![]() ![]() I want to grow our impact in Ireland and in the wider world through our work in areas such as sustainability, health and secure societies.” “I want to lead a UCD that makes a clear positive difference to the lives of our students through the educational experience we deliver. ![]() She said her own studies in UCD, starting at the age of 16, “transformed her life, and I witness the university’s continuing transformative impact every day”. Speaking following he appointment, she said: “I am greatly honoured to be UCD’s next president and to lead the university into the next phase of its remarkable development.” ![]() Prof Feely is also member of the Board of the Higher Education Authority. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy as well as a fellow of Engineers Ireland and has played a key role in fostering interest among schoolchildren in science as director of the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. Prof Feely returned to Ireland to work as a lecturer in UCD’s engineering department in the 1990s and became the first Irish woman elected as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She has since been awarded research grants and prizes from a number of national, international and industry sources. While there she won awards for outstanding and innovative research, which is the area of non-linear circuits and systems. Prof Feely, whose father – former Dublin Corporation city manager Frank Feely – died this week aged 91, achieved her undergraduate degree in electronic engineering at UCD in the mid-1980s before going to attend the University of California, Berkeley in California, where she completed her masters and PhD. ![]()
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