Sheila Donegan completed her Ph.D in Surface and Interfacial Chemistry in 1991 conducting her research jointly between Clarkson University, USA and UCD.  Having completed her Ph.D., she worked for two and a half years in the Polymer Coatings Research Unit, Materials Ireland, FORBAIRT, now Enterprise Ireland. This work involved R & D for indigenous companies lacking R & D facilities. She worked on EU projects concerned with reducing the amount of VOC’s in paints.  In addition, she worked for an Irish company on the production of water dispersible metallic paint resulted in a European patent (EP 93029).

Since 1994 she has been a lecturer in Physical Chemistry where she founded the Surface Science and Pharmaceutical Analysis research group in WIT.  Sheila is an active researcher in the area of surface and analytical science, publishing extensively particularly in the area of pharmaceutical analysis.

Sheila is currently a member of the research advisory board of the Materials and Surface Science, University of Limerick, the WIT research council and she is also a member of the steering committee of the Irish Governments Discover Science and Engineering programme.

Last updated: Monday, Apr 20, 2009