UCD School of Biosystems Engineering
College of Engineering and Architecture
University College Dublin

Contact is not available Expertise: UCD Biosystems Engineering: - Systems Modeling: (i) Life Cycle Assessment (dairy, beef and energy systems); (ii) dairy system simulation; (iii) nutrient management decision support; (iv) pathogen transfer; (v) microarray development - Smart Systems Unit: (i) RFID technology; (ii) database technology; (iii) wafer quality monitoring and assessment (optical, PCR and microarray techniques); (iv) environmental control; (v) supply chain management - Quantitative Risk Assessment - food chain integrity UCD Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory: - value added: (i) applied mathematics; (ii) computational science; (iii) informatics - research clusters: (i) simulation science; (ii) security; (iii) optimization; (iv) network analysis Other UCD Schools that provide collaborative support: - Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering - Agriculture and Food Science - Veterinary Medicine - Biology and Environmental Science - Computer Science and Informatics UCD is the only university in Ireland with the necessary range of disciplines (agriculture, engineering, computer sci. & envi. sci.) to fully support research in agriculture and ICT. Facility: - Systems modeling lab - Optical sensing labs - Smart systems lab - High performance computing including shared complex systems lab - UCD Earth Institute and UCD Institute of Food and Health - Research farm - Research support infrastructure (management, financial, reporting, implementing) - Information services (e.g. library) - Collaborative networks Priority: - Agricultural Systems Technology (Head of Subject at UCD) - System Modeling (focus on livestock, esp. dairy) - Life Cycle Assessment (focus on livestock, esp dairy and beef) - Decision Support (focus on agrometeorology and nutrient management)