ProfessorFrank Monahan
Full Professor
School of Agriculture and Food Science
- Full ProfessorSchool of Agriculture and Food Science
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- University College Dublin, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Science Centre - South Belfield Dublin 4
BIO
Frank Monahan is a Full Professor (Food Science) in the UCD School of Agriculture & Food Science and member of the UCD Institute of Food & Health. He is a former Dean of Agriculture and Head of School (2021-2026) and Head of Food Science and Nutrition (2011-2019).
He holds a B.Sc (Biochemistry), Higher Diploma in Education and Graduate Diploma in University Teaching and Learning from University College Dublin and a PhD (Food Science and Technology) from University College Cork. Prior to joining UCD he was a postdoctoral scientist at the University of California, Davis and a visiting scholar at Michigan State University.
He has over 200 published peer reviewed papers and experience in leading/collaborating on national funded research projects under Irish Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine, Teagasc Walsh Scholarship and Science Foundation Ireland (Research Ireland) programmes and participating in EU programmes.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- ProfessorUniversity College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandMar 2009
- Senior Lecturer/Associate ProfessorUniversity College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandSep 2002 - Mar 2009
- College LecturerUniversity College Dublin1 Jan 1994 - 1 Sep 2002
- Postdoctoral ScientistUniversity of California, Davis1 Sep 1992 - 31 Dec 1993
- Visiting ScholarMichigan State University1 May 1990 - 31 Dec 1991
DEGREES
- BScUniversity College Dublin
- GDip, Graduate Diploma in University Teaching and LearningUniversity College Dublin
- H Dip in EducationUniversity College Dublin
- PhDUniversity College Cork