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 ...
.
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 ...
.
Biography
O'Shea was born in
Cork,
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
, 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
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. His board memberships include the
Universitas 21
Universitas 21 (U21) is an international network of research-intensive universities. Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1997 with 11 members, it has grown to include twenty-eight member universities in nineteen countries and territories.
The uni ...
Research Leaders Steering Group, the
National Institute of Aerospace,
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is a consortium of American universities headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with offices in Arlington, Virginia, Arvada, Colorado, Belcamp, Maryland, Cincinnati, Ohio and staff at other locations acro ...
, 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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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