Frontloading Impact: S-Shaped Research Strategies

By Dr. William Lee The way in which research is judged and research proposals are evaluated for funding is changing. National and European funding agencies are telling

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From a MSc to a PhD

Hello there, my name is Niall McInerney and I have just begun the second year of my PhD studies in the University of Limerick. Before I

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Applying PhD Research Skills to Entrepreneurship

Mark Twain once said “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education”. Pop-culture entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg

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The President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Programme

The Science Foundation Ireland’s President of Ireland Future Research Leaders programme offers funding of up to €1,000,000 in direct costs for 5-years.  It is designed to

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An Insight into an Overseas Collaboration

Hi, my name is Kevin Devine. I am a PhD researcher at MACSI in the University of Limerick (UL). I started my PhD in October 2014

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ECMI Special Interest Group: Advancing the design of medical stents

Arterial stents have revolutionised the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD). Acting as a supporting scaffold, these small mesh devices are now routinely inserted into

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The industrial mathematics PhD

My name is Kevin Moroney.  I’m a PhD researcher in industrial mathematics in the MACSI group in the University of Limerick. Unlike more traditional PhD

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Co-simulation & UQ within the SIMUROM project

In many applications, coupled problems appear very naturally. For example, Fig.1 depicts a field/circuit problem, where a transformer can be modeled by a partial differential

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TyreOpt: Optimizing truck tyres

My name is Zuzana Nedělková and I am a PhD student in the optimization group at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology and University

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