Jeremiah Murphy
Jerry serves as Director of the MaREI centre, which was initiated in 2013 and will graduate its 300th PhD in 2025. He set up the circular economy, energy, and environmental systems research Group in UCC in 2007 and has published c. 210 peer review journal papers. Scholar GPS ranks his work in the top 15 academics worldwide researching “Biofuels.”
He was awarded the Engineers Ireland Excellence Award (2015); Excellence in Marine Research (2017); adjunct professor of the University of Southern Queensland (2018); International Advisor to DBFZ (The German Bioenergy Research centre) (2019); and the Mary B Upton Visiting Professorship in Cornel University for fall 2024.
He led the International Energy Agency Bioenergy Task “Energy from Biogas” from 2016 – 2021 and grew this Task to 19 member countries with the addition of Brasil, Canada, China, Estonia, India, and Italy and in this role authored/edited 18 IEA Bioenergy reports, 23 case stories and chaired 12 IEA Bioenergy Symposia.
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