Assoc ProfessorAnthony Cronin

Anthony is a lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics where he also manages and coordinates the teaching of UCD's Maths Support Centre. He joined UCD as a tutor and MSc student in 2003, and went on to hold various lecturing positions with UCD Access and Lifelong Learning Access to Science, Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine programme, the School of Business and the School of Mathematical Sciences. He completed a PhD in Mathematics from 2007-2012 under the supervision of Professor Thomas J Laffey on the topic of Matrix Theory, in particular, nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problems and associated areas in Linear Algebra.

He gained a BA in English and Mathematics from the University of Galway from 1997-2000, before completing the H.Dip in Education there in 2001. He subsequently taught English and Mathematics in the Holy Rosary College in Mountbellew, Galway and then taught Mathematics at Ardscoil Rath Iomhain in Kildare.

He spent a year teaching English in Berlin with the language academy Berlitz before returning to Ireland to do a Higher Diploma in Mathematical Sciences at UCD and subsequently an MSc in Mathematics from 2003-05 under the supervision of Dr Rachel Quinlan.

Upon completing the PhD in 2012 he co-founded a startup company Infonalis, a web based solutions platform specialising in music creation and content. As COO he helped the company secure accelerator funds through Enterprise Ireland, the New Frontiers programme and the Innovation Vouchers scheme. In 2013 he spent a semester lecturing on the Science Access programme at NUI, Maynooth, as well spending just over a year working in industry as a Senior Content Analyst and Researcher for the Learning Analytics company CCKF based in Dublin.

His current role (from September 2013) is as mathematics lecturer and Manager of the UCD Maths Support Centre (MSC). For more information on the MSC please check out the website at www.ucd.ie/msc

His research interests are Matrix Theory (nonnegative matrices and integer matrices) in pure mathematics and supporting university mathematics learning via technology and research-informed practice in the area of mathematics education.