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Delighted to share that Tyndall’s research on detecting toxic 'forever chemicals' is featured in today’s The Irish Times.

📰: https://www.irishtimes.com/science/2025/12/04/irish-led-research-team-develops-bacteria-based-sensors-to-detect-forever-chemicals/

🔬 Applications are now open for Professorial and Lecturer appointments in the fields of Quantum Technologies and Photonics.

📝 Learn more & apply: https://bit.ly/4rxmdXj

#Quantum #Photonics

Tyndall has announced the recipients of the Wrixon Bursaries for 2025, honouring seven postgraduate researchers. Five students received Research Excellence Bursaries while two were awarded Travel Bursaries to support international collaboration.

https://bit.ly/48rCFiV

#ResearchExcellence

📺 On Monday evening, Tyndall featured on RTÉ One’s 10 Things to Know About…, with Dr Brendan O'Flynn showcasing our AI‑led fight against invasive species, in collaboration with Teagasc.

Watch back: https://bit.ly/3KEVB5X

#10ThingsToKnowAbout

Applications are open for our Summer Fellowship Programme 2026! For the first time ever, the programme is welcoming not only undergraduate STEM students enrolled in Ireland but also offering 5 opportunities for EU students to apply for a NanoIC fellowship.

https://bit.ly/3VgPg2N

#SummerFellowship

Tyndall National Institute proudly congratulates Dr Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar on being elected a Fellow Member of Optica, one of the highest honours in the global optics and photonics community.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4inKElT

#ResearchExcellence

@uccresearch.bsky.social

Tyndall is a key partner in NanoIC, Europe’s €2.5B Chips JU Pilot Line coordinated by imec, advancing semiconductor innovation through collaborative R&D with CEA-Leti, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, @vtt.fi, and CSSNT.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3XHmvgg

#NanoIC #ChipsJU

Today we welcomed H.E. Dennis King, Canadian Ambassador to Ireland, and Adeline Grenier, Senior Trade Commissioner, to Tyndall.

We look forward to building on these shared goals and strengthening Ireland–Canada partnerships in research and innovation.

#InternationalCollaboration

Earlier this week, the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science at UCC, hosted the 2025 STEM Awards.

🏆Huge congratulations to Tyndall’s Dr Alida Russo, awarded Postgraduate Research Publication of the Year for Tyndall.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4o7iLzC

#ResearchExcellence

🏆 Congratulations to Tyndall's Amin Kargar, winner of the 2025 AI Ireland Award for Best Application of AI in a Student Project!

This award builds on Amin’s role in the HALY ID project with Tyndall & Teagasc.

🔗 Learn more about his project and watch the RTÉ feature here: https://bit.ly/3JVoKcU

QuanTour wins the Institute of Physics Lise Meitner Medal and Prize 2025! 🏅

QuanTour brought a specially built quantum light source to 12 leading labs across Europe and Tyndall proudly hosted the Irish stop.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3K0WWne

📸 QuanTour at Tyndall

#QuanTour

🪲 Great to see RTÉ News spotlight Tyndall researcher Amin Kargar and the HALY ID project with Teagasc, harnessing AI and drones to tackle invasive species.

🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3JVoKcU

#Impact #ResearchExcellence

Yesterday, Tyndall proudly celebrated its Annual Recognition Awards (TARAs).

👏 Congratulations to all nominees and winners!

Learn more: https://www.tyndall.ie/news/a-celebration-of-achievements-at-tyndall-2025/

#PeopleAndCutlture

Tyndall and UCC's Professor Brian Corbett has been awarded €584,513. He will lead a groundbreaking research initiative titled Hilight, funded under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4nVTOai

Tyndall’s Prof Peter O'Brien O’Brien recently visited Japan, engaging with top research and industry leaders to advance photonics packaging and showcase Ireland’s leadership in the field.

https://bit.ly/4oBN5Do

Big congratulations to Rupa Ranjani Palanisamy, TRANSLATE PhD researcher @tyndallinstitute.bsky.social, winner of Best Postgraduate for Public Engagement & Outreach at the 2025 Tyndall Annual Recognition Awards! 🎉

Well deserved 👏

#TRANSLATE #ScienceCommunication #WomenInSTEM

🧪 Science Week 2025 marks 30 years of celebrating curiosity and innovation across Ireland, and Tyndall National Institute is proudly contributing with a lineup of engaging events.

