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This experts directory is a searchable database of Queen’s academics who are interested in talking to the media about their areas of expertise.
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Professor Robertson is an Energy and Environmental Engineer with expertise in advanced technologies for water sustainability and solar energy generation/storage.
Expertise: Water sustainability, waste and potable water treatment. Renewable/sustainable energy, including solar energy and solar fuel generation such as renewable hydrogen. Technology for net zero engineering.
Expert in socio-political implications of Artificial Intelligence and allied technologies. Research includes relationships between AI and disinformation, democracy, elections and cooperativism.
Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Critical Studies of Technology
Professor of Politics and Public Policy, and Head of Politics and International Relations.
Expertise: Irish Politics; Irish Government and Politics; International Public Policy; Technology, Government and Society; and State Administration.
Professor Bowman’s research is focused on the development and evaluation of advanced materials for data storage technology.
Expertise: data storage technology, rare earth magnetism, rare-earth-ferromagnetic coupling phenomena, synthetic magnetic multilayers, plasmonic materials
Professor Christopher McCabe is a health economist, specialising in the field of health technology assessment.
Expertise: Economics of health care, health care market access, and economic issues of infectious disease outbreaks.
Dr Skvortsov is an expert in bacteriophages and their enzymes as novel antimicrobials and biotechnological tools.
Expertise: Bacteriophages, Viruses, Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Biotechnology, Microbial Bioinformatics, Antimicrobial Resistance
Professor Hewitt-Dundas' research interests include the dynamics of innovation ecosystems in an international context, innovation, technology transfer and networks with an emphasis on small and medium enterprises, business strategy and technology adoption.
Expertise: business, innovation, business growth, technology adoption, management, industry
Professor Donnelly holds the Chair in Pharmaceutical Technology in the School of Pharmacy and is Director of the university’s £3M pioneer research programme Materials & Advanced Technologies for Healthcare, comprising 55 academics from Pharmacy, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Biological Sciences, Nursing and Medicine.
Expertise: Drug delivery, pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology
Professor De Silva built the fluorescent PET sensor design tool generally useful for molecular scientists, collaborated to construct the market-leading OPTI blood electrolyte/gas analyser and invented the experimental field of molecular logic-based computation.
Expertise: sensor technology, chemistry, photophysics, photochemistry, sensors