Jamie Goggins

Prof Jamie Goggins is Director of Construct Innovate, which is Ireland's national research centre for construction technology and innovation (www.constructinnovate.ie) that has over 60 companies as Associate Members and brings together more than 20 multidisciplinary research groups across 9 partner institutions, with over 300 researchers currently research active on topics related to construction & built environment. He is also a Principal Investigator and member of the management team of the SFI MaREI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine (www.marei.ie), which includes for 13 Universities, approximately 220 researchers and 50 industry partners. He was appointed as the 7th Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Galway in 2020, a position that was first held by Prof W. Bindon Blood in 1850. Within the University of Galway, he has also served as Director of Research & Innovation in the School of Engineering (2020-24) and has also led the development and delivery of the first two Sustainability Strategies for the university in his role as Chair of the Community University Sustainability Partnership (CUSP) board (2017-2022). As Director of the Sustainable and Resilient Structures Research group (www.nuigalway.ie/structures) that he established in 2008, he has been lead principal investigator on over 80 research projects, most in collaboration with industry. He has author or co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.