Environmental Nanomineralogy group – Rodriguez Blanco (TCD)
Title of Research Group: Environmental Nanomineralogy group Principal Investigator: Dr. Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco Institution: Trinity College Dublin School: School of Natural Sciences, Department of Geology Also: iCRAG funded investigator. Research: The main focus of my work is to study the mechanisms of crystallisation of minerals like carbonates, phosphates and sulphates at the nanoscale to understand […]
Nanoscience and nanostructures group – Morris (UCC)
Title of Research Group: Nanoscience and nanostructures group Principal Investigator: Prof. Michael Morris Dr Parvaneh Mokarian Institution: University College Cork School: Chemistry Research: Our group focuses on the development of nanoelectronic devices which has strong links to Intel. Our work centres on the development of self-organised block copolymers for the generation of precise surface patterns […]
Membrane Structural and Functional Biology – Caffrey (TCD)
Title of Research Group: Membrane Structural and Functional Biology Principal Investigator: Professor Martin Caffrey Institution: Trinity College Dublin School: School of Biochemistry and Immunology Research: macromolecular X-ray crystallography, membrane lipids and proteins, membrane mimetics, robotics, structure-function relationships A healthy cell, and by extension a healthy organism, requires intact, selectively permeable membranes. Whist lipids are essential […]
Membrane Protein Structural Biology Group – Soulimane (UL)
Title of Research Group: Membrane Protein Structural Biology Group Principal Investigator: Prof. Tewfik Soulimane Institution: University of Limerick School: Chemical & Environmental Sciences/Materials & Surface Science Institute Research: X-ray crystallography of proteins is the gold standard method to obtain atomic resolution structures. For most proteins, the high flux coupled with low beam divergence and tunability […]
Actinide Group – Baker (TCD)
Title of Research Group: Actinide group Principal Investigator: Prof. Robert Baker Institution: Trinity College Dublin School: School of Chemistry Research: My group are interested in exploring the chemistry of the early actinides from a fundamental and applied point of view. We are interested in how U, Np and Am change over the long timescales represented […]
Nanomaterials Processing Laboratory – McNally (DCU)
Title of Research Group: Nanomaterials Processing Laboratory Principal Investigator: Prof. Patrick McNally Institution: Dublin City University. School: School of Electronic Engineering. Research: We are developing groundbreaking new in situ, nondestructive analysis techniques to measure the warpage of semiconductor die inside fully encapsulated advanced packaged chips running from standard ball grid array (BGA) packages through to nascent […]