Dr Sabin Tabirca graduated from Faculty of Mathematics of University of Bucharest with a 1H degree in Informatics. He obtained his PhD in 1998 from University of Brunel for studying new sequential and parallel methods for the maximum flow problem. He served as an assistant professor, lecturer, senior lecturer and associate professor in the Computer Science Department of Transylvania University of Brasov for more than 10 years. In 2000, after a short post-doctoral stage in University of Manchester, Dr Tabirca moved to UCC as a lecturer in Computer Science. Since 2010 Dr Tabirca holds a position of senior lecturer.

Dr Sabin Tabirca's research focuses on the area of Computation for Scientific Visualisation with main directions on 2D and 3D Visualisation for Life Sciences and on Visualisation for Mobile Devices. The research is carried out within the "Computational Resources for life science Research (CRR)" group, which is an interdisciplinary unit form with researchers from BCRI and CCRC. The focus of the CRR group is to provide ICT expertise and consultancy to life-science research from academia and industry. The CRR current research deals computational models and visualisation for cancer prediction, gene therapy, etc.

My current teaching includes CS 4402-Parallel Computing, CS 6102- Graphics Design, CS 6116-Mobile Multimedia and CS 6314-Mobile Application Design for the Department of Computer Science and AM 6011-Parallel Computation and Advanced Mathematical Models for the School of Mathematics. I am also involved in teaching the programming classes to the MPT class. My previous teaching covered a large spectrum of modules from programming, algorithms and data structures, graphs optimisation to more mathematical subjects.