The DPTC comprises of an Industry Support Unit, researchers from 9 Research Performing Organisations in Ireland and 8 Dairy Industry Partners.
Use the filter below to view our team members by institution or by department.
Yousef Joubran

ALUMNI
Sonia Yadav

ALUMNI
Vivi Tsermoula

ALUMNI
Jim Lee
Kerry Group
DPTC Board Member
Aude de Casanove

ALUMNI
Dr Murugan Rajendiran

ALUMNI
Thomas France

ALUMNI
Miryam Amigo-Benavent

ALUMNI
Majid Soolaki

ALUMNI
Dr Abigail Pattenden

Funding Officer
Operations Management Team
abigail.pattenden@dptc.ie
Ken O’Connell

Alumni
Dr Mustafa Sajjia

ALUMNI
Nivedita Datta

ALUMNI
Federico Cerrone

ALUMNI
UCD
federico.cerrone@ucd.ie
Esmeralda Santillan Urquiza

Pillar 2 Project 13
PDRA Teagasc
esmeralda.urquiza@teagasc.ie
Orla Power

ALUMNI
Archana Bista

ALUMNI
Dr Feng Xue

Pillar 2 PDRA
University of Limerick
Feng.Xue@ul.ie
Ritika Puri

ALUMNI
Lara Paulo
ALUMNI
Dr Anthonia O’Donovan

ALUMNI
Norah O’Shea

Project 4.1
norah.oshea@teagasc.ie
Tenzin Tashi

Pillar 5, Projects 1 and 4
University College Dublin
tenzin.tashi@ucdconnect.ie
Jose Antonio Escamez Picon
Ryan Hazlett

ALUMNI
Grainne Keena

ALUMNI
Dr S.M. Ashekuzzaman

ALUMNI
Eoin Murphy

Principal Investigator
Pillar 2 Projects 1 & 6
Teagasc
eoin.murphy@teagasc.ie
Dr Vijai Gupta

ALUMNI
Dr Noel McCarthy
Pillar 2 Project Lead
Teagasc
noel.mccarthy@teagasc.ie
Yuanyuan Pu

ALUMNI
Puneet Parmar

ALUMNI
Daniela Butan

ALUMNI
Dr John Tobin
Pillar 2 Project Lead
Teagasc
john.tobin@teagasc.ie
Kevin Murphy

ALUMNI
Dr Jean-Chrisophe Jacquier
Pillar 3 Project Lead
University College Dublin
jean.jacquier@ucd.ie
Ina Bremenkamp

ALUMNI
Aoife Buggy

ALUMNI
Dr Brian Seddon

ALUMNI
Dr Essam Hebishy

ALUMNI
Niamh Burke

ALUMNI
Maeve Flood
maeve.flood@ucdconnect.ie
Dr Kamil Drapala

ALMUNI
Dr Carlos Esquerre

Pillar 4 PDRA
University College Dublin
carlos.esquerre@ucd.ie
Dr Baljit Singh

Pillar 4 Project 3 Project Co-Lead
Institute of Technology Tallaght
baljit.singh@ittdublin.ie
Hannah Rossiter

ALUMNI
Fuweng Zhang

ALUMNI
Raquel Alves
ALUMNI
Diana Oliveira

ALUMNI
Eoin Finnegan

ALUMNI
Jayakumar Janardhanan
ALUMNI
Aisling Crotty

ALUMNI
Michael Murphy

Pillar 4 Project 2 Researcher
University College Cork
michaelmurphy@umail.ucc.ie
Aoife McGuirk

ALUMNI
Dr Shivani Pathania

ALUMNI
Dr Maria Dermiki

ALUMNI
Dr Anne Marie Henihan

Interim CEO
DPTC
annemarie.henihan@dptc.ie
Donal O’Brien

Pillar 1 Project 1 Researcher
University of Limerick
donal.obrien@ul.ie
Mark Timlin

