Henry Curran#
| Membership Number: | 5892 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://c3.nuigalway.ie/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5124-8562 |
Present and Previous Positions
- October 2006 - present Director Combustion Chemistry Centre (NUI Galway)
- July 2019 - present Established Professor (Energy Chemistry)(NUI Galway)
- May 2013 - 2019 Personal Professor (Combustion Chemistry) (NUI Galway)
- October 2005 - May 2013 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Physical Chemistry)(NUI Galway)
- October 1999 - September 2005 Lecturer (Physical Chemistry) (Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology)
- September 1994 - September 1999 Research Scientist-Combustion Modelling (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA)
Fields of Scholarship
- Chemical engineering
- Combustion chemistry
- Physical chemistry
- Mechanical engineering
Honours and Awards
- Top 1% of cited researchers worldwide (Clarivate Analytics) every year since first published in 2014
- Plenary Lecture 37th International Symposium on Combustion, Dublin, Ireland, August 1, 2018
- Inaugural Fellow of the Combustion Institute 2018.
- Boyle-Higgins Gold Medal and Lecture Award, Institute of Chemistry of Ireland, April 27, 2017
- Member of the Royal Irish Academy 16 March 2015
- Inaugural NUI Galway President’s Award for Research Excellence (June 2014)
- DSc (by research) from the National University of Ireland, October 2011
- Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry of Ireland, Combustion Institute
- Member, Royal Irish Academy, Institution of Engineers Ireland (MIEI), Society of Automotive Engineers (member #: 6114112969), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (member #: 000100081555)
