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UCD Academics

U N I VE R SI T Y COLLEG E DU BL I N

CR E AT I NG VA LU E FROM K NOW L EDGE

Professor Emma Teeling
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE
F O R I R I S H B AT R E S E A R C H

Emma established the Laboratory of
Molecular Evolution and Mammalian
Phylogenetics in 2005 and is the recipient
of a European Research Council (ERC)
starting grant.

Professor Walter Kolch
D I R E C T O R O F U C D C O N W AY I N S T I T U T E /
DIRECTOR OF SYSTEMS BIOLOGY IREL AND

Walter is the Director of Systems Biology
Ireland (SBI) and Director of the UCD Conway
Institute, an interdisciplinary flagship
Research Institute for biomolecular and
biomedical research. He is an internationally
recognised cancer researcher in using
systems biology approaches.

Professor Barry Smyth
D I G I TA L C H A I R O F
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Barry is an internationally recognised leader
in Data Science through his successes in
research, innovation and outreach. Under
his leadership, the Insight Centre for Data
Analytics was established in 2013, through
the largest ever single centre award grant of
€75m from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).

Dr Barbara Dooley
D E A N O F G R A D U AT E S T U D I E S &
DEPUTY REGISTRAR

Barbara is co-founder of the Youth Mental
Health Lab in UCD and Director of Research
for Headstrong, the National Centre for
Youth Mental Health. Her seminal report ‘My
World’ (2012) looked at the mental health of
Irish youth aged 12 to 25 examining both risk
and protective factors.
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