ProfessorFrank McDermott

Joined UCD Department of Geology (now UCD School of Earth Sciences) in January 1993 as Bank of Ireland Newman Scholar.
Appointed to the full-time lecturing staff in 1999.
Promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002.
Promoted to Professor in 2006. 

Promoted to Full Professor in 2022.
Head of School of Geological Sciences 2007 - 2011.
Head of School of Earth Sciences 2015 - 2018.
Head of Subject (Geology) 2020 - present
Director National Centre for Isotope Geochemistry (NCIG) 2021 - present

Member Executive Management Committees of the SFI-funded iCRAG Research Centre (2015-2019)
Member Executive Committee for ESIPP project (2015--2021)
Member of Board of the UCD Earth Institute (2010-2023) 

Geochemist with broad interests in aqueous and low-temperature geochemistry, mineral weathering, isotope geology and U-series dating methods, palaeoclimatology, atmospheric processes and energy meteorology.

Member of the Editorial Board for the international geochemistry journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2015 - 2023).

Elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA) May 2020.