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Prof. David Taylor is Professor of Materials Engineering and a Principal Investigator
in the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College, Dublin. He has a PhD from Cambridge University in Materials Science and a
CEng from the Institute of Engineers of Ireland. He was the founding President of the Section of Bioengineering of the Royal Academy
of Medicine in Ireland (1994-1996). In 2003 he was awarded the ScD degree from Cambridge University. In 2006 he gave the Haughton Lecture
of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. In 2009 he was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy.
Clive Lee is Professor of Anatomy in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)
and the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) and Visiting Professor of Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering in Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
In 1980 he was awarded a Medical Research Council – Wellcome Trust Scholarship to undertake an intercalated degree in physiology in TCD.
After qualifying in medicine and Internship, he was a Demonstrator and Locum Lecturer in Anatomy in TCD, 1985-87, obtaining his MSc.
He joined the Dublin Surgical Training Scheme and became a Fellow of both the Dublin and Edinburgh Royal Colleges of Surgeons in 1989.
In the same year, he was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy in RCSI. In 1995-96, after obtaining his PhD in bone biomechanics, he was a Fulbright
Scholar at the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and was awarded his MD in 1997. He was appointed Chairman
of Department in 2000 and Professor of Anatomy in RCSI in 2002, and in the RHA in 2007. He has been Visiting Professor of Biomechanics
and Tissue Engineering in Trinity College since 2003. 
Fergal O'Brien is a graduate in mechanical engineering from Trinity College, Dublin.
He subsequently carried out research for his PhD in the area of bone biomechanics between RCSI and TCD. Following his PhD, he was a Fulbright
Scholar and carried out research in orthopaedic tissue engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in collaboration with in
Harvard Medical School. In May, 2003 he left the US to take up a position as Lecturer in Anatomy in RCSI. In October 2004 he was awarded
a SFI President of Ireland Young Researcher Award to set up a laboratory for bone tissue engineering in RCSI. He is a Principal Investigator
in the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering and is a Lecturer in Biomechanical Engineering in TCD. His current research focuses on two strands
(i) bone mechanics and osteoporosis and (ii) tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In the former area, his group looks at the
links between microdamage accumulation on bone remodelling and fracture and at the contribution of bone quality to osteoporosis. In the
latter area, his group investigates novel scaffolds for tissue engineering and the influence of biophysical stimuli on cellular differentiation
and matrix synthesis in vitro. He has a specific interest in the application of stem cell biology to scaffolds for regenerative medicine.
In 2005, he was elected to the status of Chartered Engineer by the Institution of Engineers of Ireland (Engineers Ireland) and was subsequently
awarded the honour of Chartered Engineer of the Year. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in October 2006 and Associate Professor in Octber
2007.
Dr. Ciaran Simms is a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Trinity College Dublin,
and a Principal Investigator in the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering. He completed his undergraduate degree and his PhD at the department
of Mechanical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin in 1995 and 1999 respectively. He then worked as a research engineer in Denis Wood
Associates, an accident investigation company, where he performed research on the relationship between car size and injury risk and using
pedestrian flow distances to take a vehicle impact speed. He then went to work for the Dutch research Corporation TNO in both the Netherlands
and in the United States, where he worked on the development of airbags, and on using the madymo human body model in a variety of research
applications. He then returned Trinity College Dublin as a lecturer, where he has been since 2001. 
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