I am originally from Cork and attended UCC as an undergraduate student, graduating with a Joint Honours Degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1998. I subsequently completed a Masters in Physics under the supervision of Niall Ó Murchadha in 1999. Following this I move to Cambridge University, taking Part III (of the Mathematical Tripos), graduating in 2000. I then returned to Cork and completed my PhD in Physics in 2003 - again under the supervision of Niall Ó Murchadha – in which I considered the implementation of conformal invariance in general relativity and the implications for the initial value problem. I then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver working under the supervision of Bill Unruh. In 2006 I returned to Cork and changed my field of research to photonics and the dynamics of semiconductor lasers. I worked in Tyndall National Institute and Cork Institute of Technology until moving to my current position in the School of Physics in 2015. I also remain an Academic Member of Tyndall National Institute with my research group being co-located between Kane and Tyndall. I am an active researcher in IPIC, led by Tyndall National Institute. My research focuses on non-linear dynamics, and primarily the non-linear dynamics of semiconductor lasers. This includes analyses of coupled lasers in many different configurations with a view to advances in both fundamental physics and applied physics, including analyses of neuromorphic dynamics of laser configurations, optical combs for communications and swept source lasers for Optical Coherence Tomography.