University College Dublin's strategy to 2030, Breaking Boundaries, calls out ambitious plans in key areas including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Sustainability, One Health and Cultural Heritage.
To support its ambitions, UCD is recruiting 50 new early career faculty under its Ad Astra Fellowship programme. This seeks emerging talented faculty in strategically important fields.
(Pictured: UCD President Professor Orla Feely and Chair of UCD Governing Authority Michael Beary at the strategy launch)
UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact, Professor Kate Robson Brown said: “UCD has a vibrant and dynamic ecosystem for research, innovation, learning and development, and we are very excited to see what new talent this round of faculty recruitment will attract to our university and to Ireland. Our strategy has called out specific, highly ambitious plans for the next five years and it is strongly indicative of our culture that we begin by investing in creative, fresh talent at the early career stage, where the boldest new ideas are often to be found.”
The previous hiring round of the programme attracted exciting new researchers to the Irish ecosystem, many of whom have obtained prestigious funding awards from the European Research Council (ERC) while at UCD. Explore the UCD ERC Showcase to learn more about these and other frontier research projects from the university’s world-class research community.
UCD will soon announce plans for a new AI research institute at its Belfield campus in Dublin, Ireland. This builds on UCD’s significant expertise and national leadership in AI and quantum computing combined with its broad discipline base, to advance research and education in digital technologies.
Last October, UCD Centre for One Health was designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre. UCD President, Professor Orla Feely commented at the time: “Joining a network of over 800 WHO Collaborating Centres in more than 80 countries around the world provides the UCD Centre for One Health with significant opportunities to exchange knowledge and information with other world-leading institutions, to strengthen Ireland’s national capacity for training, research and collaboration for health development, and to contribute to the international health agenda.” Read more about it here.
The university is now recruiting in a range of areas including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Medical Physics, Digital Chemistry, Ecosystem Restoration, Public Policy and Administration, Agri-food Systems Data Science, Antimicrobial Resistance, Health and Climate Change, and Digital Health and Health Informatics.
It is seeking hires specifically related to AI, including expertise in AI applied to diverse fields such as Advanced Manufacturing, Biomedical Engineering, RF Electronics, Food Engineering, Medical Data Analytics, Medical Diagnostics, Sport Performance and Digital Cultural Heritage.
UCD is also seeking the best emerging AI researchers in new and existing domains, such as AI-Driven Educational Innovation, Human-AI Collaboration, and Foundational Technologies and Models for AI and Machine Learning.
Visit the Ad Astra Fellowship website to explore opportunities at UCD.