Michelle is the Arnold Thackray Director of the Othmer Library at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. Her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of early modern science and medicine, with particular interests in domestic science, medical remedies, and women practitioners.
2021 Robert Boyle Winter School: Science and Pandemics, Online.
Dealing with pandemics is nothing new for scientists. Throughout history new contagious diseases have emerged, seemingly out of nowhere. Physicians, researchers, and public officials then scramble towards mitigating the spread and discovering a cure while death tolls and unemployment rise.
The 2nd Robert Boyle Winter School took place in partnership with the RDS Dublin on Saturday 25th January (Robert Boyle's 393rd Birthday!) and explored “Climate Change the Irish Story” with presentations about the past, present and future engagement with Climate Change.
Niall Moyna is a professor of clinical exercise physiology at DCU. Prof Moyna’s research is focused on exercise in the prevention of treatment of chronic disease and on the role of gene polymorphisms in helping to explain interindividual variability in biological responses to exercise.
Annraoi de Paor was born in Waterford in 1940. He became an internationally renowned expert in control theory and also pursued interests in biomedical engineering and renewable energy.
Dr Oliver Feeney is a researcher in political theory and bioethics with the Centre of Bioethical Research and Analysis, NUI Galway. His primary research is on the ethical, legal and social (justice) implications (ELSI) of biomedical technologies, esp. CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and the ethics of human enhancement.
Dr Natalie Kaoukji is a historian of early modern science and medicine. Her research interests are broadly in the transformation of natural knowledge in the early modern period, with particular interests in the poetics of early modern technology and the prolongation of life.
Madeleine Lowery is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin. Her research is focused on using engineering methods to understand the human nervous system as it relates to movement, in health and disease, and to design therapies and technologies to improve impaired motor function.
The 8th Robert Boyle Summer School will take place from 20 – 23 June 2019 at Waterford City and Lismore and addresses the potentials and perils of SUPERHUMAN. The inspiration for the 2019 summer school was Boyle’s wonderful, prophetic (and now quirky) document from the 1660’s where he lists 24…