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Ekene Umego successful PhD Viva

Published: Tue Feb 11 2025 - 12:28

On Friday 7th Feb Ekene Umego completed his PhD examination. Ekene has conducted research on capacity Building in the Irish Brewing and Distilling sector for Raw Materials Utilisation, By-products Management, and Environmental Impact Assessment.
Along the way managed to disseminate his research and develop some very interesting results.

His PhD, supervised by Catherine Barry-Ryan and Marie Byrne was part of an ongoing Dept Agriculture Food & Marine (FIRM) funded project, coordinated by Teagasc, Oakpark.

Many thanks to Ultan Mc Carthy (SETU), Orla Cahill and Prof Christine O'Connor for conducting the examination.
Ekene Main