Director of the DSL Forum.
Dr. Kahn joined Intel in 1976 after completing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University. Prior to that, he had received an M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Manhattan College. Throughout his long career with Intel, he has worked in system software development, operating systems, processor architecture, and various strategic planning roles. He has held both management and senior individual contributor roles. He holds multiple patents in processor architecture and communications technologies.
Dr. Kahn is based at Intels facility in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Ger is Worldwide Market Segment Manager for the Energy Market with responsibility for Intels Strategy and Market direction within the Smart Grid and related Energy sub segments. Ger works out of Intel Shannon and is part of Intels Embedded Computing Division (ECG). In parallel, to his Energy role he has responsibility in identifying the next growth areas ECG Division. Before joining ECG, he worked in the Improvement Engineering Department of Intel Irelands Fab Organsiation (IFO). He has 13 yrs work experience in the semiconductor industry working primarily in Lithography process engineering. Ger has a PhD in applied Physics from Dublin City University and a primary Experimental Physics degree from University College Dublin.
Head of the Department of Medical Gerontology in Trinity College Dublin,
Director of the Falls and Blackout Unit at St. James's Hospital,
Director of the Centre for Successful Ageing
Professor Rose Anne Kenny is Head of the Department of Medical Gerontology in Trinity College, Director of the Falls and Blackout Unit at St. James's Hospital, Director of the Centre for Successful Ageing and is visiting Professor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Formerly Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Institute for Ageing & Health, Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK, she has been a world leader in research into cardiovascular and mobility disorders in ageing. Professor Rose Anne Kenny's research interests are in neurocardiovascular function in ageing. The overarching aims of the research programmes are to unpick the mechanisms for cardiovascular and cerebral dysfunction in the context of falls, blackouts, cognitive impairment and dementia. The research involves collaborative partnership with disciplines from basic science (developing animal modules of cardiovascular and cerebral dysfunction) through to health service development and implementation. She has conducted longitudinal cohort studies of vascular factors in cognitive impairment (post stroke cohort, NCVI in the community and carotid sinus hypersensitivity cohort).
She has published in excess of 200 papers, 40 book chapters and 3 text books and currently chairs the Falls prevention Working Party for the American and British Geriatric Societies and the National Falls collaborative Working Group in Ireland. She has represented her field on international groups for heart failure, syncope and falls. Since her appointment at Trinity College (October 2005) she is:
- PI for the falls strand in the TRIL Centre
- Lead PI for the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
- Lead PI for HRB translational research programme investigating why older people with mild cognitive impairment convert to dementia
- Member of the Academic Board of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS)
- Chairing the falls group for the National Falls Collaborative
Intel Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group
Director, Advanced Device Technology
Intel Corporation
Kelin J. Kuhn is an Intel Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group and director of Advanced Device Technology. Kuhn is responsible for device architecture path finding for Intel's advanced process technologies.
Kuhn joined Intel in 1997 working on Intel's 0.35 micron process technology. Since then, Kuhn has been involved in Intel's manufacturing process technology development for the 0.35 um, 130nm, 90nm, 45nm and 22nm technology nodes.
Previously, Kuhn was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. Kuhn is the past recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award for her work on strained layer III-V materials and an Intel IAA award for her work on Hi-K metal gate transistors. Kuhn has six patents with four others pending, is the author of more than 60 technical papers, and has authored a textbook on laser engineering.
Kuhn earned her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 1980. Kuhn received her master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1985.
Hubert Lakner (born 1958) received his diploma-degree in physics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universitt in Tbingen in 1986. After one year in industry he joined the Gerhard-Mercator-Universitt (Duisburg) working in the field of nanocharacterisation of mesoscopic semiconductor structures. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1993. From 1994 until September 1998 he was Oberingenieur at the Gerhard-Mercator-Universitt. He focussed on high frequency and high speed circuits based on compound semiconductor heterostructures. From October 1998 until December 2001 he headed the Department for Micromechanical Sensors and Actuators at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems (IMS) in Dresden where he was the Acting Director in 2002. Since January 2003 he is the Director of the new Fraunhofer Institute of Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) in Dresden. Additionally, he is Professor for Optoelectronic Devices and Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Technical University Dresden since February 2004. He is deputy speaker of the Fraunhofer Microelectronics Alliance (representing about 1500 employees in 12 institutes) since 2005.
