Biography
Professor Kevin M. Ryan
From Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
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Professor Kevin M. Ryan is Director of the Bernal Institute and holds a Personal Chair in Chemical Nanotechnology in the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Limerick.
He is coordinator of the EU projects SiGNE and Si-Drive researching next generation sustainable batteries involving a large number of industry partners across the European battery value chain e.g. Analog Devices, Stellantis, Ferarri, SVolt, Delfort, TES etc. He is Co-Principal Investigator on SFI Centres AMBER & MaREI and holds SFI IVP and IRC Laureate awards.
He is a native of Limerick and graduated with a BSc in 1999 and a PhD in 2003 in chemistry from University College Cork. He subsequently held Marie Curie fellowship positions at Merck Chemicals Southampton, UK and at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, prior to joining University of Limerick in 2006 as an SFI Stokes Lecturer.
He has published over 200 academic papers and holds 10 patents with research interests in nanocrystals and nanowires for applications in energy storage and energy conversion. His research group currently 5 postdoctoral researchers and 16 PhD students are based at the Bernal Institute.