Senior Lecturer and Researcher

A Mechanical Engineering graduate from DIT in 1996. Postgraduate Research towards M.Eng. in Applied Physics in the area Silicon-based Gas Sensor Production in collaboration with Analog Devices at UL in 1999. Research at TU Dublin principally in the area of Smart Actuators and Instrumentation in Biomedical Engineering. This research has been focussed in two principal areas; The Characterisation and Modelling of Shape Memory Alloy Actuators, and Force Measurement and Feedback for Robotically-Assisted Minimally-Invasive Surgical Procedures.