Philip Nolan | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Irish |
Known for | Chair of the NPHET Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group Director General of Science Foundation Ireland President of Maynooth University |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University College Dublin |
Thesis | Reflex responses to upper airway negative pressure (2003) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Physiology |
Director General of Science Foundation Ireland | |
In office 16 January 2022 – present | |
Preceded by | Mark Ferguson |
President of Maynooth University | |
In office August 2011 – October 2021 | |
Preceded by | John G. Hughes |
Succeeded by | Eeva Leinonen |
Philip Nolan is an Irish physiologist, academic and public administrator. He is the director general of Science Foundation Ireland since January 2022, although attempts had been made by the Board of SFI to remove him.[1] He previously served as the chair of NPHET's Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group from March 2020 to February 2022,[2][3] president of Maynooth University from August 2011 to October 2021,[4][5] deputy president of University College Dublin for academic affairs and registrar from 2004 to 2011.[6]