Assoc ProfessorConor Sweeney

Associate Professor

School of Mathematics and Statistics

  • Associate Professor
    School of Mathematics and Statistics
  • 01 716 2358
  • University College Dublin, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Science Centre - North Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Numerical Weather Prediction, Probabilistic forecasting, Statistical post-processing, Forecasting for Energy Systems, Climate modelling, High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence application to meteorology and climate.

GRANTS

  • PROJECT GRANT
    UCD Breaking Boundaries Seed Fund
    University College Dublin (UCD)30 Sep 2026 - 30 Sep 2028
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Evapotranspiration for Ireland (ET4I): Supporting agricultural decisions by producing daily gridded ET and ET0 maps at 1 km resolution for Ireland
    Teagasc4 Sep 2023 - 3 Sep 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sweeney C
  • GRANT
    Climate Change for Actuaries
    Invest Northern Ireland8 Jul 2021 - 26 Feb 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sweeney C
  • GRANT
    Supporting Energy Communities- Operational Research and Energy Analytics
    Irish Research Council (IRC)26 Apr 2021 - 27 Apr 2025
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    School Funded Account
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 Mar 2021 - 28 Feb 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sweeney C
  • GRANT
    IEA Task 36 - Forecasting for Wind Energy
    Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)1 Jun 2017 - 8 Jun 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sweeney C
  • GRANT
    A Filtering Integration Scheme for Improved Weather Prediction and Climate Simulation Models
    Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Oct 2015 - 30 Sep 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sweeney C,
    • Lynch P
  • GRANT
    Extreme Events in Calibrated Climate Models: Impacts for Ireland
    Environmental Protection Agency (Epa)1 Jan 2013 - 30 Nov 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Parnell A,
    • Sweeney C