ProfessorPaula Carroll

Professor Paula Carroll researches and teaches Operational Research and Business Analytics in the School of Business focusing on problems that arise in the clean energy transition. Paula’s background is in electrical engineering. Her PhD was in the field of Combinatorial Optimisation. Her PhD thesis was titled "The Ring Spur Assignment Problem". She has considerable experience in both academia and industry having worked in Business Planning and Management with Ireland's former incumbent telco, and as a Software Developer with Ireland's semi-state electricity company prior to her current role. 

Paula was academic director of the Bachelor of Commerce (International) programme from 2013-2017.

Paula’s research has been funded by Science Foundation Ireland, the Irish Research Council, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, and Horizon Europe. Paula coordinates the CHISTERA SEC-OREA project “Supporting Energy Communities with Operations Research and Energy Analytics”, https://www.secorea.eu/.

She is founder and chair of the EURO WISDOM Forum to promote, support, empower, and encourage the participation of all genders in Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS). OR&MS are advanced analytical techniques to model and solve challenging real world problems. EURO is the Association of European Operational Research Societies., https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1654/wisdom.

Paula chairs the UCD Sustainable Energy Community (https://www.ucd.ie/sec/ ).