Professor Patrick Prendergast

Dr. Patrick Prendergast, BA, BAI, PhD, ScD, C.Eng, FIEI, FTCD, MRIA is Provost of Trinity College Dublin. Following his election on 2nd April 2011, he commenced his 10-year term as the 44th Provost of the College on 1st August 2011. Dr Prendergast held the Chair of Bio-engineering from 2007 to 2011. He is a Principal Investigator of the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering. Prior to working in TCD he held post-doctoral positions in Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna and the University of Nijmegen. On a sabbatical year (2001-2002) he was Visiting Professor, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland and Senior Research Fellow, Koiter Institute, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. He is a past-president of the Section of Bioengineering of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (2000-2002), and a Past-President of the European Society of Biomechanics (2002-2004). He won the Parsons Medal in Engineering Science from the Royal Irish Academy in 2003. His research interests are in biomechanics and implant design, and in tissue engineering and mechanobiology. He was Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Dublin from 2004-2007. In 2007 he was President of the European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering Societies. Also in 2007 he obtained a Chair in Bio-Engineering. In March 2008 he was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy. In July 2009 he was invited to deliver the Wartenweiler Memorial Lecture at the International Society of Biomechanics in Capetown, South Africa. He was Director of the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering from 2002 to 2008. He was Vice Provost/Chief Academic Officer from July 2008 to October 2010. He obtained a ScD from the University of Dublin in 2009.

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His research interests are in biomechanics and implant design, and in tissue engineering and mechanobiology.