Dr. Lorraine Nagle graduated with a 1H degree in Chemistry from UCC in 1994 and was awarded the Reilly prize for Chemistry and title of Scholar of the University. As an undergraduate she worked in Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and Nestle on Product Development. She performed postgraduate research into the active states of noble metals and the role they play in electrocatalysis under the direction of Prof. Declan Burke at UCC and graduated with a Ph.D. in 1998. She held the post of Chemistry Lecturer in UCC in 1998. Lorraine was awarded a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship on in-situ electrochemical STM at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society Berlin from 1998-2000. Lorraine performed Post-Doctoral research in the Nanochemistry group led by Prof. Donald Fitzmaurice in UCD from 2000-2003. In 2003 she was awarded an IRCSET Post-Doctoral fellowship at the NMRC and has held the post of Staff Researcher in Tyndall since 2007. Since then she was awarded funding from the EPA, CCAN, EI’s Commercialisation Fund, IRCSET and SFI. A ‘zero carbon emission’ micro fuel cell based on a direct borohydride fuel cell portable power sources was developed in the EPA-funded STRIVE fellowship as a clean, efficient decarbonised power source. Alternative carbon-free fuels including ammonia borane were also tested. In an EI Proof of Concept project she developed a novel platinum/carbon nanotube catalyst for a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) which was assembled in a complete micro DMFC in a follow-on EI Technology Development project. Lorraine was PI for a CCAN-funded feasibility project NPGOLD which demonstrated high activity at nanoporous gold for sensitive detection of volatile organic carbon analytes; methanol, ethanol, formic acid and trichloracetic acid and COD analytes; sodium oxalate, urea, nitrate, acetic acid and ethylenediamine. She is currently PI for CCAN projects NPSENSE with Biotector and Nan