🔗 Learn more: https://www.tyndall.ie/news/tyndall-celebrates-30-years-of-science-week/

#ScienceWeek2025

Thinking about commercialising your research and applying for the Commercialisation Fund?

Join Tyndall’s online briefing session on Friday, November 14th at 11:00 AM to discover how the Explorer Programme supports deep-tech research.

🎟️ Register: https://bit.ly/43fd6Qz

🔗 https://bit.ly/4hKZJxe

Congratulations to Tyndall's Berkay Doğan for receiving the Best Student Paper Award at the 20th Royal Irish Academy (RIA)/International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Colloquium on Radio Science and Communications, held at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. 🏆

#ResearchExcellence

Tyndall has been named a key research partner in two groundbreaking projects under Call 7 of the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF), securing part of a €36.9M investment.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4oI10Yc

#ResearchExcellence #Impact

We have a new doctor in-house! 👏

Join us in congratulating Dr Dario Angelone, who successfully defended his thesis titled "Novel Tools for In Vivo Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Using Miniaturised SPAD Arrays".

#ResearchExcellence

Join us on Sunday, November 16th for Light Laboratory, a Science Week event that merges STEM and theatre in an immersive exploration of light, hosted at The Granary Theatre and Tyndall.

🎟️ Learn more and book your spot: https://www.tyndall.ie/event/light-laboratory/

@UCC

#ScienceWeek2025

Congratulations to Dr Shafi K Khadem from IERC at Tyndall as co-editor of a newly published volume with Elsevier.

A notable achievement and a meaningful contribution to the future of clean energy! ♻️

🔗 https://bit.ly/43w7lOg

#Sustainability

🎉Tyndall congratulates Prof Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar on being named on the Photonics 100 2026 list by Electro Optics.

🔗https://www.tyndall.ie/news/tyndalls-prof-sanathana-konugolu-venkata-sekar-recognised-as-a-global-photonics-leader/

#ResearchExcellence

Tyndall extends its congratulations to the winners of the STS Elionix Scientific Image Competition of Q3 2025!

Read more: https://bit.ly/3Wr4O3Z

#ScientificImages #Research #Innovation

Following the launch of Silicon Island at Tyndall in May, yesterday’s endorsement of the Declaration of the European Semiconductor Coalition marks another milestone in Ireland’s semiconductor journey, reinforcing our commitment to advancing semiconductor research.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4nV7W3Q
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📟 We're heading to #SEMICONWest in Phoenix, Arizona, from October 7th-9th!

Tyndall will be exhibiting alongside IDA Ireland.

Visit us at Booth #7305 and learn more about our work.

🔗 More info: https://www.tyndall.ie/event/semicon-west-2025/

#SEMICONWest

We have a new doctor in-house! 👏

Join us in congratulating Dr Peter Milner, who successfully defended his thesis titled "Design, Fabrication and Characterisation of Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes for Biomedical Applications".

#ResearchExcellence

💡 In 2024, Tyndall completed the relocation and commissioning of its new Training Fabrication Facility, an advanced space designed to give PhD students and postdocs hands-on experience in semiconductor device fabrication.

🔗 https://www.tyndall.ie/news/tyndalls-advanced-training-fab-facility/

Tyndall is coordinating FERNS, a project recruiting 15 PhD researchers to work across Europe on circular design, low-impact materials, and eco-manufacturing.

🔗 https://www.tyndall.ie/news/join-the-ferns-network-15-phd-opportunities-in-sustainable-electronics-across-europe/

#SustainableElectronics