Pillar 3 Researcher
mark.timlin@teagasc.ie
Teagasc
Pat Shiels

Lakeland Dairies
DPTC Board Member
Andrew Bartle

Pillar 5
andrew.bartle@nuigalway.ie
NUIG
Dr Muhammad Gulzar

ALUMNI
Bhavya Panikuttitra Kuttappa

ALUMNI
Aaron Lim

ALUMNI
Barbara Minardi

ALUMNI
Prof Terry Smith

Professor of Biomedical Engineering Science
NUI Galway
DPTC Board Member
Dr Maneesha Mohan

ALUMNI
Conor Ryan

Arrabawn Co-op
DPTC Board Member
Ankush Shirsath

ALUMNI
Sarah Flynn

ALUMNI
Dr Shahzad Imar

ALUMNI
Dr Eve Mulcahy

ALUMNI
Xiao Liu

ALUMNI
Jim O’Neill

Glanbia
DPTC Board Member
Dr Anna V. Piterina

DPTC Programme Co-ordinator
Operations Management Team
Anna.Piterina@dptc.ie
Mary O’Connor

ALUMNI
Mary Ferry

DPTC Programme Co-ordinator
Operations Management Team
mary.ferry@dptc.ie
Dr Mark Southern

Pillar 1 Lead
University of Limerick
mark.southern@ul.ie
Dr Seamus O’Mahony

Piller 2 Co-Lead
University College Cork
sa.omahony@ucc.ie
Professor Gavin Walker

Pillar 2 Co-Lead
University of Limerick
gavin.walker@ul.ie
Dr Mark Fenelon

Pillar 3 Lead
Teagasc
mark.fenelon@teagasc.ie
Professor Colm O’Donnell

Pillar 4 Lead
University College Dublin
colm.odonnell@ucd.ie
Professor Vincent O’Flaherty

Pillar 5 Lead
NUI Galway
vincent.oflaherty@nuigalway.ie
Dr Alan Ryan

Pillar 1 Project Leader /Pillar 5 RPO Team
University of Limerick
alan.ryan@ul.ie
Dr John Geraghty

Pillar 1 Project Lead
Dublin City University
john.geraghty@dcu.ie
Dr Vincent Hargadan

Pillar 1 Project Lead
University College Dublin
vincent.hargaden@ucd.ie
Dr Cathal Heavey

Pillar 1 Project Lead
University College Limerick
cathal.heavey@ul.ie
Professor Brian Fynes

Pillar 1 Project Lead
University College Dublin
brian.fynes@ucd.ie
Laurence Shalloo

Pillar 1 Project Lead
Teagasc
laurence.shalloo@teagasc.ie
Professor Alan Kelly

Pillar 2 & 3 RPO Team
University College Cork
a.kelly@ucc.ie
Dr Maria de Souza Gallagher

Pillar 2 & 4 RPO Team
University College Cork
m.desousagallagher@ucc.ie
Prof. Paul McSweeney
Professor Martin Wilkinson

Pillar 2 & 4 RPO Team
University of Limerick
martin.wilkinson@ul.ie
Dr Andre Brodkorb

Pillar 2 & 3 PRO Team
Teagasc
andre.brodkorb@teagasc.ie
Dr Donal O’Callaghan

Pillar 2 & 4 RPO Team
Teagasc
donal.ocallaghan@teagasc.ie
Dr Mark Auty

Pillar 2 & 3 PRO Team
Teagasc
mark.auty@teagasc.ie
Professor Tim Guinee

Pillar 2 & 3 PRO Team
Teagasc
tim.guinee@teagasc.ie
Dr Maeve Henchion

Pillar 2 PRO Team
Teagasc
maeve.henchion@teagasc.ie
Michael O’Sullivan

Pillar 2 & 3 RPO Team
University College Dublin
michael.osullivan@ucd.ie
Professor Phil Kelly