Director of the European Connected Health Campus,
Business Development Director of ABFL Groupe-Intellex
Eoin is a founding Director of the European Connected Health Campus and Business Development Director of ABFL Groupe-Intellex. Based in Belfast, Northern Ireland he is currently co-ordinating the business development of Personal Broadband, a mobile broadband service for the public sector and commercial organisations using technology based on the advanced HC-SDMA standard.
A key focus application for the use of this mobile broadband network is the deployment of remote patient monitoring devices. Eoin is leading a development team using the combined resources of a national University, various device manufacturers and a major software company to research into the issues of technically installing and managing remote monitoring health devices.
Eoin is also leading several media projects including a new on-line video training service for the digital music industry and the development of the international Creative Campus as part of Titanic Quarter - a 185-acre development site that is set to be the UK's first fully-fibred '21
st century City'.
With a background in developing international sales distribution channels for computer consumable and telecoms products, he has in-depth expertise in the rapid and efficient establishment of new business ventures. Specialising during the 1990s in establishing UK subsidiaries for US and German manufacturing companies, Eoin was formerly the Sales Director for Teles Euroservice GmBH (based at Shannon and Berlin) with responsibility across Europe for SkyDSL (satellite broadband services) following two years as Managing Director of Teles UK Ltd.
Factory Manager Fab 24
Intel Corporation
Philip Moynagh is the Factory Manager of Fab24 in Ireland, one of Intels flagship facilities. The factory is Capital Intensive with over $4 Billion invested and is Knowledge Intensive producing digital economy building blocks through 1,700 third level educated employees. Fab24 is among the largest 300mm Manufacturing Facilities in the World.
Philip graduated with a B.A.I. Engineering and B.A. Maths from Trinity College Dublin in 1985. He worked as a Research Scientist in STC Bell Labs until joining Intel in 1991. With Intel he has worked in Engineering, Manufacturing and Technology Development roles in Dublin, Oregon, California and Arizona. Prior to Fab24, Philip was Factory Manager of Fab32 in Phoenix, the worlds first high-k metal-gate high-volume-manufacturing facility.
Philip is married with three children, and lives in Dublin, Ireland.
Stokes Professor of Materials Chemistry,
Tyndall National Institute /University College Cork
Prof. Martyn Pemble received his BSc degree from the University of Southampton in 1976 and his PhD also from Southampton in 1981. His thesis research was in the area of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and was performed under the supervision of Professor Martin Fleischman FRS.
Following this he undertook postdoctoral studies at the University of California at Irvine with Professor John Hemminger and the University of East Anglia in Norwich UK with Professor Norman Sheppard and Professor Michael Chesters, before being appointed as a New Blood Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1984. In 1995 he was appointed to the Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Salford.
In 2004 he was awarded a substantial grant by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to work at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, as an SFI Investigator, where he now heads the
Advanced Materials and Surfaces Group*
This group studies the areas of advanced chemical vapour deposition (CVD) systems and atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, including surface catalysed CVD, the use of templated substrates in CVD growth/passivation (particularly of the III-Vs) and the growth of high-k dielectrics for advanced CMOS applications. In addition the group is well-known for its work on the growth and characterisation of synthetic photonic crystals based upon opaline systems.
In November 2008 Prof. Pemble was appointed as the Stokes Professor of Materials Chemistry- a joint position between Tyndall and UCC Chemistry.
He has published approximately 160 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals and supervised some 35 PhD students and 10 Masters students. He is joint Managing Director of a University spin-out company,
CVD Technologies Ltd*, that provides expertise in the area of CVD process development and both small and high volume, continuous CVD coating. Prof. Pemble now coordinates the SFI-funded Strategic Research Cluster entitled FORME for Functional Oxides and Related Materials for Electronics- an activity that currently involves researchers at Tyndall, UCC, DCU, QUB, Glebe Scientific Intel and Seagate.
Declan Raftery is Director of Research Support Services at Dublin City University and is responsible for the management of all university external research contracts and liaison with national and international funding agencies. Declan has a degree in Analytical Science (1992), PhD (1996) in adhesive chemistry and an Executive MBA (2002). He then studied as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute at the University of Wollongong, Australia in 1997 before taking the position of Manager of the National Centre for Sensor Research at DCU, a position held until December 2003 until appointed Director of Research Support Services.
He is a member of the Board of Invent, DCUs IP and Commercialisation Unit and the North Dublin Development Coalition (NorDubCo), which was established in 1996 by the Ballymun Partnership, Finglas Cabra Partnership, Northside Partnership, Dublin City University, Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council to promote the economic and social development of the North Dublin region.
