Institute Leadership Team
Our Institute Leadership Team is responsible for the day to day running of the institute and reports to the Board on a quarterly basis.
- Chief Executive Officer – Professor William Scanlon
- Chief Operations Officer – Cormac Harrington
- Head of Photonics – Professor Paul Townsend
- Research Programme Director – Professor Cian Ó Mathúna
- Head of Advanced RF Technology Group – Professor Dimitra Psychogiou
- Chair of Research Committee (Interim) – Dr Michael Nolan
- Head of Biophotonics – Professor Stefan Andersson-Engels
- Head of Nanotechnology – Dr Aidan Quinn
- Executive Director of MCCI – John Morrissey
- Head of Graduate Studies & EPE – Dr Fatima Gunning
- Head of EU Programmes – Dr Georgos Fagas
- Head of Photonics Operations – Dr Patrick Morrissey
- Head of Specialty Products & Services – Dr Graeme Maxwell
- Commercial Director – Peter Smyth
- Marketing & Communications Manager – Ursula Morrish.
Board Members
- Dr Denis Doyle – Chairperson, Founder and Principal at Resonance Consulting and Coaching Limited
- Prof. William Scanlon – CEO, Tyndall National Institute
- Prof. John F. Cryan – Vice President for Research & Innovation, UCC
- Caroline Dowling – Director, DCC Plc & IMI Plc
- Prof. Bram Nauta – Distinguished University Professor, University of Twente
- Sean O’Sullivan – Founder, SOSV
- Prof. Richard V Penty – Professor of Photonics, Cambridge University
- Patricia Reilly – Head of Cabinet to European Commissioner Mairéad McGuinness, Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union
- Prof. Steven A. Ringel – Distinguished University Professor, Ohio State University
- Prof. Birgitte Bak-Jensen – Distinguished University Professor, Aalborg University
- Susan Feindt – ADI Fellow, Analog Devices
- Bob Savage – Vice President, Regional CIO for EMEA and Cork Site Leader, Dell Technologies.
