Dr. Joe Harrington is Head of School of Building & Civil Engineering at the Munster Technological University (MTU). He was educated at University College Cork and the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of Engineers Ireland.
Harrington has over 25 years of teaching and research experience and leads the Sustainable Infrastructure Research & Innovation Group at the MTU. His research interests include sediment behaviour, modelling and management in the river, estuarine and coastal environments. Dr Harrington has published widely and he has led and coordinated on behalf of the MTU a wide range of national and internationally funded research projects including the EU-Interreg funded CEAMaS, PHOS4You and SURICATES projects.
Harrington is a member of the EPA Dumping at Sea National Advisory Committee and a member of the Accreditation Board of Engineers Ireland and recently served as a member of Council of the Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland.
He has served as External Examiner for Undergraduate Programmes and Research Master and PhD Theses across the Higher Education Sector in Ireland. He has served on a wide range of Engineers Ireland Professional Accreditation Panels and QQI Programme Validation Panels.