Tia Keyes is a full professor (chair) of physical chemistry based in the School of Chemical Sciences at DCU. Following her primary degree at TUD, and a year in industry, Tia completed her PhD in Physical Inorganic Chemistry DCU in 1995, then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow University of Manchester, UK, before returning to Ireland to work as a postdoctoral fellow on a EU project with periods spent in Belfast and Sweden. She took up a lectureship in physical chemistry at TUD in 1998 and moved to DCU in 2002 as lecturer. She was promoted to Full professor in 2014. Tia’s research interests lie in the field of photophysics and spectroscopy and in supramolecular and interfacial chemistry. She leads a multidisciplinary research team whose focus is on the applications of these fields to biological and biophysical problems. Current projects focus on development of metallocomplex luminophores for cell imaging/environmental mapping, and phototherapeutics; microfluidic and plasmonic biomembrane systems for understanding drug membrane permeation and disease and in Raman Spectroscopy for disease diagnostics. Tia is author/co-author of over 230 peer-reviewed publications in international journals (H index 44) in these domains and has two international patents granted. She has supervised/co-supervised 38 PhDs to completion to date. Tia is a Fellow the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland. She is recipient of the Presidents prize for research and The Boyle Higgins Gold Medal and Lecture Award (2024).
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