Prof. Martin Leahy

Brief Bio Martin Leahy completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford and he and a colleague established Oxford Optronix Ltd., where he was Director of R&D. From 1995 he had various research and teaching posts at the University of Oxford. He then joined the Stokes Research Institute where he conducted industry led R&D and later the Physics Department at the University of Limerick where led research groups in energy and biophotonics and lectured in physics. He has secured more than €7M in external R&D funding since 2003. He is an adjunct professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, Fellow of the Institute of Physics in Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and Fellow of SPIE. He is a co-chair, executive organizing committee member and panel moderator for SPIE Photonics West BiOS in San Francisco and host of the BioPIC European Bioimaging conference. Editorial Board member of the Journal of Biomedical Optics. Prof Leahy was founding MD of Limerick West Windfarms Ltd. and Millstream Energy and PI on the research projects that spun out Biomass Heating Solutions Ltd. and Wheelsbridge AB. Since his return to full-time academia, he has played a leading role in graduate biophotonics education through NBIP, UL and the Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School. In 2010 he delivered a dozen international invited lectures and published more than a dozen ISI journal articles. He is currently Chair of Applied Physics at NUI Galway.

Membership of International Bodies/Committees

• Fellow of SPIE
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics
• Member of international programme committee of the European Microscopy Congress 2012  http://www.emc2012.org.uk/
• Member of international programme committee for SFM’08 Workshop on Optical Technologies in Biophysics & Medicine X, Saratov, Russia and again for, SFM'09, SFM'10  http://optics.sgu.ru/SFM/2010/
• SPIE visiting lecturer (  http://spie.org/x32202.xml) in "Biophotonics and Microcirculation Imaging"
• Programme committee and conference co-chair "Dynamics and Fluctuations in Biomedical Photonics VII, VIII -" SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco 2010, 2011
• Co-chair of Biophotonics Session - Photonics Ireland, 2009 and 2011
• Member of international programme committee for the 18th Advanced Laser Technology conference
• Member of international programme committee for ISQE10 XVI International School on Quantum Electronics: Laser Physics and Applications
• Member of executive organising committee for SPIE Photonics West BiOS  http://spie.org/Documents/ConferencesExhibitions/BiOS-2011-Call.pdf

Teaching Interests

Prof. Leahy began his teaching career in 1996 atNew College, University of Oxford  and has been teaching undergraduate  courses inphysics and related fields to large (300+) and small (<10) classes since. Hehas taught general physics, semiconductor devices, energy, physics for nursing,quantum mechanics, control systems and has developed new modules in medicalphysics and medical instrumentation.

Prof. Leahy currently supervises ten PhDstudents and has contributed to the development of two national graduateeducation programmes, in addition to chairing the international graduate summerschool in biophotonics and imaging (BIGSS). He has developed modules in TissueOptics (intro), Advanced Tissue Optics for Life Scientists, Advanced TissueOptics for Physical Scientists, Laser Safety and Biophotonic Methods inMicrocirculation Imaging.  His graduate students have won several awardsincluding the (IRCSET sponsored) Hamilton prize for best student in Physics andMathematics, The Institute of Physics Rosse medal (twice) and NBIP Irelandprize for best oral presentation from a PhD graduate. Dr Neil Clancy, won aprestigious Research Associate position at Imperial College's faculty ofmedicine, one of largest in Europe, with more than £108 million in researchfunding. Dr David Connolly, a graduate of 2011 has taken up an assistantprofessorship at Aalborg University and Dr Joey Enfield has accepted apermanent position with Fexco.

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