UCD President (Chair)
UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 716 3000 Fax: +353 1 716 3030
Professor Orla Feely
Professor Orla Feely is the 10th president of UCD. She achieved her undergraduate degree in electronic engineering at UCD in the mid-1980s before going to attend the University of California, Berkeley in California, where she completed her masters and PhD.
While there she won awards for outstanding and innovative research, which is the area of non-linear circuits and systems. She has since been awarded research grants and prizes from a number of national, international and industry sources.
Prof Feely returned to Ireland to work as a lecturer in UCD’s engineering department in the 1990s and became the first Irish woman elected as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy as well as a fellow of Engineers Ireland and has played a key role in fostering interest among schoolchildren in science as director of the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.
Prof Feely is also member of the Board of the Higher Education Authority.