Niamh Nic Daéid

Niamh Nic Daéid
Nationality Irish
Alma mater Dublin Institute of Technology
Trinity College, Dublin
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Occupation forensic scientist
Title Professor of Forensic Science and Director of Research at the University of Dundee

Niamh Nic Daéid FRSE is an Irish forensic scientist, and the Professor of Forensic Science and Director of Research at the University of Dundee.

She earned a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from the Dublin Institute of Technology and Trinity College, Dublin, followed by a PhD in bio inorganic chemistry from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.[1]

In 2014, Nic Daéid was appointed as Professor of Forensic Science at the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) at the University of Dundee, having been an academic at the University of Strathclyde for 20 years, where she rose to be the first woman to earn a personal chair in the Department of Chemistry.[2]

Honours and awards

In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Dundee, University of. "Professor Niamh Nic Daeid  : About". dundee.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Niamh Nic Daéid appointed Professor of Forensic Science at CAHID - Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification". cahid.dundee.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Professor Niamh Nic Daeid FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
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