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Awards/Achievements

  • Vice-President Research at the University of Limerick, 2008-2011

  • Research Excellence Award at University of Limerick, 2004

  • Raised more than €57m in competitive funding (over €9m received directly as PI)

  • Best Conference Paper Awards:
    - 21st International Conference in Information Systems, 2000,
    - First International Conference on Open Source Software, 2005

  • PhD thesis nominated for Best Doctoral Thesis competitions:
    - 18th International Conference on Information Systems, US
    - Distinguished Dissertation in Computer Science, UK

  • Founding Director of Lero Graduate School in Software Engineering (with grant of €2.2 million)

  • Founding Chair of IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software

  • Vice-Chair of IFIP WG8.2 Information Systems and Organizations

  • Founding President of Irish Chapter of Association for Information Systems

  • Fellow of Irish Computer Society and Fellow of the British Computer Society

  • Association of Information Systems (AIS) Council representative for Europe, Middle-East and Africa , 2006-2008.

  • Invited seminars/keynotes in 14 countries (Austria, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, India, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK and US)

  • Conference Chair responsibility for eight international conferences (six of which were hosted in Ireland for the first time)