Louise Hannon is a Chartered Engineer and Research Fellow at NUI Galway, a graduate of Civil Engineering at Trinity College Dublin and later NUI Galway,Louise has considerable experience incivil engineering design and project management having worked in civil engineering consultancy for many years and led the road and arterial drainage design of some of Irelands major infrastructure projects. Louise was an Associate at Roughan amp; ODonovan Consulting Engineers from 2001 and opened the companys Galway Office in 2008. Louise joined NUI Galway in 2013 as a Research Engineer as part of an Enterprise Ireland funded research project concerned with the remote operational monitoring of water treatment facilities and completed a Research Masters in EngineeringScience in the area of water and working in 2016. In 2015, Louise was appointed as Project Manager of the the4.2 million EU FP7 Waternomics Research Project. In January 2017, this Project was successfully accepted by the commission with the highest commendation. Concurrent to the Waternomics Project, Louise began work, in 2016, on a 8.1 million, 4-year EU H2020 Project INNOQUA which seeks to progress to commercialisation an innovative nature based waste water treatment system. Louise project manages NUI Galways extensive administrative and technical extensive commitments in the project.In 2018, Louise gained a professional diploma in project management with the Institute of Project Management. In 2019, Louise secured 4.3 million funding for a 4-year long Interreg NWE Project ENERGE which seeks to address the issue of energy usage in the ageing post primary school building stock in North-West Europe. The ENERGE Project is led by NUI Galway and Louise is Co-PI of the Project. Louise is a member of the NUI Galway Green Campus Committee and the NUI Galway Community and University Sustainability Programme Board.Louisesresearch interests span a variety of areas related to water and energy management, waste water management and transportation with particular interest in improvingresource management byimpacting human behaviour.

Resource managementWater and Wastewater EngineeringTransportation