Róisín Owens

Róisín M. Owens is Professor of Bioelectronics at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College. She was recently appointed as a academic leadership fellow working with the Pro Vice Chancellor for Research on a research income review at the University of Cambridge. She received her BA in Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Southampton University. She carried out two postdocs at Cornell University, on host-pathogen interactions. From 2009-2017 she was group leader in the dept. of bioelectronics at Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne. She has received several awards including the European Research Council starting, consolidator and advanced grants, and grants from numerous awarding bodies in the UK, France and the US. She is a 2019 laureate of the Suffrage Science award and a recipient of the 2024 Biochemical Society AstraZeneca award recognising work in UK & Ireland laboratories that has led to the development of a new reagent or method in the Biomedical field. She was appointed a member of the Irish National Science Advice Forum in 2026. She is Scientific Editor for Materials Horizons (RSC), and her work has been cited more than 14000 times. With her group, she studies the integration of electronic devices with biological systems for continuous monitoring, from cell membranes to tissues and organs, with a particular interest in studying the microbiome-gut-brain axis.