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Dr. Edward Curry Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Email: edward.curry@nuigalway.ie ——— Edward Curry investigates the impact and adoption trends of emerging technologies within industry. His specific focus for the last number of years has been how linked data technology and the web of data are changing the way business work and interact with information. He is a research leader at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), one of the leading international web science research organizations. His projects include studies of enterprise linked data, energy informatics, semantic information management, and community-based data curation.Edward has worked extensively with industry and government advising on the adoption patterns, practicalities, and benefits of new technologies to enhance information architectures and flows within their organizations. His research has investigated the utilization of these advanced technologies within the pharmaceutical, oil & gas, financial, advertising, media, manufacturing, health care, ICT, and automotive industries. He has a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway, has published journal and book articles and has spoken at international conferences and workshops. He is an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway.Specialties: Enterprise linked data, energy informatics, semantic information management, community-based data curation |
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Dr. Maeve Duffy Power Electronics Research Centre (PERC) Phone: (091) 49 3972; Email: maeve.duffy@nuigalway.ie ——— Maeve’s research is in power electronics, with a focus on magnetic component design. Current research in power conversion for power harvesting sources (electromagnetic, piezoelectric) has application in distributed sensor networks used in environmental sensing and control. Experience in power electronics for computing loads may be applied to other building loads requiring a DC supply (e.g. LED lighting), including solutions for improving power conversion efficiency over a wide range of load conditions. Recently, this experience has developed into an interest in DC distribution, particularly for renewable and sustainable sources which produce electrical energy in DC form; e.g. PV, CHP. |
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Dr. Jamie Goggins Civil Engineering Phone: (091) 49 2609; Email: jamie.goggins@nuigalway.ie ——— Jamie’s research activities in the area of Sustainability and the Built Environment spans a wide range of areas, including the fields of structures, earthquake engineering, sustainable construction technologies, sustainable energy and life cycle assessment, including developing robust methodologies for estimating sustainability indicators such as embodied energy and carbon. Jamie is a charted engineer and has worked as a consultant on both national and international projects. He has also worked as a site engineer and project manager in both Australia and Ireland. He collaborates with both industry and international research institutes on many research projects. He has won awards for both his research and teaching activities. He is actively involved in the engineering professional body in Ireland, Engineers Ireland, and together with his students undertakes many outreach activities with the local, national and international communities. |
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Dr. Marcus Keane Informatics Research Unit for Sustainable Engineering (IRUSE) & Civil Engineering Phone: (091) 49 2619; Email: marcus.keane@nuigalway.ie ——— Dr. Marcus Keane has extensive knowledge and experience in Energy Efficient Buildings (EEB) and integrated Building Information Models (BIM). Dr. Keane is Director of the Informatics Research Unit for Sustainable Engineering (IRUSE) a dually affiliated research unit with NUI Galway and UCC. IRUSE has developed BIM’s for a number of buildings both in Ireland and the US through collaborations with our partners in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) at the University of California at Berkeley. The buildings of most significance include the New Engineering Building, An Spóirt Ionad, and The Nursing Library at NUI Galway and the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) at UCC. IRUSE has extensive experience of other software/hardware applications/systems that are used to populate BIM’s such as 3-D CAD modelling software, whole building and reduced order energy simulation software, and industry standard wired and wireless Building Management and Automation Systems (BMS/BAS).Dr. Keane is the lead PI in the Enterprise Ireland BuildWise Project (2007-2010), Scientific Director and Co-PI of the Science Foundation Ireland ITOBO Strategic Research Cluster (2007-2012), Co-PI on the HEA PRTL4 NEMBES project (2008-2012), Co-PI on the recently established Enterprise Ireland I2E2 Energy Technology Centre (2011-2014) and Co-PI on the EmWINS project (2011-2013) funded by the International Energy Research Centre (IERC) based in the Tyndall National Institute, UCC and IRUSE is the NUIG partner in recently funded EU FP7 CASCADE project (2011-2014) focusing on Energy Efficient Airports. Dr. Keane has published over 100 scientific papers and secured in excess of €3.5million in research grants in 2007-2013. IRUSE industrial partners include Intel Ireland, Hewlett Packard, DePuy, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, D’Appolonia Spa, Arup, RPS Consulting and Irish SME’s that include Cylon Controls Ltd., Enerit, Wirelite, Vector FM, EI Electronics. Academic Collaborators include: Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Cork Institute of Technology, Fraunhofer Institute ISE (Freiburg), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) at UC Berkeley. |
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Dr. Hugh Melvin Information Technology and Performance Engineering Laboratory Phone: (091) 49 3716; Email: hugh.melvin@nuigalway.ie ——— Dr. Hugh Melvin has been based at the Discipline of Information Technology, NUI Galway since 1997. In the context of Ryan Institute, his research interests include RealTime Systems and Energy & Environmental Informatics. Collaborations in this space have ranged from Building Energy Modelling, Visualisation of Live BMS Building data and Embodied Energy. More details of broad research interests can be found at http://pel.it.nuigalway.ie |
