Peter O'Brien
Tyndall Institute, University College Cork
Professor
Peter O’Brien, Ph.D., is head of the Photonics Packaging & Systems Integration Group at the Tyndall Institute, University College Cork. He is also director of the European Photonics Pilot Line (www.pixapp.eu) and the European Photonics Academy at PhotonHub Europe (www.photonhub.eu). His group is involved in multiple EU, SFI, NSF, DARPA, and direct industry projects. O’Brien previously founded and was CEO of a start-up company that manufactures speciality photonic systems for biomedical applications, which he sold in 2009. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology and a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was involved in the development of electronic submillimeter wave devices for remote sensing applications. He received his undergraduate degree and doctorate in physics from Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork respectively.