Professor Patrick McGarry is currently Head of Biomedical Engineering at the School of Engineering at the University of Galway, Ireland. Having originally joined the faculty as Lecturer in 2006, he was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2017 and Professor in 2021. He has published over 100 papers in leading peer reviewed journals in the areas of solid mechanics, biomechanics, and advanced computational simulation. He has received several major funding awards from Science Foundation Ireland and EU-H2020. He has supervised 21 PhD students and seven post-doctoral researchers. His research has been awarded ten major international prizes by leading research institutions, including the World Congress of Biomechanics and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His research has been awarded the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland medal for best bioengineering research in Ireland on two occasions, in addition to the Engineers Ireland medal for biomedical engineering research on two occasions. In 2015 he was awarded the NUIG Presidents Award for Research Excellence. He has delivered 16 invitedkeynote lectures at leading international conferences. In 2017 he was appointed as Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Graz and as Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He held a visiting faculty position at the University of Cambridge in 2018. He has performed collaborative research with ten industry partners and six internationally leading clinical institutes in the fields of vascular, cardiac and orthopaedic biomechanics and medical device analysis. Prior to his faculty appointment at NUIG he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara, and at the National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science. He holds a PhD in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering and a M.Eng.Sc. in Hydrological Engineering.

Computational and Experimental Solid Mechanics, Numerical Simulation and Finite Element Analysis, Constitutive Law Development, Microstructural Modelling of Materials, Tissue Biomechanics, Cell Biomechanics, Stroke and Thrombus Biomechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Medical Device Design, Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Cardiovascular Biomechanics, Composite Structures, Turbine Design, Fluid Mechanics.