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Dr

Elaine O'Reilly

Associate Professor, Vice-Principal for Research & Innovation - College of Science

School of Chemistry

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  • Associate Professor, Vice-Principal for Research & Innovation - College of Science
    School of Chemistry
  • 01 716 2961
  • University College Dublin, School of Chemistry, Science Centre - South Belfield Dublin 4

BIO

Elaine O'Reilly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1982. She graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) with a Bsc (Hons) in Chemistry (2006) and began a PhD in organic chemistry at UCD with Dr Francesca Paradisi.

In 2010, she moved to the University of Manchester where she spent four years working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the direction of Prof. Nicholas J. Turner. In 2014, she joined Manchester Metropolitan University as a Lecturer in Chemical Biology before moving to the University of Nottingham in 2015 as Assistant Professor in Chemical Biology. In 2018, she was promoted to Associate Professor at Nottingham and in 2019, moved to University College Dublin as Associate Professor of Chemical Biology. Her research focuses on the development and application of biocatalysts in organic chemistry.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS

  • Vice Principal for Research, Impact & Innovation in the College of Science
    University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland1 Feb 2022

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University College Dublin