TU Dublin Honours Research and Innovation Excellence at 2025 Awards Ceremony
TU Dublin has celebrated the outstanding achievements of its research and innovation community at the 2025 TU Dublin Research and Innovation Awards, held on Monday 3rd of November in the Concert Hall at the university’s Grangegorman campus. Now in their third year, the awards recognise the breadth of TU Dublin’s research and innovation ecosystem and celebrate individuals and teams whose work is driving progress across science, technology, culture, and society.
The school would like to congratulate our staff researchers on their achievements and contribution to the University.
Celebrating Excellence Across Disciplines
Awards presented on the evening; beautifully crafted by TU Dublin’s CreateLab honoured excellence across nine categories, reflecting the breadth and depth of the university’s research ecosystem. The winners were as follows:
- Sustainability Research Award: Dr Aoife Donnelly, recognised for research shaping European environmental policy.
Innovation Impact Award: Dr Swarna Jaiswal, for developing a patented biorefinery process turning agri-waste into biodegradable packaging
In addition, the ceremony marked the inaugural TU Dublin Research Impact Case Study Competition, celebrating projects demonstrating tangible real-world benefits across five priority areas.
Research Impact Case Study Award Winners
- Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Transformation:
- Nanomaterial-derived Biosensors and Diagnostics with Industry – Dr Bilal Javed & Dr Furong Tian, Developed low-cost, sensitive sensors for food safety and healthcare diagnostics, in collaboration with companies like 3M and PepsiCo, supporting innovation and PhD training.
Congratulations to all the staff who were shortlisted
Early Researcher Career Award
- Dr Bilal Javed, Dr Elena Alexa, Dr Grainne Scanlon, Dr Keith Murphy, Dr Keith Quille & Dr Mark Mulville
Established Researcher Career Award
- Dr Eamon Maher, Professor Fiona Lyng, Dr Furong Tian, Professor Max Ammann & Professor Yuliya Semenova
Sustainability Research Award
- Dr Amit Jaiswal, Dr Aoife Donnelly, Dr Eoin McGillicuddy, Dr Glenn Loughran, Dr Nigel Vahey, Dr Patrick Daly & Dr Philippe Lemarchand
Innovation Impact Award
- Dr Azza Silotry Naik, Dr Joseph Mohan, Dr Keith Quill, Dr Philippe Lemarchand & Dr Swarna Jaiswal