• 2024 - Speakers

    Dr Matthew Morgan

    Dr Matthew Morgan is Museum Director of Turner's House in Twickenham and is an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. He has worked in the heritage sector for over 10 years, including at the National Gallery and the Royal Collection.

  • 2024 - Speakers

    Prof Michael John Gorman

    Professor Michael John Gorman is currently founding director of Biotopia a major new museum for life sciences and environment in Munich. He was founding director of the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin and Science Gallery International. Michael John has published widely on the history of science and technology in…

  • 2023 - Speakers

    Professor Peter J. Bowler

    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.

  • 2023 - Winter School

    Robert Boyle Winter School 2023

    The Robert Boyle Winter School took place at the RDS Dublin, 18 February 2023. Since the 17th century, there has been an interrelationship between science and colonialism. Meanwhile, Ireland both suffered under colonialism and participated in, and benefitted from colonialism.

  • 2021 - Speakers

    Prof. Luke O’Neill

    Luke O’Neill is Professor of Biochemistry in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is a world expert on innate immunity and inflammation.

  • 2021 - Speakers

    Dr Michelle DiMeo

    Michelle is the Arnold Thackray Director of the Othmer Library at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. Her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of early modern science and medicine, with particular interests in domestic science, medical remedies, and women practitioners.

  • 2021 - Winter School

    Science and Pandemics

    Dealing with pandemics is nothing new for scientists. Throughout history new contagious diseases have emerged, seemingly out of nowhere. Physicians, researchers, and public officials then scramble towards mitigating the spread and discovering a cure while death tolls and unemployment rise.