Professor Dermot Diamond

Dermot Diamond received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from Queen’s University Belfast (Chemical Sensors, 1987, Internet Scale Sensing, 2002), and was Vice president for Research at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland (2002-2004).

He has published over 250 peer reviewed papers in international science journals, is a named inventor in 13 patents, and is co-author and editor of three books, ‘Spreadsheet Applications in Chemistry using Microsoft Excel’ (1997) and ‘Principles of Chemical and Biological Sensors’, (1998) both published by Wiley, and ‘Smart NanoTextiles’, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Volume 20, 2006.

He joined DCU in 1987 as a member of the School of Chemical Sciences, and was a founder member and director of the Biomedical and Environmental Sensor Technology (BEST) Centre at DCU (1995), which was the foundation for the successful €15 million bid to establish the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR) in 1999. In 2003 he helped to negotiate the award of €5.6 million from Science Foundation Ireland to set up the ’Adaptive Information Cluster’ (AIC), a major research initiative in the area of wireless sensor networks.

He was former Director of the 'Centre for Bioanalytical Sciences’, a €10.6 million research partnership between DCU, NUIG and the international pharma company Bristol-Myers Squibb, co-funded by BMS and the IDA. He was a member of an OECD panel reviewing national strategy for research in Bulgaria 2004-2005 and co-author of report on education and research strategy for Bulgaria in the series 'Reviews of National Policies for Education’, entitled ’Bulgaria - Science, Research and Technology’, December 2004. In 2006 Dermot was chosen as one of only 7 SFI-funded eminent Irish scientists profiled in a book, DVD and broadcast on national TV called “Flashes of Brilliance”.

Professor Diamond was director of the National Centre for Sensor Research at DCU (2007-2010). He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the international journal ‘Talanta’.  In 2002 he was awarded the inaugural silver medal for Sensor Research by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, and in 2008 he was received the DCU President’s Research award.

Details of his research can be found here.