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SBFE Spin-out Proveye signs €900k contract with European Space Agency

SBFE Spin-out Proveye has signed a second contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), valued at €900,000.

The remote sensing company uses satellite and drone image processing and AI to monitor land use for biodiversity and food production.

Two UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering Professors Named Highly Cited Researchers for 2024 19Nov
Two UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering Professors Named Highly Cited Researchers for 2024

Professor Da-Wen Sun and Head of School, Professor Paula Bourke, have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate for 2024. This is the 10th consecutive year for Professor Sun, and the 5th consecutive year for Professor Bourke to be ranked among the top 1% of the most cited researchers globally.
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Dr Junli Xu awarded prestigious European Research Council funding for Cutting-Edge Microplastics Research

School Faculty Dr Junli Xu is among 494 young scholars to receive European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants today. The funding - totalling nearly €780 million - is part of the EU Horizon Europe programme and will support the scholars to launch cutting-edge research projects.

SBFE research fellow Xiaohui Lin receives the MSCA DOROTHY COFUND award 22Jul
SBFE research fellow Xiaohui Lin receives the MSCA DOROTHY COFUND award

Dr Xiaohui Lin, a research fellow in the School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, has received the MSCA DOROTHY COFUND award, for her research tackling major public health challenges.
Biosystems and Food Engineer Receives 2024 NovaUCD Innovation Champion of the Year Award 12Apr
Biosystems and Food Engineer Receives 2024 NovaUCD Innovation Champion of the Year Award

A total of seven awards were presented by UCD President Professor Orla Feely who said the NovaUCD Innovation Awards were a “key annual event highlighting the University’s commitment to innovation and recognise the achievements of our research, innovation and entrepreneurial communities and I congratulate all who have received this year’s Awards.”
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Minister Coveney Announces €7 million in Funding to UCD and Teagasc to Deliver New Entrepreneurship Programme to Create More Food and Agriculture Start-Ups and Jobs

Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment has today announced €7 million in funding, over the next 6 years, to University College Dublin (UCD) to deliver a new food and agriculture innovation and entrepreneurship training programme, in partnership with Teagasc.
International Conference on Microplastics, Nanoplastics and Human Health header 04Mar
International Conference on Microplastics, Nanoplastics and Human Health.

This international conference is dedicated to bringing together experts across disciplines to address the overarching theme of “Evidence-based research uncovering the intricate relationships between microplastics and human health”. In a hybrid format, participants can choose to attend in person or virtually. The conference's in-person segment will take place in Dublin, Ireland.
Professor Da Wen Sun 12Oct
Professor Da-Wen Sun Elected as Fellow of the Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)

Professor Da-Wen Sun, from UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, achieved the prestigious distinction of being named a Fellow of the Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), marking the highest level of recognition within this esteemed organization. The AAIA bestowed this honour upon Professor Da-Wen Sun in recognition him as “the top scientist with outstanding achievements in the area of applications of machine learning techniques for enhancing non-destructive food quality and safety”.
IEA Bioenergy logo 05Oct
Workshop Announcement - Sustainability Series Workshop on Food Waste

IEA Bioenergy Task 36 Material and Energy Valorisation of Waste in a Circular Economy (previously known as Integrating Energy Recovery into Solid Waste Management Systems) is an international working group which seeks to raise public awareness of sustainable energy generation from biomass residues and waste fractions including municipal solid waste (MSW) as well as to increase technical information dissemination. This participatory workshop will aim to inform and engage participants in a discussion about sustainability and food waste.
Two men standing and smiling 20Sep
SBFE spin-out named Start-Up Innovator of the Year at Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena Awards

Congratulations to SBFE's Professor Nick Holden and Dr Jerome O'Connell of Proveye, who have won the 2023 Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena Best Start Up Award, announced at the National Ploughing Championships. Proveye was also named winner of the Ace Agritech Centre of Excellence Award. 
Two men standing together 28Apr
University College Dublin Spin-out Secures €1 million in Seed Funding

Proveye, a UCD spin-out company established by School Faculty Prof Nick Holden and Dr Jerome O’Connell, and a leader in remote sensing image analysis for agriculture, has closed a €1 million seed funding round to advance the company’s growth strategy.

A man smiling and holding an award 31Mar
Congratulations to Dr Joseph Sweeney who has received the 2023 NovaUCD Invention of the Year Award

Dr Joseph Sweeney, a research fellow in our School, has received the 2023 NovaUCD Invention of the Year Award for his patented Disruptive Biosensors with Industrial Bioprocessing Applications invention. Dr Sweeney was presented with the award by Prof Mark Rogers, Acting UCD President, at yesterday’s ceremony at the UCD University Club.

Professor Enda Cummins, Deputy Head of UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, Pamela Byrne, CEO Food Safety Authority of Ireland, Associate Professor Tom Curran, Vice-Principal for Internationalisation, UCD College of Engineering and Architecture and Dr Dimitrios Argyropoulos (WATSON Coordinator), Assistant Professor, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering. 15Mar
Launch of WATSON Project at UCD

WATSON is a new €11 million Horizon Europe project which aims to develop a set of tools and systems that can detect and prevent fraudulent practices across the food supply chain. It will increase transparency through improved track-and-trace mechanisms
Professor Paula Bourke 14Mar
New Approaches to Plasma Therapy may Improve Medical Implant Outcomes

The race is on to find new and effective ways of treating antimicrobial resistant pathogens, which represent a major threat to the health of patients undergoing surgery for medical implants. Bacterial infection is one of the most common problems associated with such surgery, compounded by the absence of new antibiotics to take up the battle. But a tripartite team involving researchers at UCD and QUB and at Jefferson University in Philadelphia are pioneering new approaches.
Shining the Food Safety Spotlight on Viral Contamination in Food 31Jan
Shining the Food Safety Spotlight on Viral Contamination in Food

Food safety is vitally important to the wellbeing of a community and setting standards to prevent the spread of microbial contamination is an important role for regulators. But regulators across the world have found it far more difficult to set standards for viral than for bacterial contamination. At a biological level, the main difference between the two is that while bacteria are free-living cells that can live inside or outside a body, viruses are a non-living collection of molecules that need a host to survive.
Prov-Eye wins the Ornua Most Innovative AgTech Start-up 2022 award in AgTechUCD’s inaugural Accelerator Programme 25Jan
Prov-Eye wins the Ornua Most Innovative AgTech Start-up 2022 award in AgTechUCD’s inaugural Accelerator Programme

The UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering spin-out company Prov-Eye has won the Ornua Most Innovative AgTech Start-up 2022 category and €10,000 prize.
SBFE PhD student Alejandro Vergara wins 2021 EI Young Innovator Award 25Jan
SBFE PhD student Alejandro Vergara wins 2021 EI Young Innovator Award

SBFE PhD student Alejandro Vergara has won the Young Innovator prize at this year's Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena Awards.
Alejandro is the founder of Carbon Harvesters, an agtech start-up that monitors farms' emissions on a weekly basic with the aim of promoting economic climate mitigation strategies, such as monetising verified emissions reductions through the carbon offsets market.
UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering Professor Named Highly Cited Researcher for 7th Consecutive Year 25Jan
UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering Professor Named Highly Cited Researcher for 7th Consecutive Year

Professor Da-Wen Sun has been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate for 2021. This is the 7th consecutive year that Professor Sun is ranked among the world’s most influential researchers.

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