Martin O'Halloran

Martin O’Halloran (Member, IEEE) is currently a Professor of Medical Electronics and a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Investigator with the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of his research, he holds a joint affiliation with the College of Engineering and Informatics and the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and leads the Translational Medical Device Laboratory, Lambe Institute, Galway. He is currently the nonexecutive Director of the BioInnovate Program and the Co-Lead of the Health Innovation Hub Ireland, National University of Ireland. He was a co-proposer of a European COST Action (entitled “MiMED”) and is now leading a network of more than 180 medical device researchers from 24 countries, focused on the clinical evaluation and commercialization of novel medical devices in Europe. Over the last six years, he has personally secured €10.6 million in direct research funding and has authored or coauthored more than 180 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Prof. O’Halloran was a recipient of more than 30 national and international research awards and was recently awarded the SFI’s Early-Stage Researcher of the Year, the Engineers Ireland Chartered Engineer of the Year, and the European Research Council’s Starting Investigator Grant. He is an invited chair and an invited speaker at several main electromagnetics and translational medicine conferences or seminars.