University College Cork
President, Dr. Michael Murphy
UCC was established in 1845 as one of three
Queen’s Colleges at Cork, Galway and Belfast. The
site chosen for the college, on the banks of the River
Lee, is particularly appropriate given its connection
with the patron saint of Cork, St. Finbarr. The
University’s motto is ‘Where Finbarr Taught, Let
Munster Learn.’
Please could you tell us about the
Tyndall National Institute at UCC and
some of the projects ongoing there?
Tyndall National Institute is a semi-autonomous
Institute within UCC. This is an innovative
structure within the Irish University system
allowing greater flexibility and responsiveness to
industry in the critical ICT sector.
Nanotechnology
Tyndall has world leading expertise and results
in nanotechnology. Its nanoelectronics expertise
is centred-around the development of materials,
processes and techniques that will be used to
fabricate tomorrow’s electronic devices for
healthcare, energy, communications and the
environment. It has recently built a major new
cleanroom for flexible semiconductor device
fabrication, clean space for device packaging and
test facilities to industrial standards and a new set of
nanomaterials capabilities. Tyndall represents a key
nanotechnology resource, for both its world-class
facilities and the experts who use them.
World renowned expert Prof. Jean-Pierre Colinge
and a team of scientists at Tyndall, UCC have
designed and fabricated the world’s first junctionless