Dermot Diamond's Biography

Dermot Diamond, Professor, Principal Investigator, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University

Dermot Diamond received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from Queen’s University Belfast and his D.Litt. from Ulster University. He was VP for Research at Dublin City University (2002-2004) and was director (2007-2015) and founding member of the National Centre for Sensor Research (www.ncsr.ie) at DCU. In 2002, he was awarded the inaugural silver medal for Sensor Research by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London. He was awarded the DCU President’s Award for Research Excellence (2006) and the DCU President’s Award for Innovation (2015). In May 2014, in recognition of his academic contributions and achievements, he was admitted to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy. In April 2015 he was awarded the Boyle Higgins Gold Medal by the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland in recognition of his research achievements. He is currently a Principal Investigator in the SFI INSIGHT Centre (http://www.insight-centre.org) and was co-chair of the EU Future and Emerging Technologies programme advisory group (FETAG). In 2019 he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the European Innovation Council (EIC), and chair of the Pathfinder Programme Working Group.