ProfessorAndrew Parnell

Andrew Parnell is the Met Éireann Professor of Data Science for Climate and Weather at University College Dublin, Director of the AIMSIR research institute for Artificial Intelligence in Meteorological Services, Innovation and Research, and Lead Principal Investigator in Decarb-AI, supported by AIB and Research Ireland: an Innovate for Ireland Centre. His research is in machine learning and statistical modelling applied to many different climate and ecological areas. He is currently Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of the Research Ireland Co-Centre in Climate, Biodiversity and Water, and a funded investigator in the SFI Insight Centre for Data Analytics. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and has received over €16m in direct funding. 

2025– present Lead Principal Investigator Decarb-AI, supported by AIB and Research Ireland: an Innovate for Ireland Centre.

2025 – present Director Aimsir: Artificial Intelligence for Meteorological Services, Innovation and Research.

2024 – present Met Éireann Professor of Data Science for Climate and Weather, University College Dublin, Ireland.

2023 – present Deputy Director Research Ireland Co-Centre Climate+ for Climate, Biodiversity and Water, Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland.

2022 – 2024 Director of the Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland.

2019 – 2024 Principal Investigator, I-Form Centre for Advanced Manufacturing, Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland.

2018 – 2024 Hamilton Professor, Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland.

2018 Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin, Ireland.

2016 – present Funded Investigator, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Dublin, Ireland.

2015 – 2018 Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin, Ireland.

2008 – 2015 Lecturer (tenured 2010), School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin, Ireland.

2005 – 2008 Research Fellow, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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