Denis Griffin, Prof Mike Coey, Prof Lorraine Hanlon, Prof Barry Smith, Dr Dan Milbourne, Dr Eimear Gallagher, Prof Frank Barry, and Dr Nigel Brunton line up for the return of the successful RTE 1 science series 'The Investigators'
The latest series of "The Investigators", the RTE 1 programme which focuses on Ireland’s scientific contribution to the world, will feature a number of UCD’s top researchers.
The series is an entertaining and fascinating look into the work of Ireland’s researchers who are punching above their weight in the world and are quietly making a significant contribution to the improvement of all of our daily lives. This series will look at some of the most interesting projects which are currently underway and assess what the impact may be on our lives in the future.
The selection of projects is extremely diverse and ranges from the identification of a protein which may help to arrest and even reverse the onset of Alzheimer’s to the design of a camera which can picture an event in space which happened billions of years ago.
Each week we will focus on a specific area of life on which the Investigators are concentrating. The subjects are: Ireland in Space, Ageing, Sensors, Climate Change, Crops of the Future and the Nano Revolution.
UCD Researchers are featured in the following episodes, which are aired on RTE1 on Thursday evenings at 11.05pm:
6th November- Sensors and the World of Artificial Intelligence
Prof Barry Smyth, CLARITY and UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics
20th November - Climate Change
Prof Ray Bates and Prof Peter Lynch, UCD Meteorology & Climate Centre and UCD School of Mathematical Sciences
27th November - Ireland in Space
Prof Lorraine Hanlon, UCD School of Physics
4th December - Ageing
Prof Dominic Walsh, UCD Conway Institute
11th December - The Nano Revolution
Prof Kenneth Dawson, Centre for BioNano Interactions
