Working in Research and Academia

Many of our UCD Science graduates continue their studies to master’s or PhD doctoral degree level at UCD and at other institutions worldwide. Leading UCD Institutes and Research Centres include the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, the UCD Conway Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Research and UCD CASL (Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory).

After completing their postgraduate degrees, many Science graduates will continue to work in research in companies or at universities located in Ireland and all over the world.

• Ms Olga Lastovetsky- PhD Cornell University (due to start September 2011) NEW
  "Science at UCD was my top choice on the CAO form. I knew then that I was interested in biology and chemistry as well as in environmental science." Read more..

• Dr Caroline Brophy - Lecturer in Statistics at NUI Maynooth NEW
  "I would recommend the School of Mathematical Sciences in UCD to prospective students; I found it to be a great place to study." Read more..

• George Ffrench, BSc Genetics, graduated in 2009
  "We actually know the genetic cause of many hereditary diseases. To cure many of them all that is needed is to insert a working copy of the gene behind the disease into the affected cells. However, in most cases we still need to develop a robust system of delivering the gene therapy. After my four years at UCD, I feel that I am well equipped to contribute to such a field.” Read more..

• Dr Simon Plunkett - Astrophysicist
  "I now carry out research in solar astrophysics and ‘space weather’ (the practical impacts of the Sun on human activities in space), using experiments on spacecraft and numerical models that I have helped to develop.." Read more
  
• Dr Joe Fitzsimons - Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford
  "Theoretical physics at UCD provided me, not only with a solid grounding in both experimental and mathematical physics, but also with some of the most enjoyable years of my life, including a 2 month internship at NASA." Read more..

• Dr Gráinne Hargaden - Assistant Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at DIT.
• "The wide variety of subjects and the flexibility to make subject choices at the end of first and second year attracted me to study Science in UCD"... Read more

• UCD Graduate Studies
• www.jobs.ac.uk