Head of Physics Department, National Institute of Applied Sciences - Toulouse, France
Prof. Bertrand Raquet is an engineer in applied physics (National Institute of Applied Sciences, France 1992). He received a PhD in Solid States Physics from the University of Toulouse (France) in 1996. From1996 to 1998, Bertrand Raquet worked at the MARTECH Laboratory (Florida State University), where he was involved in electronic noise measurements on half ferromagnets for Spintronics. In 1998 he joined the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Toulouse as an academic researcher in charge of Nano-sciences under high magnetic field. Since 2006, he is head of the Physics Department at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Toulouse, France.
Prof. Raquets research interests focus on the electronic properties of individual nano-objects like carbon nanotube, graphene, nanowires with an expertise in electronic noise studies and quantum phenomena under extreme conditions, low temperatures and very high magnetic fields.
Minister Eamon Ryan was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 2002. Prior to his appointment as Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, he was the Green Party spokesperson for Transport and Enterprise, Trade and Employment and opposition convenor on the Joint Oireachtas Committee for Communication, Marine and Natural Resources.
Prior to his election to the Dáil he set up and ran two businesses, Irish Cycling Safaris and Belfield Bike shop. He was an active member and chairman of the Dublin Cycling Campaign, and from 1995 to 2002 he served on the Advisory Committee of the Dublin Transport Office.
- Minister Ryan was born in Dublin in 1963 and raised in Dundrum and Milltown.
- He was educated in Gonzaga College and University College Dublin where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree.
- He currently lives in Clonskeagh with his wife, the writer Victoria White, and their four young children.
CEO, Board member
Antoin Russell has served as chief executive officer of Powervation since co-founding the company in January 2006.
Prior to Powervation, Mr. Russell spent 11 years at Power-One where he held a succession of executive positions, including managing director, and vice president of research and development for Power-One Ireland. Before Power-One, he held technology and technical marketing management positions with a variety of power solutions companies, including Artesyn Technologies, ASTEC, ConverTec Corporation and Melcher.
Mr. Russell is a member of the Technology Committee for the Power Electronics Industry Group (PEIG), which represents the interests of enterprises involved in power electronics in Ireland. He holds a masters degree in business administration from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Dr. Cliodhna Ní Scanaill is a Health Research Technologist in Intels Digital Health team based in Leixlip, Ireland. She is also Falls Co-PI in the TRIL Centre. Her current research interests include falls, gait analysis, wireless sensor networks, telemonitoring, and smart home technology. Prior to joining Intel in 2006, she was studying for her PhD on Remote Mobility Monitoring of the Elderly using SMS messaging in the Biomedical Electronics Laboratory, University of Limerick, Ireland. Dr. Ní Scanaill holds a B.Eng in Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Electronics from the University of Limerick.
Director of Commercialisation at NUI Maynooth
NUI Maynooth
John Scanlan is Director of Commercialisation at NUI Maynooth, leading a team which focuses on building links with industry partners and exploiting university developed technologies. Prior to joining NUI Maynooth he was CTO of Straatum a software and hardware supplier to the semiconductor industry with responsibility for product development and marketing. Straatum spun out from his PhD thesis at DCU and was sold to Lam Research in California. He also worked for Applied Materials in Edinburgh and California for several years. His experience spans technology development, marketing, commercialisation and partnership development and has worked in Asia, Europe and USA. He is the author of several technical journal and trade magazine publications on plasma physics and process control and is an inventor on 7 US patents. He completed a PhD in Plasma Physics at DCU in 1991.
European Research Director, Digital Health Group,
Intel Industry Director,
TRIL Centre
Niamh directs Digital Health Groups European Product Research & Innovation team based in Leixlip. PRI Europe (PRIe) is an interdisciplinary team of social scientists, technologists, and interaction design researchers and is part of Eric Dishmans, Intel Fellow, Global Product Research and Innovation Group. The European team was established in 2006 with the mission of extending Digital Health Groups research into Europe with a particular focus on understanding Ageing and how technology can support older people to live independent, active lives.
Niamhs role involves managing PRIe as well as the teams collaborations with European medical, technical, social science and design researchers in academia and industry in the health domain. Niamh is also Industry Director of the Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre. TRIL is an active industry-academic research collaboration involving approximately 70 researchers from PRIe, University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and National University of Ireland, Galway. The centre was launched in January 2007 by the then Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Michel Martin, Eric Dishman & Jim O'Hara. TRIL is also multi-disciplinary in nature and includes social scientists, technologists, designers, clinicians and neuroscientists to create one of the largest research efforts of this type in the world. With support from IDA Ireland approximately $30 million will be invested by Intel & the IDA over a three year period.
