Prof Jamie Goggins is a chartered engineer with more than 20 years of experience in consultancy, construction, expert advisory work and research on many projects worldwide. Effectively, as an engineer, he designs, creates, solves problems, innovates and uses maths and science to shape the world. To achieve this, he has built a multi-disciplinary team, which includes civil engineers, mechanical engineers, energy system engineers, architect and social scientist. Prof Jamie Goggins is Director of Construct Innovate, Ireland's national Construction Technology Centre which has 11 partner research performing organisations and over 100 Associate members (companies) currently research active on topics related to construction and built environment. He is also a Principal Investigator and Lead for Materials and Structures team in the MaREI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, which includes for 13 Universities, approximately 220 researchers and 50 industry partners. He was appointed as the 7th Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Galway in 2020, a position that was first held by Prof W. Bindon Blood in 1850. Within the University of Galway, he has also served as Director of Research & Innovation in the School of Engineering and has also led the development and delivery of the first two Sustainability Strategies for the university in his role as Chair of the Community University Sustainability Partnership (CUSP) board (2017-2022). As Director of the Sustainable and Resilient Structures Research group that he established in 2008, he has been lead principal investigator on over 50 research projects, most in collaboration with industry (total project value ca EUR73M). He has author or co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings (h-index 38). Prof Goggins research projects include the development of sustainable construction technologies, energy efficient buildings, life cycle analysis, ocean energy technologies (tidal, wave, offshore wind), earthquake engineering design methodologies, structural control and health monitoring, and computational mechanics. Prof Goggins served on the Board of Directors of the Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland (CERAI) from 2012-2022 and is former President (2016-2018) and Chairman (2014-2016) of the CERAI Board. He is an advocate for sustainable development. He is also actively involved in Engineers Ireland, the professional body for Engineers in Ireland, serving as elected member of Council (2016-2020), an interviewer for the Registered Professional Titles of Engineers Ireland and a term as Chairman for the West region, and continues to serve on the West Region committee for more than 15 years. Together with his students, he undertakes many outreach activities with the local, national and international communities, for example, through the Engineering for Humanities programme that he established in 2009. He has won awards for both his research and teaching activities (greater than 20 awards) and was selected as one of 20 outstanding young scientists around the world under the age of 40 to participate in the World Science Forum held in Jordan in 2017. Further information at http://www.universityofgalway.ie/structures

Prof Goggins core expertise is in developing sustainable and resilient structures for buildings and energy infrastructure. He founded the Sustainable & Resilient Structures research group at University of Galway in 2008. He is also Co-Director of Construct Innovate, Irelands national research centre for construction technology and innovation. His research group applies leading-edge scientific and engineering methods to develop the improved infrastructure and built environment required for sustainable social and economic development. They have a strong history of collaboration with industry and international research institutes. Prof Goggins group is part of the SFI MaREI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine and leads the Materials & Structures research area within that national research centre. Prof Goggins and his team have developed a world-leading large structures test cell in the Alice Perry Engineering building at University of Galway. This is one of the few test facilities in the world available for accelerated life testing of full-scale tidal turbine blades, but they also use it for testing other large scale structural systems. In this state-of-the-art testing facility, located in the Alice Perry Engineering building in University of Galway, Prof Goggins and his team are collaborating with and testing novel structures for world-leading leading marine renewable energy companies, testing large aerospace structures and testing various construction technologies. They also access other laboratories internationally to help deliver their research programme, such as numerous shake table test facilities in Europe for full-scale testing of structures subjected to real earthquake loading.

- Currently, lecture on the following programmes at University of Galway: BE in Civil Engineering, BE in Energy Systems Engineering, BE Mechanical Engineering, BE Biomedical Engineering, BSc in Project & Construction Management, PGDip in Construction Innovation, MSc in Construction Innovation, PGCert in Modern Methods of Construction, ME Civil Engineering, ME Energy Systems Engineering.- Programme director for BSc in Project and Construction Management, University of Galway (Nov 2009 to Sept 2016)