Geraldine Boylan is Professor of Neonatal Physiology, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University College Cork and Director of the Irish Centre for Maternal & Child Health Research - INFANT www.infantcentre.ie

Geraldine Boylan is Professor of Neonatal Physiology at UCC and is the Director of the INFANT research centre www.infantcentre.ie Geraldine has worked in the area of clinical neurophysiology for many years and since 1996 has worked exclusively in the field of neonatal neurophysiology. Geraldine leads the Neonatal Brain Research Group at the INFANT centre - a multidisciplinary research team focused on neurological monitoring of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, particularly for seizure detection and the early diagnosis of brain injury. Researchers in the team develop automated algorithms for monitoring brain activity and monitoring tools for physiological data acquisition. They developed a seizure detection algorithm for newborn infants and a Wellcome Trust funded clinical trial evaluating the clinical efficacy of this algorithm was completed in 8 centres across Europe www.anserstudy.com. Geraldine was also the co-coordinator of the EU funded NEMO study, Europe’s first multicentred dose finding and safety study of bumetanide for the treatment of seizures in newborn infants http://www.nemo-europe.com Geraldine is Director of the INFANT Research Centre which was established in 2013 under the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre Programme and is dedicated to maternal and child health research. The overarching vision of INFANT is to advance maternal and child health translational research and to place Ireland to the forefront of this field. INFANT is hosted by University College Cork (UCC) and is focused on delivering scientific excellence and impact through a range of activi