Professor Dolores O’Riordan
UCD Vice-President for Global Engagement
Professor Dolores O’Riordan is the Vice-President for Global Engagement. In this role she is responsible for the development and implementation of UCD’s Global Engagement Strategy. She is a Full Professor of Food Science with a research focus on the physico-chemical properties of food ingredients and creating food structures that enhance health benefits.
Her research programme has active links with colleagues in Europe, the US, New Zealand and China.
She is UCD’s lead investigator in a Private-Public Research Partnership, Food for Health Ireland (FHI) and has been the recipient of academic and innovation awards for her contribution to food research.
She has supervised 48 postgraduate students to completion and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Prior to joining UCD she worked in a research and development capacity with a multinational food company servicing global markets. She is a member of a number of national and European boards.
Email: (opens in a new window)vpforglobalengagement@ucd.ie
Phone: (353 1) 716 8630