Lecturer

Email: catherine.grogan@TUDublin.ie

Tel: (01) 220 5720

 

BSc(Hons): NUI, Galway

MEngSc: Tyndall Institute, UCC

PhD: TU Dublin

 

Completed Ph.D. part-time, in the area of cantilever sensors in 2019 and is one of the main researchers on cantilever sensors in Ireland with + 20 years of industrial (e.g. IBM, Analog Devices) and academic experience, with excellent industrial and academic research connections worldwide, being one of the work placement coordinators in TU Dublin.

In 2021, Catherine (co-)founded, with 3 other PhD permanent staff members, The Group of Applied Physics (The GAP).

Catherine is currently (co-)supervising a PhD student in cantilever sensors. Catherine is a Member of the Research Committee in the School of Physics and until 2016 was the Erasmus coordinator for the School.

Member of the organising committee in the School of Physics, TU Dublin for the international "Workshop on Physical and Data Sciences in Health and Environment” - 24th May 2019. Catherine has collaborations with researchers from Tallaght campus, RCSI and University of Genoa. Catherine has three supervisory type roles in the School of Physics in TU Dublin.

1. Work Placement coordinator: I am one of the three work placement coordinators in the school of Physics, TU Dublin, ensuring efficient placement of on average of 35/40 students each year.
2. Year 2 tutor. Catherine is the year 2 tutor of the five level 8 Physics degrees in the School of Physics. Among the responsibilities, I prepare and present the exam marks at summer and supplemental exam boards each year.
3. Supervision of Final Year projects.

 

Publications

B. Lilis, C. Grogan, H. Berney, W.A. Lane. Investigation into immobilisation of lactate oxidase to improve stability. Sensors and Actuators B 68 (2000) 109-114. 

C. Grogan, R. Raiteri, G.M. O’Connor, T.J. Glynn, V. Cunningham, M. Kane, D. Leech. Characterisation of an antibody coated microcantilever as a potential immuno-based biosensor. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 17 (2002) 201-207.

C. Grogan, L Florea, S. Koprivica, S. Scarmagnani, L. O’Neill, F. Lyng, F. Pedrescho, F. Benito-Lopez, and R. Raiteri., “Microcantilever arrays functionalised with spiropyran photoactive moieties as systems to measure photo-induced surface stress changes,” Sensors Actuators B Chem., vol. 237, pp. 479–486, 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.snb.2016.06.108.

C. Grogan, G. Amarandei, S. Lawless, F. Pedreschi, F. Lyng, F. Benito-Lopez, R. Raiteri and L. Florea. “Silicon microcantilever sensors to detect the reversible conformational change of a molecular switch. Sensors, 20, 3, 2020, link

C. Grogan, F.Radford McGovern, R. Staines, G. Amarandei, I. Naydenova. “Cantilever-based sensor utilizing a diffractive optical element with high sensitivity to relative humidity.” Sensors, 21(5), 1673, 2021, link

 

Oral and Poster Presentations (the presenting author is underlined)

C. Grogan, L. Florea, L. O’Neill, F.Pedreschi R. Raiteri, and F. Lyng. Surface Characterisation of Silicon Microcantilever Sensors. Microscopy Society of Ireland Symposium, June 8-10, 2016 – Oral presentation.

C.Grogan, S. Koprivica, L. Florea, S. Scarmagnani, D. Diamond, F. Benito-Lopez, L. O’Neill, F. Lyng, F. Pedreschi, and R. Raiteri. Investigations into the use of microcantilever arrays activated with photoactive Spiropyrans as a model system to measure surface stress changes. International Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensing, Stanford, California, USA, May 1-3, 2013 – Poster presentation.

C.Grogan, S. Koprivica, L. Florea, S. Scarmagnani, D. Diamond, F. Benito-Lopez, L. O’Neill, F. Lyng, F. Pedreschi, and R. Raiteri. Use of a photo-actuated microcantilever array sensing system to investigate surface stress changes of photo-actuated molecular films.  International Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensing, Dublin, Ireland, May 11-13, 2011 – Poster presentation.