Our organisers

The Cork Science Festival organising committee is a group of volunteers from scientific and educational centres in Cork.

Mervyn Horgan

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Ria O'Sullivan

Ria is the Education & Public Engagement Manager in the INFANT Centre in Cork, a research centre focused on making pregnancy safer and improving health outcomes for mothers and their babies worldwide.

Aoife Deane

Aoife is the Communications & Public Engagement Manager in the MaREI Centre in Cork, a research centre focused on solving the main scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges across the marine and renewable energy sectors

Catherine Buckley

Catherine is the Communications & Outreach Manager for the APC Microbiome Institute in Cork, a research institute focused on gastrointestinal health, investigating the means by which intestinal microbiota influence health and disease

Alida Zauers

Founder & CEO

Alida is the Public Engagement & Outreach officer for CONNECT and Tyndall National Institute in Cork. CONNECT focuses on telecommunications research, and TNI specializes in both electronics and photonics.

Sinead Ryan

Tech Lead

Sinead is the Education & Public Engagement officer at Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC) at Tyndall National Institute, a research centre that develops new light-enabled technologies.

Maria Lagos O'Sullivan

Office Manager

Maria is the General Manager of Mayfield Community Training Centre, part of the Cork Educational Training Board. The CTC provides accredited training and educational programmes, and support services to early school leavers and the young unemployed people of the Mayfield area.