OVERVIEW 

Prof Jerry Murphy serves as Director of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) MaREI centre for energy, climate and marine, which was initiated in 2013, has generated €130 million in competitive research funding, and will graduate its 300th PhD in 2025. In 2017, Prof Murphy was awarded the Chair in Civil Engineering, only the 12th person to hold this post in 175 years. Professor Murphy has represented Ireland at the International Energy Agency (IEA) technology collaboration programme (TCP) in Bioenergy since 2007. He was elected by his international peers to lead the Biogas Task from 2016 till 2018 and for a second term from 2019 to 2021. In this role he grew this task to 19 countries, authored/edited 18 IEA Bioenergy reports, 23 case stories and chaired 12 IEA Bioenergy Symposia

He set up the Circular Economy, Energy, and Environmental Systems research Group in UCC in 2007; he has supervised 30 PhD researchers and published 220 peer review journal papers. Scholar GPS ranks his work in the top 15 academics worldwide researching “Biofuels.” He was awarded the Engineers Ireland Excellence Award (2015); Excellence in Marine Research (2017); adjunct professor of the University of Southern Queensland (2018); International Advisor to DBFZ (The German Bioenergy Research centre) (2019); the Mary B Upton Visiting Professorship in Cornel University (2024); and a Visiting Professor at The International Energy Agency (2024).

 FURTHER INFORMATION

Prof Murphy’s UCC Research Profile