Fergal O’brien

Fergal O’Brien is Professor of Bioengineering & Regenerative Medicine, Director for Research & Innovation, and Head of Tissue Engineering Research Group in Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), one of the largest advanced biomaterials and tissue engineering/regenerative medicine research groups in Ireland.

Following a degree in mechanical engineering and PhD in bone mechanobiology, he was a Fulbright Scholar in tissue engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School. Since his faculty appointment to RCSI in 2003, he has published over 230 journal articles in leading peer-reviewed international journals, filed 20 patents/disclosures and supervised over 40 doctoral students to completion.

He has a current h-index of 72 (July 2020; Google Scholar). He is a recipient of three prestigious European Research Council Awards. Other accolades include a Fulbright Scholarship (2001), New Investigator Recognition Award by the Orthopaedic Research Society (2002), Science Foundation Ireland, President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (€1.1. million, 2004), Anatomical Society New Fellow of the Year (2014), Fellowship of both Engineers Ireland (2013) and the European Alliance for Medical & Biological Engineering Science (2016). In 2018, O’Brien was elected as member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Ireland’s foremost body of experts in the Sciences and Humanities.