Professor Eithne Mary Mc Cabe

Before her tenure as Professor and Fellow in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin, Eithne was formerly Fellow and member of the Governing Body of Magdalen College, Oxford and Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff and later Consultant, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, New Jersey, USA. Her research background is in optical engineering including light sources and high-resolution optical imaging. Eithne is Board Member of the Irish Research Council, member of the Institute of Directors in Ireland, Executive member of Women in Technology and Science (WITS), member of Helsinki group and Institute of Physics Juno committee evaluating and advising on best practice in relation to gender and Physics. Eithne has served Trinity and the wider national and international community on numerous committees including Finance, Personnel and Appointments, INTEGER and Equality. She led prestigious successful international gender equality awards, Athena SWAN and Institute of Physics Juno and led Trinity Women in Physics and Juno initiatives initiating national Women in Physics meetings and networking. She has served on numerous international scientific conference organising committees in addition to many national and international service to the community committees including the BA Festival of Science and the national committee for the UNESCO International Year of Light. Her Doctorate work was carried out at the University of Oxford with full industrial sponsorship she secured entirely independently. She was elected a Senior Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford. During this period she was awarded a Royal Television Society Scholarship and an Amelia Earhart Medal and award. She has worked with AT&T, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hitachi, Bosch, and ESB during her career. Her undergraduate work was carried out at UCD where she earned a First Class Honours Degree in Electronic Engineering and earned first place in a Hewlett-Packard national award for her final year research project.

  Annealing   Confocal microscopy   Confocal photoluminescence imaging   Defect imaging   Degradation   Direct-view microscopy   Laser diode   Metrology, physical instrumentation   Microsphere imaging   Multi-aperture imaging   Optical materials   Optical sectioning   Optics   Programmable array microscopy   Semiconductor optoelectronics   Source coherence   Spatial light modulators   Switchable fibre-coupling   Three-dimensional imaging   Variable-focus microlenses   Women in Physics

Professor McCabe's research interests are in the area of high resolution imaging. She brings an engineering perspective to this subject with a career spanning Engineering and Physics Departments and also industry in AT&T (Lucent) Bell Laboratories. This field of microscopy has revolutionized the way biologists, physicists and engineers use light to image a range of samples from biological cells to semiconductor devices. The three-dimensional, high-resolution, non-destructive features are captivating new microscope users around the globe and driving the development of radically new types of confocal microscopes. Professor McCabe's group focuses on the theoretical as well as the experimental aspects of confocal imaging where she designs new microscopes and develops new imaging techniques. She holds patents on this work. She is particularly interested in multi-aperture imaging using novel approaches to increase imaging speed by imaging in parallel. Her work has focused on new imaging techniques which may ultimately drive down the cost of high resolution imaging systems.