About Materials Ireland

The Materials Ireland network was reconvened on the 23rd and 24th of April 2008 in the Hodson Bay Hotel in Athlone. Within Ireland, the community of materials researchers had been participating in a residual virtual network, from the former Materials Ireland PAT network, however the community had no formal framework. The Athlone event sought to address this by bringing together some of the prominent materials researchers and industrialists on the island. Most of the leading research groups on the Island had a representative keynote speaker and an important outcome was the formation of a new Materials Ireland Society and a committee, chaired by Prof. Roger Whatmore (Tyndall CEO) with Prof. Edmond Magner (Director MSSI) as Vice-Chair. Details of the committee can be found on the Contact page of this site. The committee met twice in 2008 and five times in 2009 to date.

Our Terms of Reference

To establish and manage conferences and seminars based in Ireland and focussed in the area of the group’s objectives
To establish links and work with other bodies with similar objectives, both within and outside Ireland and to develop joint conferences, educational initiatives etc.
To work with all Irish government agencies to promote and achieve the group’s objectives to access to and leveraging funding sources.
To develop educational and outreach initiatives designed to promote the study of materials’ science and engineering at second, third and fourth levels.
Establish a web presence to promote the objectives of the group.
To encourage and promote the development and resourcing of education modules in materials science and engineering at all levels.
To promote interaction between business and the education sector in the field of advanced materials and encourage technology transfer.
To facilitate and encourage the creation and use of continuing professional development and the attainment of professional status in the field.