Govt Backs Researchers With €25M

27 Pioneering Projects 2 Create Smart Economy Jobs - O'Keeffe

 

 

 

Researchers working on 27 pioneering projects in Irish higher education institutions have been awarded more than €25 million in funding under Science Foundation Ireland's Principal Investigator Programme which is backing strategic research into ICT, life sciences, and sustainable energy.

 

 

The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O'Keeffe TD has allocated more than €25 million over the next five years to allow 139 researchers to carry out cutting-edge work in the hope of generating smart economy jobs.

 

 

Minister O'Keeffe said the selected projects had the capacity to create new jobs in the smart economy because they targeted high-growth areas at the cutting-edge of innovation.

 

 

Science Foundation Ireland directly supports more than 3,200 researchers who are collaborating with almost 400 indigenous and multinational firms based in Ireland. The funding targets research into software, telecoms, environmental protection, health, agriculture and energy.

 

 

Intel,Sigma Aldich,Seagate, ESB and Eirgrid are some of the companies involved in research projects set to benefit from resulting new products, services and jobs.

 

"Today's Science Foundation Ireland awards are a very important contribution to our innovation ecosystem and a core component of the Government's economic recovery project,' said Minister O'Keeffe.

 

 

"The wide range of projects on which the selected researchers are working capture the calibre of work underway in our higher education institutions," he said.

 

"Their focus on turning ideas into commercialised products and services is meeting the challenge of the Innovation Taskforce Report which is rooted in the promise of human capital and our capacity to forge a future for tomorrow's workers.

 

"By investing on a sustained basis in pioneering work, the Government is demonstrating our determination to support the emerging talent pool of scientists and engineers and create the jobs of tomorrow," the Minister concluded.

 

 

Science Foundation Ireland Director General Professor Frank Gannon said the Principal Investigator Programme has been the cornerstone of the agency's work agenda.

 

"The track record shows that by selecting excellent researchers we can develop key partnerships with leading industries in Ireland, as well as producing high-quality publications and highly skilled workers.That is the promise of the Government's strategic investment in high-value research and human capital," said Professor Gannon.

 

 

There were15 life sciences awards  and  12 awards  given to  Information Communications & Emergent Technologies  projects. 

 

Dr Evelyn Murphy of University College Dublin (pictured above with Minister O ' Keefe and Professor Gannon won an award for her  research into  NR4A receptor activity during distinct phases of acute and chronic inflammation in illnesses such as arthritis.

 

The ICT projects that got funding  include:

Prof Joao Marques-Silva, of University College Dublin for his BEACON project which looks at BoolEAn-based deCision and OptimizatioN procedures - Constraint Programming

 

Max Ammann - Dublin Institute of Technology for investigating Footwear Telemetry Antennas for Next Generation of Body-Centric Sensor Networks

 

Dr Michael Connelly, University of Limerick for research into Semiconductor Optical Amplifier based All-Optical Signal Processing for Ultra High-Speed Photonic Systems

 

Prof Nick Campbell, Prof Ailbhe Ni Chasaide and Dr. Christer Gobl, of Trinity College Dublin for their FASTNET research project which focuses on Actions in Social Talk: Network-Enabling Technology

 

Andrew Fowler  of the  University of Limerick will  Mathematically model  bacterial growth and water quality in natural and commercial environments

Simon Elliot, Tyndall National Institute, Cork  for  ALDesign - Process design for atomic layer deposition

Dr Justin Holmes and Dr Michael Morris, University College Cork for re search into  Novel Nanowire Structures for Devices
 

Paul Hurley, Tyndall National Institute, Cork will Investigate Emerging Non-Silicon Transistors in his INVENT project

 

Liam Barry, Dublin City University will look at  Applications of Wavelength Tuneable Lasers in Access and Metro Networks

 

Prof. Barak Pearlmutter, NUI Maynooth will research Higher-Level Efficient Numerics and Machine Learning

 

 

Dr Damian Flynn, University College Dublin for Enhancement of short-term power system flexibility at high wind penetration levels:


Dr Attilio Cafolla, Dublin City University for Formation, characterisation and exploitation of covalently bonded porphyrin nanostructures.

 

 

 

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