Nigel Kent

Nigel Kent is an Assistant Professor of Mechatronic Engineering and deputy head of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in DCU. As LSI member his research interests lie in the areas of the development of next generation sensors and companion instrumentation for environmental contamination and pathogen detection. Nigel has worked in sensor development for over 20 years as a researcher with both the National Centre for Sensor Research and the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute. Through a joint collaboration with DCU and the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland he was awarded his doctorate in the area of biomedical diagnostics for cardiovascular disease. He then moved to the Dublin Institute of Technology (now TU Dublin) and became a member of the biomedical and assistive technologies research group in the Institute. In 2015/2016 he was seconded from the Dublin Institute of Technology to return to DCU as Senior Research Fellow in the areas of environmental sensing and additive manufacturing. In 2018 he moved to the Institute of Technology Carlow (now SETU) where he became director of engineering research for the Institute. In 2021 Nigel returned to DCU and was appointed deputy Head of School in February 2024.