ProfessorMichael Gilchrist
Full Professor Of Mechanical Engineering
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
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- Full Professor Of Mechanical EngineeringSchool of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
- 01 716 1890
- University College Dublin, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Engineering Building Belfield Dublin 4
BIO
Michael Gilchrist, PhD, DEng, FIMechE, FIEI, FIMMM, FInstP, is Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His leadership roles have included 7 years as Head of the UCD School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering (2011-18), and 3 years as VP for Research in UCD's College of Engineering, Mathematical & Physical Sciences (2009-11).
His teaching activities have variously spanned all undergraduate and postgraduate levels on topics related to materials science, materials processing, and engineering mechanics.
His research concerns the dynamic mechanical behaviour of non-linear materials, including both biological tissue and polymer materials. This has applications relevant to:
* micro-injection moulding of polymers,
* precision manufacturing processes for polymers,
* impact biomechanics of the human body, and
* the dynamic response of skin, bone, neural tissue.
Intellectual property from his research has been licensed to fifteen separate research groups and companies in Ireland, UK, Belgium, US, Canada and Singapore. He has been lead PI on in excess of €15m of competitively won research funding and two of his former students have established start-up technology companies. He has held Visiting Professor positions at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and at the CNRS & ENSAM-Paris (France. He has supervised some 60 research students (Masters, PhDs and Postdocs) to date and has published 300 peer reviewed journal articles. He has been the national representative for Ireland to the General Assembly of IUTAM, the International Union for Theoretical & Applied Mechanics. He has received institutional and national awards for his teaching excellence, and various international Best Paper awards for his scholarly research. His Google Scholar profile is available at:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8rNI3nMAAAAJ&hl=en
His teaching activities have variously spanned all undergraduate and postgraduate levels on topics related to materials science, materials processing, and engineering mechanics.
His research concerns the dynamic mechanical behaviour of non-linear materials, including both biological tissue and polymer materials. This has applications relevant to:
* micro-injection moulding of polymers,
* precision manufacturing processes for polymers,
* impact biomechanics of the human body, and
* the dynamic response of skin, bone, neural tissue.
Intellectual property from his research has been licensed to fifteen separate research groups and companies in Ireland, UK, Belgium, US, Canada and Singapore. He has been lead PI on in excess of €15m of competitively won research funding and two of his former students have established start-up technology companies. He has held Visiting Professor positions at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and at the CNRS & ENSAM-Paris (France. He has supervised some 60 research students (Masters, PhDs and Postdocs) to date and has published 300 peer reviewed journal articles. He has been the national representative for Ireland to the General Assembly of IUTAM, the International Union for Theoretical & Applied Mechanics. He has received institutional and national awards for his teaching excellence, and various international Best Paper awards for his scholarly research. His Google Scholar profile is available at:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8rNI3nMAAAAJ&hl=en
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS
- Full Professor of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity College Dublin, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Dublin, Ireland1 Jan 2014
- Head of SchoolUniversity College Dublin, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Dublin, Ireland1 Sep 2011 - 31 Aug 2018
- VP for Research & InnovationUniversity College Dublin, College of Engineering, Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Dublin, —n/a—, D4, Ireland1 Jan 2009 - 31 Aug 2011
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Visiting ProfessorUniversity of Ottawa30 Dec 1999
- Visiting ProfessorENSAM-Paris, LM-3, Paris, France1 Sep 2003 - 31 Aug 2004
- Associate Professor (Professor)University College Dublin, Mechanical Engineering, Ireland1 Oct 2003 - 31 Dec 2013
- Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)University College Dublin, Mechanical Engineering, Ireland1 Jul 1999 - 30 Sep 2003
- Lecturer (Assistant Professor)University College Dublin, Mechanical Engineering, Ireland1 Sep 1994 - 30 Jun 1999
- Research FellowImperial College London, United Kingdom1 Oct 1991 - 30 Sep 1994
- Research Assistant and TutorUniversity of Sheffield, United Kingdom1 Sep 1988 - 30 Sep 1991
DEGREES
- BENUI Galway IRL
- C Phys-
- CEng-
- DEngUniversity of Sheffield
- FIP-
- MEngScNUI Galway IRL
- MIEI-
- PhDUniversity of Sheffield