I want to grow our impact in Ireland and in the wider world through our work in areas such as sustainability, health and secure societies.” “I want to lead a UCD that makes a clear positive difference to the lives of our students through the educational experience we deliver.

She said her own studies in UCD, starting at the age of 16, “transformed her life, and I witness the university’s continuing transformative impact every day”. Speaking following he appointment, she said: “I am greatly honoured to be UCD’s next president and to lead the university into the next phase of its remarkable development.” Prof Feely is also member of the Board of the Higher Education Authority. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy as well as a fellow of Engineers Ireland and has played a key role in fostering interest among schoolchildren in science as director of the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. Prof Feely returned to Ireland to work as a lecturer in UCD’s engineering department in the 1990s and became the first Irish woman elected as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She has since been awarded research grants and prizes from a number of national, international and industry sources. While there she won awards for outstanding and innovative research, which is the area of non-linear circuits and systems. Prof Feely, whose father – former Dublin Corporation city manager Frank Feely – died this week aged 91, achieved her undergraduate degree in electronic engineering at UCD in the mid-1980s before going to attend the University of California, Berkeley in California, where she completed her masters and PhD.

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