Engineering

Engineering

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- Dr William Finnegan   william.finnegan@universityofgalway.ie 

Renewable energy from wind, wave and tidal

- Professor Martin Glavin   martin.glavin@universityofgalway.ie 

Signal and image processing, sensors, automotive, and agri-tech

- Dr Magdalena Hajdukiewicz   magdalena.hajdukiewicz@universityofgalway.ie

Sustainable built environment, nearly zero-energy buildings, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of indoor environments, structural and environmental building performance monitoring and modelling, control optimisation of energy efficient buildings and quality inspections during construction processes

- Dr Patrick McGetrick   patrick.mcgetrick@universityofgalway.ie  

Civil, structural and timber engineering, Irish timber properties, structural design and analysis, engineered wood products and mass timber, structural performance testing, structural dynamics, structural health monitoring of bridges, life cycle assessment and embodied carbon, and novel steel connections

- Professor Laoise McNamara   laoise.mcnamara@universityofgalway.ie 

Biomedical engineering, medical devices, biomechanics, mechanobiology, and bone diseases, for example osteoporosis, metastasis

- Dr Rory Monaghan   rory.monaghan@universityofgalway.ie 

Electric cars, fossil fuels, renewable/sustainable energy, hydrogen, and energy systems

- Dr Nathan Quinlan   nathan.quinlan@universityofgalway.ie 

Heat pumps, wind energy, aerodynamics, and fluid dynamics