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Abdoulah Ly

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Abdoulah hold a bachelor’s degree in food processing from the Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar (Senegal), where he grows a passion in process engineering and food technology. After these undergraduate studies, he wanted to learn more about sustainable process and energy production, and this motivated his move to Paris (France) where he graduated from the Université Paris-Saclay. During his master journey, he developed interest in research and did not hesitate to join the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec (Canada). His PhD project focused on developing dimensionless numbers to predict the pharmaceutical wet granulation endpoint. Besides, he developed a PAT tool to track the water content during fluid bed foam granulation and drying of a pharmaceutical oral solid dosage formulation. His current postdoc project focuses on using the full potential of multivariate data analysis to help accelerating the experimental work on lignin chemical and enzymatic depolymerization.

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Assistant Professor Jessica Whelan

Jessica Whelan

Assistant Professor

Jessica graduated with a BE in Chemical Engineering from UCD in 2002. She worked as an engineer for MSD in Ballydine, Ireland for two years before returning to complete a PhD and undertake postdoctoral research in the areas of bioprocessing, PAT and advanced control under Prof. Brian Glennon and Dr. Susan McDonnell. From 2012 to 2017, Jessica worked as the Director of Technical Operations for APC, an Irish company providing process development services to the pharma and biopharma sector. She then took up the role of Associate Director, MS&T Upstream at BMS Cruiserath. During her time there, she contributed to the start-up of the new biologics facility and worked on the development of next generation processes. In 2020, she joined the faculty of the UCD School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering to pursue her research interests in the biomanufacturer of biologics and advanced therapeutics and is currently Head of School.

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jessica.whelan1@ucd.ie +353 1 716 1894
Associate Professor Susan McDonnell

Susan McDonnell

Associate Professor

Susan McDonnell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering with over 30 years’ experience and expertise in the field of mammalian cell culture and bioprocessing. Susan has supervised 12 PhD research students to completion, 3 postdoctoral researchers and over 60 Taught Master’s students to date. She secured over €1.2 million in funding to date from organisations including Enterprise Ireland, Intertrade Ireland, Irish Research Council and UCD Advance PhD Core Scheme. Susan is the director of the MEngSc Biopharmaceutical Engineering programme since its inception in 2006 and in collaboration with Dr. Jessica Whelan and Prof Niall Barron has recently developed a Professional Certificate in Manufacturing of Cell & Gene Therapies and Vaccines in collaboration with the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT). Susan currently delivers modules in Mammalian Cell Culture, Bioprocessing Technology, Tissue Engineering & Downstream Processing

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susan.mcdonnell@ucd.ie +353 1 716 1893

Contact the Biomanufacturing Research Group

UCD Engineering and Materials Science Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
T: +353 1 716 1825 | E: jessica.whelan1@ucd.ie