ProfessorRonan Gormley

Ronan Gormley is a graduate of University College Dublin in organic chemistry [BSc (1st class) and PhD] and has conducted post-doctoral research in the Universities of Michigan (chemistry) and Maryland (food science), USA. He also has a Diploma in Industrial Microbiology from UCD. He worked as a Senior Principal Research Officer and food technologist (plant foods) in Kinsealy Research Centre (An Foras Taluntais) from 1966 to 1988, then as Head of the Prepared Foods Department at Ashtown Food Centre (Teagasc), Dublin (1988-2006), and continued in that Department until April 2009. Since then he has been an Adjunct Professor in the UCD Institute of Food and Health. He has 700 publications including 145 in peer reviewed journals. He has contributed to a number of books as author and editor, and has presented extensively at national and international symposia, conferences and workshops. He has been involved over a 25 year period as co-ordinator and participant in EU food R&D Framework projects and also in COST projects. He initiated and coordinated the 23-country FLAIR-FLOW EUROPE dissemination project which ran for 12 years and spanned several EU Framework Programmes. He has participated extensively in the FIRM Food R&D Programme conducted by the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine including leadership of the RELAY dissemination project for a number of years. He received the 2017 Science to Society Award from the European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST) in November 2017.