• 2019 - 2021 - 2023 - 2024 - Speakers

    Nuala Clarke

    Nuala Clarke is an Irish visual artist. She completed a BA in Fine Art Painting in NCAD in 1993 and afterwards moved to New York City to live and work. Currently represented by Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY. In 2007, Clarke received a fellowship to The Ballinglen Arts Foundation,…

  • 2019 - Speakers

    Prof Niall Moyna 

    Niall Moyna is a professor of clinical exercise physiology at DCU. Prof Moyna’s research is focused on exercise in the prevention of treatment of chronic disease and on the role of gene polymorphisms in helping to explain interindividual variability in biological responses to exercise.

  • 2019 - Speakers

    Prof Tomás Ryan

    Tomás hails from Dungarvan Co. Waterford. He originally graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2005 with a BA in genetics. He completed his PhD in molecular neuroscience with Seth Grant at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 2009.

  • 2019 - Speakers

    Dr Oliver Feeney

    Dr Oliver Feeney is a researcher in political theory and bioethics with the Centre of Bioethical Research and Analysis, NUI Galway. His primary research is on the ethical, legal and social (justice) implications (ELSI) of biomedical technologies, esp. CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and the ethics of human enhancement.

  • 2019 - Speakers

    Dr Natalie Kaoukji

    Dr Natalie Kaoukji is a historian of early modern science and medicine. Her research interests are broadly in the transformation of natural knowledge in the early modern period, with particular interests in the poetics of early modern technology and the prolongation of life.

  • 2019 - Speakers

    Prof. Madeleine Lowery

    Madeleine Lowery is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin. Her research is focused on using engineering methods to understand the human nervous system as it relates to movement, in health and disease, and to design therapies and technologies to improve impaired motor function. 

  • 2019 - Programme - Summer School

    Summer School 2019

    The 8th Robert Boyle Summer School will take place from 20 – 23 June 2019 at Waterford City and Lismore and addresses the potentials and perils of SUPERHUMAN. The inspiration for the 2019 summer school was Boyle’s wonderful, prophetic (and now quirky) document from the 1660’s where he lists 24…