
The PEM Centre Team
The Team
The PEM Centre Team have a strong history of conducting applied research. We have completed over one hundred industry projects, securing over €12 million in competitive research funding (over €1 million of which was contributed directly from industry) and filed four patent applications (two granted and two pending). Equally our academic track record is exemplary with two hundred peer reviewed publications and supervision of Masters and PhD students.
In addition to the staff listed below, we work with the highly experienced lecturing and technical staff across IT Sligo to provide solutions to Industry problems
Primary Contacts
PEM Technology Gateway Staff

Finola Howe
PEM Technology Gateway Manager
Area of Expertise: Business Development,
Quality, Manufacturing & Operational Excellence
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Clíodhna Carroll
PEM Technology Gateway
Business Development Lead
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Mark McLoughlin
PEM Technology Gateway Research & Development Engineer
Area of Expertise: Precision Engineering & Design
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PEM Strategic Research Centre and Academic Staff

Dr. David Tormey
PEM Academic Director
Area of Expertise: Design and Manufacturing Engineering

Dr. Richard Sherlock
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Laser Spectroscopy

Dr. Gerard McGranaghan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Heat Transfer, Manufacturing Engineering
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Dr. Xavier Velay
PEM Principal investigator/HoD of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Engineering
Area of Expertise: Design for Industry, Engineering Management, Industry 4.0, and the Circular Economy

Dr. Konrad Mulrennan
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Machine learning & Data analytics
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Aoife Hegarty
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise: Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Observation Technologies
Dr. Marion McAfee
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Process Monitoring, Modelling and Control
Prof. Suresh Pillai
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Nano Material and Technologies
Dr. Ioannis Manolakis
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Polymers & Composites/Coatings, Bio-inspired Materials
Dr. Waqas Saleem
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Solid mechanics, precision machining and simulation, mechanical design optimisation
Dr. Vignesh Kumavarel
PEM Researcher
Area of Expertise:
Nanomaterials for energy and environment
Dr. Muhammad Mahmood Ali
PEM Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Area of Expertise: Photonic Engineering, Electronic Engineering & Laser Welding and Manufacturing

Dr. John Donovan
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Statistical Process Modelling
Prof. Leo Creedon
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Mathematical Modelling

Brian Coll
PEM Principal Investigator
Area of Expertise: Lean Six Sigma, Quality & Operational Excellence
Dr. Saritha Unnikrishnan
PEM Researcher/Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Computing & Electronics
Area of Expertise: Computational Modelling

Dr. Sarah Hehir
PEM Researcher/Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Life Sciences
Area of Expertise: Organic Synthesis/ Polymer Chemistry
Dr. Douglas Marques
PEM Researcher / Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Mechatronic Engineering
Area of Expertise: Polymers Processing, Biomaterials Science, Medical Devices & Tissue Engineering
PhD Students
Foram Dave
PhD Student / PEM
Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Laser Transmission Welding & Polymer Characterisation
Priyanka Ganguly
PhD Student / PEM Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Nanomaterial synthesis and characterisations,
Photocatalysis
Jamie Grant
PhD Student / PEM Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Forensic Investigation and Analysis
Mohamad Awad
PhD Student / PEM
Student Researcher.
Area of Expertise: Process Engineering, Production Scheduling and Optimisation, Manufacturing Engineering
Usaid Azhar
PhD Student / PEM Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Materials Synthesis & Characterisation (Bio-Ceramics, Bio-Inspired Polymers, Composites)
Kris O'Dowd
PhD Student / PEM Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Forensic investigation and analysis with advanced oxidation process's (AOP's)

Albert Weinert
PhD Student / PEM Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Sensorisation of 3D printed injection moulding tooling
Mohammadreza Kadivar
PhD Student / PEM Student Researcher
Area of Expertise: Additive manufacture enhanced heat transfer surfaces