Associate Professor at University of Galway, Ireland. Physics Unit, School of Natural Sciences. Principal Investigator and Funded SFI Investigator for Science Foundation Ireland Frontiers for the Future. Research interests: functional materials and key enabling technologies for medical devices and biosensors, also ranging to chemical sensing, and process analytics. Carbon nanomaterials and Graphene. Optical/laser inscription & instrumentation, optical sensor systems, advanced functional materials (optical and electronic properties), and photonic materials and devices. Medical sensing and devices. Teaching: Laser Physics, Spectroscopy, Environmental Physics. 2002-18: Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Sensor Instrumentation at The University of Manchester, UK 2007-2018: Photon Science Institute (PSI) 2004-2018: School of Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science (CEAS). 2002-2004: Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science (DIAS) at UMIST 2000-2002:Reader/Associate Professor in Photonics at Liverpool John Moores University. 1990- 2000: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Applied Physics at Liverpool John Moores University. PhD (Engineering)-University of Liverpool MSc (Instrumentation)-UMIST BSc(Hons) Physics-The University of Manchester.