Tyndall Institute

Tyndall National Institute at UCC in Cork, Ireland named for John Tyndall, scientist, is one of Europe's leading research centres, specialising in ICT hardware research, commercialisation of technology and the education of next generation researchers. Tyndall has over 450 researchers, engineers, students and support staff focused on research and the commercialisation of technology through industry collaboration. Tyndall’s research spans a range of technologies from atoms to systems in the areas of photonics, microsystems and micro-nanoelectronics and addresses key challenges in the areas of Communications, Energy, Health and the Environment. Queen Elizabeth II visited the research centre as part of her state visit to Ireland on 20 May 2011.Training ProgrammeTyndall has focused its training programme to provide highly employable graduates, while simultaneously allowing a better understanding of the European research community and priority research and development goals driven by end-user requirements. Several of Tyndall graduates have moved to pursue successful careers (up to Vice President level) in leading manufacturing companies including Intel, Qualcomm, Lam Research, Analog Devices, Seagate.Students in advanced manufacturing will join the more than 130 doctoral students at Tyndall engaged in multi-disciplinary research; this diverse and vibrant student community is recruited from undergraduate backgrounds in engineering, physics, chemistry and the life sciences. In fact one of the greatest flexibilities of the training programme is that it allows for a student in an aligned disciplined to develop ‘conversion’ training that rapidly introduces them to the world of convergent technologies at the interface between disciplines, while exposing them to design and application goals. At Tyndall, over 45 academic and research staff directly engage as primary PhD supervisors.