RESEARCH DATA:

Total Career Publications: 16 (Google Scholar, January 2026)

Total Citations: 222 (Google Scholar, January 2026)

h-Index: 9 (Google Scholar, January 2026)

Total Career Research Income: €907,000

ORCID: httos://orcid.org/0000-0002-1186-3149

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=DJDi2y0AAAAJ

PhD's graduated (career): 5

Current PhD students: 3 (January 2026)

EDUCATION:

BSc (Pharm) - Trinity College Dublin (1992 - 1996)

Pre-registration pharmacist training - Pharmacy Department, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin (1996 - 1997)

MPSI (Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland) (1997)

PhD - School of Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin (1997 - 2001)

Diploma in Quality Improvement - Trinity College Dublin (2001)

DVetPharm (Diploma in Veterinary Pharmacy) - Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (2005)

Postgraduate Certificate (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) - University College Cork (2014)

Postgraduate Diploma (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) - University College Cork (2015)

MA (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) - University College Cork (2020)

Visiting Doctoral student - Prof. Guisseppi Campani lab, Dept of Pharmacy, Universita degli Studi di Siena, Tuscany, Italy (2001)

Post-doctoral Fellow - School of Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin (2002)

Visiting Research Fellow - Prof Bill Baker Lab, Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States (2016)

MRSC (Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry) (2003)

CChem (Chartered Chemist) - Royal Society of Chemistry (2009)

CSci (Chartered Scientist) - Royal Society of Chemistry (2009)

My current main research interests include 

• the expansionary roles of pharmacists in community, ambulatory care and integrated care settings,
• impurity profiling of substances subject to abuse and misuse
• novel teaching and other pedagogical activities pertaining to the discipline of pharmacy.

Main teaching interests

• medicinal and organic chemistry
• clinical pharmacy.

I have a particular interest in the synthesis, characterisation and quality control of drugs and medicines used in both human and veterinary medicine, in addition to natural products which are used or can be adapted for use as medicines.

In addition, I have a significant interest in exploring novel pedagogical methods and applying those methods within the classroom.

I am a Teaching and Learning Fellow for the UCC Diploma un Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

I have been a pioneer within the School in terms of the original establishment of the BPharm curriculum in UCC, which commenced in September 2003, in addition to overseeing its transformation to an integrated MPharm programme over several years, commencing in 2014.

I teach and contribute to modules across both the Schools of Pharmacy and Chemistry:

• BPharm
• MPharm
• MSc (Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality Systems)
• BSc (Chemistry)
• BSc (Chemistry of Pharmaceutical Compounds)
• BSc (Chemistry with Forensic Science)  

As part of UCC's and the School of Pharmacy's internationalisation strategies, I frequently teach pharmacy students at Future University Egypt (FUE), based in Cairo, Egypt.