The TRIL Centre is focusing on three key areas: improving social health and community engagement for older people, detecting and reducing falls in the home, and helping those with memory loss to maintain their independence. These research areas are important as a decline in physical and cognitive or mental performance associated with becoming older is often coupled with a decline in self-confidence and in social interactions. Age related physical decline includes an increased risk in falls and fall-related injuries, which are a major cause of concern for older people and indeed a major public health concern worldwide. For further information on the TRIL Centre please visit
www.trilcentre.org*
Niamh is a first class (top honours) engineering graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has been with Intel since 1992 and has held a number of manager roles with multi-nation work experiences (US, Europe & the Middle East) leading virtual and direct report teams; the latter half focused on new business programs. She joined Intel from Digital Equipment Corporation.
DIPL Arch, BArch SC,
Head of Environment and Planning Department
in the School of Spatial Planning at DIT
As managing Director of a number of environmental consultancies Conor has practiced, lectured and published on EIA within the planning system since 1989 advising the public and private sectors on the practicalities of assessment, decision-making and their integration with strategic and land-use planning. His experience of large-scale EIA and strategic planning brought him into increased contact with the emerging recognition of the need for SEA which involved participation in debates and analysis at EU level during the formative stages of the SEA Directive. In his position within DIT he is now involved in assisting in the implementation of SEA in Republic of Ireland through the provision of training and guidance for agencies and planning authorities as well as collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency in the establishment of good practice in SEA.
TRIL Centre Manager
Seamus Small, is a BSc Hons Computing Science graduate from the University of Ulster as well as an MBA graduate from Dublin City University. Seamus joined TRIL in 2007 as TRIL Centre Manager and focuses on managing all TRIL operations, leading a team of functional managers across the centre to ensure TRIL successfully delivers on its objectives.
Seamus has previously worked for Intel as a Senior Project Manager and has extensive experience in managing software, infrastructure and business projects within Intel, as well as managing a team of technical consultants. Prior to joining UCD and TRIL Seamus worked briefly as a Program Manager for an industry leading online gaming company.
Director ICARUS, The Irish Climate Analysis and Research Unit
Geography Dept
NUI Maynooth
Prof. John Sweeney is Irelands leading expert on climate change and is a member of the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along with former US vice-president Al Gore.
Scottish born Prof. Sweeney has been a lecturer at the geography department of NUI Maynooth since 1978, specialising in climatology and environmental resource management, and currently leads a number of research projects examining various aspects of climate change in Ireland.
A graduate of the University of Glasgow, where he was awarded a PhD in 1980, Prof. Sweeney has taught and carried out research at universities in North America and Africa. He has also been involved in curriculum development at second and third levels.
Over the past 30 years he has published some 60 scientific papers, edited or co-authored four reports on the likely impacts of climate change here and served as a contributing author and editor of the IPCCs influential Fourth Assessment, published in 2007.
His most recent report for the Environmental Protection Agency, prepared by the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units at NUI Maynooth, projected that temperatures in Ireland will increase by more than two degrees by the end of the century with significant changes in rainfall.
Professor Sweeney was recently appointed president of An Taisce, Irelands national trust.
Professor of Physics and
Dean of Knowledge Transfer at Durham University
He moved to Durham in 1973 as a Lecturer having held a Junior Research Fellowship at Linacre College Oxford. Promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1983, Reader in 1986 and Professor in 1990, he was Head of the Department of Physics from 1996-1999. From 1999-2000 he held a Sir James Knott Foundation Fellowship and from 2000-2001 he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow. From 2000-5, he directed the North East Centre for Scientific Enterprise, subsequently becoming Director of Technology Transfer. In 2008 he was appointed Dean of Knowledge Transfer.
Brian has served on numerous Research Council committees and panels, has chaired international committees at major research facilities and peer review committees of the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council. In 1978 he co-founded a spin-off company, Bede Scientific Instruments Ltd which floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2000. It was purchased by Jordan Valley Semiconductors in 2008. He was the first chairman of Durham Pipeline Technology Ltd. and is a co-founder and non-executive director (deputy-chairman) of another Durham University spin-off company, Kromek, which employs just under 40 people at NETPark in Sedgefield, County Durham.
