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Dr Sinéad Currivan-Macdonald

Principal Investigator

Tel: +353 12207994

Dr Sinéad Currivan-Macdonald is a lecturer and principal investigator with TU Dublin. She completed her PhD in 2012, and following her role in the pharmaceutical industry, she took up several postdoctoral positions including the University of Pardubice (CZ), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), University of Tasmania (AUS), and the University of Amsterdam (NL), before returning to Ireland as an Analytical/Materials scientist at CREST. Her research has involved the development and characterisation of novel monolithic columns for liquid chromatography, and has expanded into polymer modifications, 3D printing, and point-of-care devices. Sinéad’s current projects involve the development of novel monolithic columns for glycomics and lipidomics, their interfacial chemistry, and integration of monolith technologies into 3D printed materials.

Sinéad has been successfully funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry, Endeavour Fellowship, Chromsoc, Enterprise Ireland, and received TU Dublin’s Fiosraigh award. She has active academic collaborations internationally (UK, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore), and nationally with both academic, semi-state bodies, and industrial partners. Sinéad was recently shortlisted in the Analytical Scientist’s Power List 2025, Leading Voices edition, (https://theanalyticalscientist.com/power-list/2025/). Sinéad is actively supervising postgraduate research students in TU Dublin, and the State Laboratory.

Key Research Interests & Synthesis Expertise

Polymers, Surface Modifications, 3D Printing, Nano-particles, Thermal Polymerisations, UV Polymerisations, UV Grafting Techniques, Monolithic Capillary Columns, AAS, analytical separations in HPLC, IC, and GC techniques, Capacitively Coupled Contactless Conductivity Detection, Materials, Scanning electron microscopy.

Publications and research outputs at ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6984-2842