DrJoseph Sweeney

Dr. Joseph Sweeney is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, UCD. He possesses a multidisciplinary background consisting of an undergraduate degree in Industrial microbiology, a MSc in Computer science and PhD in Biosystems Engineering. He has been able to merge these contrasting fields to develop novel genetically engineered E. coli - based biosensor platform technologies which he has developed for a number of bioprocesses including Anaerobic Digestion and Green Biorefinery.

Dr Sweeney has a particular interest in digital agriculture, agritech, green chemicals and green energy and is the Co-PI of the 1st ever Irish led Climate Action Life programme project - LIFE farm4more, which aims to effect climate change mitigation in agriculture through Green Biorefineries. He is passionate about applied close to market research and was the recent winner of the NovaUCD Invention of the year Award 2023 for his E. coli based biosensor platform technology.