Dr. Murphy is a B.E (Civil)  graduate and holds a M.(Eng.) Sc. degree in Civil/Offshore Engineering and a Ph.D. in Coastal/Geotechnical Engineering.  He is a senior lecturer for Offshore Renewable Energy and Harbour and Coastal Engineering and offshore renewable energy  in the School of Engineering, University College Cork.

He participates in a large number of EU funded projects and is/was co-ordinator of FP7 LEANWIND, H2020 MaRINET2, H2020 MARINERG-i,  H2020 TAOIDE and HE MaRINERGi PP which are all related to advancing the offshore renewable energy (ORE) sector.

Jimmy is a CO-PI in the SFI MaREI Centre as well as lead of the Lir National Ocean Test Facility (Lir NOTF) and the ORE Technology group within UCC/MaREI which consists of up to 25 staff and post graduate students.

He supervises PhD and Masters students and has a number of publications in the areas of coastal engineering and offshore renewable energy.