Dr. David J. Otway is in charge of both the 1st Undergraduate Chemistry delivery. He is a chair of the university's Academic Council (AC) Mitigtation Committee, the deputy chair of the university's AC Teaching & Learning Committee, the deputy chair of the College Science, Engineering & Food Science (SEFS) Teaching, Learning & Student Experience Committee. Was previously the SEFS representative on the University VLE selection panel, and the Chair of the Chemistry Outreach, Public Relations & Admissions (OPRA) Committee, the Spectroscopy in a Suitcase (SIAS) co-coordinator, the co-designer of the UCC chemistry website, a UCC representative in the Republic of Ireland Section of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Is also a member of the teaching and examinations committee, a staff representative on the Student Chemical Society at UCC, a member of the Staff/Student Committee, a member of the Organization Teams for the 68th & 60th Irish Universities Chemistry Colloquia, and coordinator of a number chemistry modules (CM1200, CM1201, CM2201, CM1003, CM1005, CM1006, CM1007, CM2001, CM3028, CM4018). Dr. Otway obtained his BSc(Hons), PhD, ARCS, and DIC from Imperial College. He has held research posts at Georgia Tech., Atlanta, USA with Prof. W. S. Rees, Jr. , at Imperial College with Prof. Sir G. Wilkinson, FRS and Prof. P. O'Brien. He was a fixed-term lecturer in the Electronic Materials Group in the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London. He then worked for a start-up company - Amedis Pharmaceuticals Ltd, UK (later acquired by Paradigm Therapeutics Ltd, UK) initially running their chemistry function and this role later developed into being the Competitive Intelligence, Cheminformatics and Information Manager for the company (2001-2005). He moved back to academia (at UCC) in 2005.