Prof. Brian Ó Gallachóir
MaREI Director
Principal Investigator
UCC Energy Transition, Climate Action Energy Policy & Modelling

OVERVIEW

Brian Ó Gallachóir is Director of MaREI and Professor of Energy Engineering at UCC. He leads MaREI’s research on building and using energy systems models that have underpinned Irish and EU energy and climate mitigation policies and energy company strategies. He is also MaREI’s Education and Public Engagement Champion and received the Science Foundation Ireland Best International Engagement Award 2020. Brian is elected Chair of International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme on energy systems modelling (IEA-ETSAP) and an elected Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering. Brian has published extensively (over 110 journal papers and h-index of 42), has a B.Sc. from TCD and a PhD from UCC.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information can be found on Dr. Ó Gallachóir’s  UCC Research Profile