Assistant Lecturer

Email: Shane.OReilly@tudublin.ie

Tel: +35312205587

Shane has over 15 years experience in research, teaching and public engagement. Shane’s interests and expertise centre around applying organic molecules as diagnostic fingerprints to understand what’s happening in modern ecosystems and what happened in ancient ones by looking into the sedimentary and rock record. 

Shane received his BSc (Hons) and PhD from DCU (2013), studying carbon cycling and historical marine pollution through analysis of lipids and hydrocarbons from sediments. In 2014, Shane was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Career Development Fellowship, spending two years in Massachusetts Institute of Technology and over one year in University College Dublin. Shane focused on studying modern and ancient microbial ecosystems and molecular preservation in animal fossils. In 2018, having been awarded a Science Foundation Ireland Fellowship, Shane pursued his interest in research policy and strategy, helping to develop SFI’s new strategy and contributing to national research and innovation strategies and action plans. Shane then spent three years at ATU Sligo as an Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry in the Department of Life Sciences, delivering and developing teaching across a range of programmes. Currently, Shane is a lead Principal Investigator on externally funded projects totalling over €1m in value and with the aims of coming up with new indicators to better monitor the health of soils and discovering new compounds from marine microbes that could benefit society