I completed my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at NUI Galway (graduating in 2013 and funded by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology Embark Scholarship) on the mechanics of cells. This research primarily focused on development and implementation of constitutive material models and adhesion models using the finite element method. During this time, I spent one year as a visiting scholar in the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2013, I was awarded a SFI Short-Term Travel Fellowship which I used to visit the University of Cambridge. This research collaboration expanded on my previous doctoral work to examine the kinetics and mechanics of cell adhesion. In 2014, I began a post-doctoral research project at the Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics on the tensile ductility and toughness of lattice materials amp; polymer foams. I returned to NUI Galway in 2016, originally as a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering, before moving to my current role in Biomedical Engineering.For more information, please see my personal website a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.mechbio.iehttp:www.mechbio.ie

Finite Element modellingSolid mechanicsbiomechanicscell mechanicsbiomedical engineeringmechanical engineering numerical simulations