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Dr. Síle Nic Chormaic PhD, MSc, BSc

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Dr. Síle Nic Chormaic PhD, MSc, BSc

Honours and Awards

Year: 1990.

Title: President's Award for Best Undergraduate Student in Science
Year: 1992.

Title: Science Bursary (EU) for PhD Studies
Year: 1996.

Title: Lise Meitner Research Fellow, Austrian Science Foundation
Year: 2008.

Title: President's Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching and Learning
Year: 2008.

Title: Recipient of SFI Conference Funding for hosting Public Lecture

Associations

Association: SFI ICT Scientific Adivory Committee, Function/Role: Member
Association: SFI RFP Advisory Committee, Function/Role: Member
Association: EU FP6 and FP7, Function/Role: Expert Reviewer
Association: Enterprise Ireland, SFI, IRCSET, Function/Role: Evaluation panel member
Association: QQQ Group, Institute of Physics, Function/Role: Committee member
Association: Institute of Physics in Ireland Branch, Function/Role: Committee member
Association: QuAMP 09 conference (Leeds University), Function/Role: Scientific committee member
Association: Optics Communications, New Journal of Physics and E. Journal Physics D., Function/Role: Referee
Association: IUPAP¿s General Assembly, Tokyo, Japan (Oct. 2008). , Function/Role: Ireland¿s delegate
     

Conference Contributions

Nic Chormaic, S. (2008) Irish Team Leader. [Other], UPAP Third International Conference on Women in Physics, Seoul, Korea , 01-OCT-08 - 02-OCT-08.
Nic Chormaic, S. (2008) Co-organiser. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Photonics Ireland 2008, Ireland , 01-JAN-08 - 01-JAN-08.
Nic Chormaic, S. (2007) Co-organiser. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Photonics Ireland 2007, Ireland , 01-JAN-07 - 01-JAN-07.
Nic Chormaic, S. (2005) ¿ Large number of conference presentations at international meetings each year including a postdeadline oral paper at CLEO/IQEC 2008. [Oral Presentation], Large number of conference presentations at international meetings each year, Varies , 01-JAN-05 - 01-JAN-05.
 

Employment

Employer: UCC/Tyndall

Position: Lecturer
Employer: Cork Institute of Technology

Position: Lecturer Career Grade
Employer: Cork Institute of Technology

Position: Assistant Lecturer
Employer: Max Plank Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany.

Position: Visiting Researcher

Education

Year 1990 Institution: St. Patrick's College, Maynooth

Qualification: B.Sc. Subject: Joint Honours in Experimental and Mathematical Physics
Year 1992 Institution: St. Patrick¿s College, Maynooth

Qualification: MSc Subject: Physics
Year 1994 Institution: Université Paris XIII, France

Qualification: PhD Subject: Docteur en Physique (PhD equivalent)
 

Consultancy

Client: : UCC
   

Other Activities

Research Grant Awarded by Enterprise Ireland. 'Nanotechnology and atom chip'. £3,310, 02/01-11/01.
Research Grant Awarded by Strand I Postgraduate Training. 'Monitoring of exhaust fumes using laser absorption spectroscopy'. £22,250, 09/01-06/03.
Research Grant Awarded by Enterprise Ireland, 'Carbon monoxide detection using fibre optic light transmission'. €8,888, 2002.
Research Grant Awarded by Ulysses Funding. 'Investigation of microsphere arrays for telecommunications applications', €2,500, 2003.
Research Grant Awarded by Enterprise Ireland International Collaboration. 'Monitoring of exhaust fumes using optical methods', 2,700, 03/03-03/04.
Research Grant Awarded by SFI Investigator Programme Award. 'Investigation of active and passive spherical dielectric microresonators for advancements in telecommunications and quantum information technology', €711,049, 09/03-03/08.
Research Grant Awarded by Strand 1 Postgraduate Training. 'Novel laser sources', €32,850, 09/05-09/07.
Research Grant Awarded by SFI, 'STAR supplement', €14,800, Summer 04.
Research Grant Awarded by SFI, 'UREKA supplement'.  €6,400, Summer ‘05.
Research Award Granted by SFI, 'STAR supplement'.  €14,348, Summer ‘05.
Research Grant Awarded by RIA/SFI. 'Coherent Control and its application in quantum information'  €24,500 + 70,000RMB (Chinese currency), 2005-2007.

Research Grant Awarded by SFI. 'UREKA Supplement',  €4,800, Summer ‘06.
Research Grant Awarded by SFI. 'STAR Supplement',  €14,000, Summer ‘06.
Research Grant Awarded by SFI. 'Cold Atom Manipulation'.  €159,000, 07/07-07/10.
Research Grant Awarded by SFI. 'UREKA Supplement'.  €4,000, Summer ‘07.
Research Grant Awarded by SFI. 'Equipment Supplement'.  €66,799, 2008.
Host of an SFI Walton Fellow for the year 2007-2008
4 postgraduates have IRCSET awards currently
• Profiled in the IoP Ireland "A Day in the Life of..." series
• Profiled on TG4's An Tuath Nua in Feb. 2008
Research Grant Awarded by SFI,'UREKA supplement' €4,800 Summer 04
Research Grant Awarded by RIA. 'Travel Grant'.  €1,800, 2008.
Research Grant Awarded by SFI. 'UREKA Supplement'.  €4,000, Summer ‘08.
Research Grant Awarded by SFI. 'SFI Industry Supplement'.  €35,000 2008-2009
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