Professor Anthony Brabazon
Principal, UCD College of Business
Professor Anthony Brabazon is Professor of Accounting, Dean of Business and College Principal, UCD College of Business.
Professor Brabazon’s previous positions in UCD include Associate Dean and Director for UCD Smurfit School, Vice-Principal of Research and Innovation for the College of Business and Law, Head of Research for the School of Business and Programme Director for the Master of Accounting Degree. He was also academic project director for the design and construction of the undergraduate UCD Quinn School of Business. In addition, he has served in a variety of pro-bono and non-executive directorship positions in professional bodies and other organisations, including membership of the Ethics Board of CIMA and a member (and chair) of the CCAB-I (Accounting Standards Consultative Committee - Ireland).
His primary research interests concern the development of natural computing theory and the application of natural computing algorithms to real-world problems, including the domain of business and finance. He is co-founder and co-director of the Natural Computing Research and Applications Group at UCD. He has published in excess of 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and has authored or edited fifteen books. He has also undertaken a wide range of research collaborations with academic and industry partners.
Anthony completed his BComm and Dip Prof Accounting studies at UCD before qualifying as a professional accountant with KPMG. Subsequently he undertook postgraduate studies at number of universities including Trinity College Dublin, Heriot-Watt, Kingston and Stanford.
Email: (opens in a new window)anthony.brabazon@ucd.ie
Phone: (353 1) 716 8843