Introduction
Each of the seven schools in the UCD College of Science engages in exciting and internationally recognised research, which is funded by a variety of agencies including Science Foundation Ireland, the European Union, the Health Research Board, the Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology and the Wellcome Trust. Reflecting the level of funding and productivity are over 600 postgraduate research students and a large body of postdoctoral scientists, who play a key role in the research efforts.
Investment in infrastructure, which is crucial to the continued excellence in research training and output, is a continuing priority of UCD’s strategy and is exemplified most recently with the upgrading of the UCD Science Centre.
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Innovation
Together with teaching and research, innovation is recognised as a third pillar encompassing university activity. In conjunction with UCD’s Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre, Nova, commercialisation of the research on-going in the College of Science is realised through licensing arrangements with established enterprises and the development of spin-out companies including:
- UCD Conway Institute
- UCD Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory
- Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology
- UCD Earth Sciences Institute
- Centre for BioNano Interactions
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Collaboration
Significant advances in scientific understanding are most often achieved by interdisciplinary research, which is conducted within each school, across schools and colleges in UCD, and with researchers and institutions across the world. There are several centres of interdisciplinary collaboration within UCD to which many of our Principal Investigators are aligned:
Research Institutes and Centres
SFI Centres for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSETs)
UCD-led SFI Strategic Research Clusters (SRCs)
range of joint degrees comprising two science subjects.
