Gerald Farrell received the graduate (Hons.) degree in electronic engineering from University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree from Trinity College Dublin, Dublin. He founded the TU Dublin Photonics Research Centre, Dublin, in 1995, where he led a team of postdoctoral and doctoral researchers. He is an Experienced Doctoral Supervisor, has been involved in a number of photonics research networks, is a Visiting Professor with a number of universities, and the Director for several years of startup company PX Instrument Technology, Austin, TX, USA. Prof. Farrell has over 420 journal and conference publications in the area of photonics and has led several long-term research collaborations with research groups in Poland, Australia, and China. His main research interests are in optical fiber sensing, including sensors for structural health monitoring and chemical and biosensors, which use a variety of sensor structures, such as fiber heterostructures, micro-fibers, and fiber-based micro-resonators.