Claire O Connell

What do you work on with the Marine Institute? For nearly 20 years I have been involved in long-term monitoring of the Burrishoole catchment ecosyste(...)

Your research is on parasites – what do you look at? I work on parasites that have complex life cycles spending parts of their lives in different anim(...)

How did you develop an interest in computers? I went to secondary school in Loreto, Mullingar, and one of the teachers was my aunt, Sister Concepta. (...)

Your research explores how our brain, mind and behaviour are linked. What drives your interest in that? The early 20th century was the era of physics(...)

Congratulations, you recently became one of the first women in Ireland to be a full professor in statistics Thank you. My friend and colleague Prof No(...)

A new, Irish-language brochure about European Space Agency (Gníomhaireacht Spáis na hEorpa) activities is helping to make Ireland’s involvement with s(...)

You work on endocrine disruptors – what are they? Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can mimic our hormones and disrupt our hormone system. Some(...)

Sometimes when things are tough, you just have to laugh. But could comedy also offer a way of communicating science more effectively? How has Covid-19(...)

We associate Covid-19 with lung problems, but you recently got funding from Science Foundation Ireland to look at it further afield in the body, can y(...)

Taking part in a new research project on Covid-19 could be as simple as breathing next to your phone for a few minutes. The project, led by a team at (...)