Brian's research interests lie in understanding the relationship between magnetic, optical and structural properties of advanced materials, making particular use of high resolution X-ray scattering and diffraction imaging. He was jointly awarded the 2005 Barrett Award of the Pennsylvania-based International Center for Diffraction Data.
Brian obtained a BA Honours degree in Physics from Oxford University in 1968, MA in 1972, and DPhil from its Department of Metallurgy in 1972. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Society of Arts.
President and Chief Operating Officer IMEC
Luc Van den hove is President and Chief Operating Officer at IMEC Since July 1, 2009 and has been Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at IMEC since 2007.
Luc Van den hove has received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He joined IMEC from the start in 1984. He started his career at IMEC as a team leader in charge of silicide and interconnect technologies. Subsequently he has held several management positions: as from 1988: manager of IMECs Micro-Patterning group (lithography, dry etching); 1996: Department Director of Unit Process Step R&D; 1998: Vice President in charge of the Silicon Process and Device Technology division. In January 2007, he has been promoted to Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer. Currently, he is also Professor at the University of Leuven.
He has written 1 chapter of a book and authored or co-authored more than 150 publications and conference contributions.
Science Officier for Materials, Physical and NanoScience COST
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Dr. Caroline M. Whelan is a materials scientist who graduated with a BSc in Analytical Science in 1994 for which she was awarded the Gold Medal of Excellence and a PhD in Chemistry dealing with self-assembled layers of thiols on gold single crystal surfaces in 1998, both from Dublin City University. As a PhD student, she had the opportunity to stay in laboratories in several European countries. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoc, first at Namur University, where she was involved in several European networks, and later at the Erlangen-Nurnberg University, which involved research at the Bessy, Elettra, and MaxLab synchrotron light facilities. She then moved to applied research at IMEC (Interuniversity Centre of Microelectronics), Leuven, where she spent seven years in the nanotechnology group, studying new materials for post CMOS technology. She specializes in basic and applied experimental research on exploratory materials for Nanoelectronic applications. She has extensive experience with state-of-the-art material characterization techniques with a particular interest in ultra-high vacuum based analysis and synchrotron radiation sources. She has over 60 peer reviewed publications, several patents, edited a book and co-authored over 80 International Conference contributions. She joined COST in 2008 where she is the Science Off icier for Materials, Physical and NanoScience. COST European Cooperation in Science and Technology is one of the longest-running European instruments supporting cooperation among scientists and researchers across Europe. COST is also the first and widest European intergovernmental network for coordination of nationally funded research activities. COST mission is to strengthen Europe in scientific and technical research through the support of European cooperation and interaction between European Researchers. COST has 34 member countries and enables scientists to collaborate in a wide spectrum of activities grouped under nine key scientific Domains. Ease of access for institutions from non-member countries also makes COST a very interesting and successful tool for tackling topics of a truly global nature.
Joe Wherton is a psychologist working within the Social Connection strand at the Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre, Dublin. Before joining TRIL, Joe completed a Psychology PhD at University of York, UK (2008), and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology at University of Bath, UK (2004). While at University of York, his research was based within the Centre for Usable Home Technology (CUHTec), focusing on the requirements of technology for people with dementia, design of cognitive prostheses and the psychosocial impact of telecare in sheltered housing. His current work focuses on the development of communication technology to reduce risks of loneliness and social isolation among older adults.
Dr. Alain Zarli gained his PhD in computer science in 1990, from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, and is currently working at CSTB as a project manager and Head of the "Innovation and Services Engineering" Division within the "Information Technologies and Knowledge Dissemination" department. His main fields of interest are programming languages and compilation, product modelling, rule-based languages and knowledge-based systems, distributed architectures, and software components, and technologies for smart constructions. He has been involved in many FP4 Esprit projects (ATLAS, VEGA, GENIAL, WONDA), FP5 IST projects (OSMOS, eConstruct, Divercity, ISTforCE, CoMMA and eCOGNOS), as well as FP6 IST and NMP projects (SWOP, InPro, etc.), and has been in FP5 the project co-ordinator of the IST ICCI cluster project and of the IST ROADCON Strategic Roadmap (which finished end of 2003) and is member of the ProDAEC thematic network. He is one of the main authors of the ECTP Processes & ICT Focus Area Strategic research Agenda, and currently coordinator of the REEB project, in charge of establishing the European vision and roadmap for future R&D in ICT supporting Energy Efficiency in the Built environment.
