Trinity College Dublin: 38 new Fulbright Irish Awardees will go to top US institutions to study

Dr Martha Finnegan with Professor John Hegarty

DUBLIN, 21-Jun-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Minister Charlie Flanagan, formerly of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Reece Smyth, Chargé d’affaires of the US Embassy in Ireland, recently announced 38 new Fulbright Irish Awardees including three individuals from Trinity College Dublin and a number of TCD graduates. These Awardees will go to top US institutions to study and collaborate with experts in their field.

The three awardees who are currently at Trinity are:

Dr Martha Finnegan is a doctor in psychiatry and research registrar at St Patrick’s University Hospital and Trinity College Dublin Institute of Neuroscience. Previously, she has studied bioethics and law. As a Fulbright-HRB HealthImpact Scholar to Yale, she will focus on combining bioethics and research methodology to find ways to support health researchers to undertake more clinical research with vulnerable populations.

Dr Jacek Kibilda ventured into the realm of wireless communications networks during his undergraduate studies at Poznan University of Technology and has since continued his journey down the rabbit hole of spectrum, antennas, and interference, most recently exploring models and architectures for future generations of mobile networks. He holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, where he is currently working as a research fellow with the CONNECT Institute. As a Fulbright-TechImpact Scholar, he will continue his research with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group at the University of Texas at Austin.

Fiona McDermott is a researcher and PhD candidate, based at the Connect Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications at Trinity College Dublin. While on her Fulbright-EPA Student Award at the New School in New York City, Fiona will undertake critical design research focusing on the practice of urban informatics, forms of urban intelligence and networked data infrastructures.