Pillar 3 RPO Team
Teagasc
phil.kelly@teagasc.ie
Song Miao

Pillar 3 RPO Team
Teagasc
Joe Kerry

Pillar 3 RPO Team
University College Cork
Dr Joe Bogue

Pillar 3 RPO Team
University College Cork
j.bogue@ucc.ie
Professor Nora O’Brien

Pillar 3 RPO Team
University College Cork
nob@ucc.ie
Professor Dolores O’Riordan

Pillar 3 Project Lead
DPTC Board Member
University College Dublin
dolores.oriordan@ucd.ie
Denis Dowling

Pillar 3 RPO Team
University College Cork
Professor Francis Butler

Pillar 4 Project Lead
University College Dublin
f.butler@ucd.ie
Aoife Gowan

Pillar 4 RPO Team
University College Dublin
Brendan Murphy

Pillar 4 RPO Team
University College Dublin
Brian Glennon

Pillar 4 RPO Team
University College Dublin
Seamus Fanning

Pillar 4 RPO Team
University College Dublin
Dr Kieran Jordan

Pillar 4 RPO Team
Teagasc
kieran.jordan@teagasc.ie
Kevin Hayes

Pillar 4 RPO Team
University of Limerick
PJ Cullen

Pillar 4 RPO Team
DIT
pjcullen@dit.ie
Dr JJ Leahy

Dr Nick Holden

Pillar 5 RPO Team
University College Dublin
nick.holden@ucd.ie
Dr Kevin O’Connor

Pillar 5 RPO Team
University College Dublin
kevin.oconnor@ucd.ie
Dr Ramesh Babu>

Pillar 5 RPO Team
Trinity College Dublin
ramesh.babu@tcd.ie
Dr Karl Richards

Pillar 5 RPO Team
Teagasc
karl.richards@teagasc.ie
Dr Owen Fenton

Pillar 5 RPO Team
Teagasc
owen.fenton@teagasc.ie
Dr Maria Touhy

Pillar 5 RPO Team
NUI Galway
maria.touhy@nuigalway.ie
Cristiani Eccher

ALUMNI
Robert Carty

ALUMNI
Paul Hogan

ALUMNI
Elaine O’Connor

elaine.oconnor@ul.ie
Krzysztof A. Zacharski

Patrick Prendergast

ALUMNI
Steven Normoyle

ALUMNI
John Conway
ALUMNI
Qingsong Zou

ALUMNI
Dr Kamrul Haque

ALUMNI
Dr Akeem Olaleye

ALUMNI
Christiane Schmidmeier

ALUMNI
Dr Mahsa Naghshineh

ALUMNI
Dr Annalisa Segat

ALUMNI
Catherine Wall

ALUMNI
Dr Kevany Soodam

Pillar 2 PDRA
ALUMNI
Dr Jonathan O’Sullivan

ALUMNI
HeniBudi Wijayanti

Alumni
David Collins

ALUMNI
Ruairi Murnane

ALUMNI
Dr Thanya Kleekayai

ALUMNI
Ciara Errity

ALUMNI
Graham O’Neill

Alumni
Alison Hollingsworth

ALUMNI
Dr Maria Mateo

Alumni
Dr Toufic El Arnaout

ALUMNI
Raquel Cama Moncunill

ALUMNI
Dr Carl Sullivan

ALUMNI
Dr Karen (Triona) Hunt

Pillar 4 PDRA
Teagasc
triona.hunt@teagasc.ie
Dr Lynda Gunn

ALUMNI
Dr Elaine O’Meara

Pillar 4 PDRA
University of Limerick
elaine.omeara@ul.ie
Dr Mingjai Yan

Pillar 5 PDRA
University College Dublin
mingjia.yan@ucd.ie
Dr Marzena Kwapinska

ALUMNI
Alan O’Reilly

ALUMNI
Greg Lohan

ALUMNI
Dr Dermot Hughes

ALUMNI
Juan Castilla Archilla
ALUMNI
Dr Ciara Keating

ALUMNI
Dr Sean Brady

Chairman – DPTC
Dr Frank O’Mara

Director of Research – Teagasc
DPTC Board Member
Jim Corbett

University College Cork
DPTC Board Member
Dr Puneet Saidha

Vice President of Research (Acting)
University of Limerick
DPTC Board Member