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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) () is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork (city), Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen's Universit ...
. He was previously vice president and chief research officer at the
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.


Biography

O'Shea was born in
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,
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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
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s. He is a Fellow of the
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, the
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and the
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. 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,
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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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