Jordan Singh Moss
My background is in epidemiology with a bachelor’s in veterinary bioscience, having experience in aquaculture vaccine development at Aqua Bio-Tech (Malta) and disease monitoring at the Wildlife Epidemiology Department of the Zoological Society of London (UK). I graduated in 2020 from an Erasmus Mundus MSc in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRsea). Since then, I worked at […]
Francesca Cucchi
I’m Francesca Cucchi, PhD student at the ATU and MI under the supervision of Luca Mirimin, Fiona Kavanagh, and Dave Clarke. I’m working within the PSP Safe Project, concerning food safety and the development of molecular tools for the detection of the toxic phytoplankton genus Alexandrium. My background is in biological science (BSc) and global change ecology […]
Sean O’Callaghan
I graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Freshwater and Marine Biology from the then Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) in 2018 where I focused on developing a way to measure live Irish common dolphins using laser photogrammetry for my thesis. I continued my measurement work during my MSc in Conservation Behaviour also at GMIT […]
Madhuri Angel Baxla
Miguel Blázquez Hervás
I completed a BSc. in Biology at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2017. My thesis was focused on ant behaviour ecology. In the same year, I joined the International Master of Science in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea) which took me to Oviedo, Ancona and, eventually, Galway (GMIT). For my master thesis, I studied the […]
Hayley Campbell
I hold an honours degree in Marine Science from the National University of Ireland, Galway (2016). I completed an International Master of Science in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea). As part of this programme, I studied in The University of the Algarve, Portugal (UAlg) (2017) and the MFRC in GMIT (2018). Following my masters, I worked […]
Moira Schlingermann
When I first began my academic career as a Forensic Science and Analysis Student in GMIT, I never quite imagined that I would end up working in a Marine-centered research position. Having been a student at GMIT since 2013, I cannot see myself happier anywhere else! As part of my undergrad, I took part in […]
Cilia Kootstra
As an undergraduate student, I pursued a BA combining Environmental Sciences with Literature and Linguistics at University College Roosevelt (UCR) in Middelburg, the Netherlands. My final bachelor project focused on how different literary texts present the marine environment. I then joined the International Master of Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea) and had the opportunity to study […]
Sara Ruas
I am a doctoral candidate in the Agro-ecology and Rural Development (ARD) group within the MFRC at GMIT. I am currently working in the FARM ECOs project. The main aim of my research is to provide stakeholders such as policy makers, farmers and advisors with the necessary evidence base for novel measures and practices to […]
Naomi McMorrow
I joined the Agro-ecology and Rural Development (ARD) group within the MFRC at GMIT as a doctoral candidate in late 2018. I studied Agri-Environmental Science in University College of Dublin from 2014-2018 and am currently working on the Hen Harrier Project, focusing on ecosystem services provision. The primary focus of my research is to analyse […]