2025 - Speakers

Dr Sheila Donegan

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Dr Sheila Donegan is a lecturer in Chemistry at SETU and co-director of CALMAST. She is a passionate advocate of STEM and holds many national positions in this area. She also co-founded Maths Week with Eoin Gill – the leading festival of its kind in the world – which attracts over 520,000 participants each year across the island of Ireland.

Sheila and her colleague Eoin won the 2006 EU Descartes Prize for Science Communication, the highest EU award in this field. Most recently, in 2021, she was awarded the Network Ireland Business Woman of the Year in the STEM category..