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.

The DOROTHY programme is a postdoctoral research programme co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). Three Irish funding agencies, the Irish Research Council (IRC), the Health Research Board (HRB) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have collaborated to create this interdisciplinary fellowship programme. Read about the projects here: (opens in a new window)Ten new DOROTHY European Fellowships to tackle major public health threat | News | DOROTHY

Dr Lin will work together with her two supervisors Professor Aoife Gowen (at the UCD Spectral Imaging Research Group, University College Dublin, Ireland) and Professor Tom Van de Wiele ((opens in a new window)UG Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology, Ghent University, Belgium) on the project Protection of the human digestive system from micro(nano)plastic contamination. She will also carry out a secondment in the Bantry Marine Research Station to work with Dr. Julie Maguire.