ProfessorGareth Redmond

Gareth Redmond received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from UCD in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1995, also from UCD. His PhD research was concerned with understanding the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals as applied to DSSCs. During a postdoctoral fellowship at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1995 he developed an early electrode position route to spin tunnel junctions in ferromagnetic nanowires. After a postdoctoral fellowship in University of Bath in 1996 on the properties of nanocrystalling materials he joined the Tyndall National Insitute in University College Cork in 1997 as a research scientist and was appointed Group Director, Nanotechnology in 1999. He also served as a member of the Tyndall Institute executive management team between 1999 and 2004. In 2008 Gareth was appointed as Associate Professor in a joint appointment to the UCD Schools of Chemistry and Physics. He was appointed as Head of School of Chemistry in September 2014. The activities of Gareth's research group currently include microscopy and spectroscopy of nanostructures, application of molecular self-assembly to the fabrication of nanoscale information processing and biotechnology devices, and development of low cost nanostructure fabrication methods. He has published over 95 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of several patents. He has participated in and co-ordinated research projects within the EU 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programmes' Esprit, MEL-ARI, IST, FET, Growth, Life, Improving, Marie Cure and NMP actions and also within Irish Government funded Enterprise Ireland programmes, Science Foundation Ireland programmes and Higher Education Authority PRTLI Cycles 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,and 5. He has acted as a consultant on future research directions in nanotechnology, in Ireland, as a member of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation / Forfás NanoIreland Task Force (2005-2008), and at European level, to the European Commission. He is a past Chairman of the Self-assembly Working Group of the EUIST Programme, Future and Emerging Technologies Initiative 'Working Group on Self-assembly', 2000. He was a task force member, sectoral roadmap panel member & co-author of the Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation Nanotech Task Force and National Statement on Nanotechnology, 2004. He was a member of the European Science Foundation Standing Committee for Physical & Engineering Sciences EUROCORES Self-Organised Nano-Structures (SONS) programme review panel, 2002/2003 and 2005/2006. He has also undertaken EC, Royal Society, and Petroleum Research Fund research peer review and was external examiner for the M.Sc. course in Micro- and Nano-technology Enterprise, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 2008-2010. He is co-founder of Biosensia Ltd., a privately held point-of-use diagnostics company with headquarters located in Dublin, Ireland.