Patrick G. O’Shea (born c. 1957) is an Irish-American scientist and academic. From February 2017 to September 2020, he was the fifteenth president of

University College Cork University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one of ...

. He was previously vice president and chief research officer at the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

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O'Shea was born in

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, and attended secondary school at . He has a B.Sc. degree from University College Cork, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, all in physics. At Maryland, O'Shea was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an affiliate professor in the Department of Physics, and was previously chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics. O'Shea's area of expertise is in electromagnetics, electron-accelerators and

free-electron laser A free-electron laser (FEL) is a (fourth generation) light source producing extremely brilliant and short pulses of radiation. An FEL functions and behaves in many ways like a laser, but instead of using stimulated emission from atomic or molecula ...

s. He is a Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

, the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

and the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

. He is also a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. His board memberships include the

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Research Leaders Steering Group, the

National Institute of Aerospace The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) is a non-profit research and graduate education institute headquartered in Hampton, Virginia, near NASA's Langley Research Center. NIA was formed in 2002 by a consortium of research universities. NIA perfo ...

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, Maryland Life Sciences Advisory Board, the Maryland Cybersecurity Council and the Maryland Innovation Initiative. On 14 June 2016, O'Shea was appointed the fifteenth president of University College Cork, effective from 1 February 2017. On 15 September 2020, O'Shea's retirement, announced in July 2020 began. O'Shea and his wife, Miriam, were married in 1987. They have a son, Ronan.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:OShea, Patrick G. Living people 1950s births People from Cork (city) People educated at Coláiste Chríost Rí Alumni of University College Cork Presidents of University College Cork American scientists University of Maryland, College Park alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society

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