It was announced last week that NUI Galway was successful in securing two of the new Science Foundation Ireland Engineering Professorship and Lectureship posts announced recently by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin, T.D. The College of Engineering and Informatics will appoint the new lecturers later this year. Both posts are involved in the biomedical engineering discipline. An interesting feature of this Science Foundation Ireland scheme is the signifigant involvement of the private sector which is providing 20% co-funding.
Professor Padraic O’ Donoghue, Dean of the College of Engineering and Informatics at NUI Galway, is thrilled with the University’s achievement in this highly competitive proposal call, "Both positions will greatly assist NUI Galway in its goal of generating highly trained and qualified graduates, and in generating world class research, in biomedical engineering in a manner that will be directly relevant to industry. The new lecturers will be appointed following an extensive international search to attract and identify the best available candidates."
The positions are concerned with the areas of functional biomaterials and biomechanics and are strongly supported by the medical technologies sector. The SFI Professorship and Lectureship programme will run for a further three years and it is planned to create a total of 35 posts over the lifetime of the scheme.
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