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University College Dublin is one of Europe's leading research-intensive universities, where a comprehensive suite of strong disciplines forms the foundation of high quality interdisciplinary research, scholarship and innovation.

UCD is the national leader in research funding, attracting quality investment that has helped the university to establish a reputation as a worldclass destination for leading researchers. UCD is ranked within the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide. It is the largest University in Ireland with greater than 1,500 academic staff across a range of disciplines, more than 1,580 PhD students and over 3,400 Masters students, producing 28% of Irelands PhD graduates each year.

UCD runs overseas programmes in partnership with leading international universities and education providers in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, and Sri Lanka, with over 5,500 students on overseas campuses. UCD is ranked 176th in the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Ranking; ranking in the top 200 universities worldwide, and ranked 66th in Europe. UCD has won €513 million in research contracts over the last 5 years. UCD’s Impact rating in publications has increased to 63% above the World average from 2011-2015, with the number of publications more than doubling in the same period.

UCD plays a leading role in pioneering knowledge transfer (Nova 2004-2015), with over €5 million generated from commercialisation of research invention disclosures, 30 new UCD spin-outs incorporated, 550 invention disclosures, 110 Licence Agreements, 300 Patent applications. UCD has a major contractual track record in successive EU Framework Programmes: - UCD secured 219 EU FP7 contracts. UCD currently has already secured over 56 contracts in Horizon 2020 - UCD is managing 17 ERC awards, including 3 ERC Proof of Concept awards.

Contact Person

Dr. Joseph Gallagher
University College Dublin
STOP HF Unit
The Annexe
St Michaels Hospital
Co Dublin
Ireland

Website: http://www.ucd.ie/