Joe is Lecturer in Bioinorganic Chemistry at UCD. His teaching responsibilities are listed in real-time here. Joe’s interest are in teaching the chemistry of metals and their interfaces with medicine, scientific communication, and applying Universal Design for Learning and career readiness, including facilitating training colleagues in UDL. His contributions in UCD include:
School of Chemistry:
- CHEM40050/40830 – Metals in Biology, stage 4 undergraduate/Taught MSc (2023-present)
- CHEM10080 – Inorganic Chemistry for Medical Students, stage 1 (Module Coordinator, 2023-present)
- CHEM20070 – Inorganic and Physical Chemistry for Engineers, stage 2 (2023-present)
- CHEM40030 – Research Project – our group hosts final year undergraduates for a substantial research project
- CHEM40160/40280/40520 – Chemistry Seminar Programme Graduate Modules (Module Coordinator, 2024-present)
- CHEM41560/41570 – Project Management and Mentoring Skills I & II (Module Coordinator, 2025-present)
- CHEM30250 – Organometallic chemistry (2026-present)
- UCD Chemistry China Summer School – Deputy Coordinator of summer school which hosts ca. 20 students from ZJNU China for the summer, and instructor on one module
College of Science (Transferrable Skills):
- SCI30080 – School of Chemistry Coordinator for Professional Placements (2024-present)
- SCI10010 – Principles of Scientific Enquiry, stage 1 small-group tutorials
Joe was an Honorary Research Lecturer in the School of Chemistry, NUI Galway. His teaching responsibilities include:
- CH311 – Third year organic chemistry, covering heterocylic and heteroaromatic compounds
- CH202 – Second year organic chemistry, covering the chemistry of alcohols [PDF], aldehydes and ketones [PDF] (2021-present, online delivery [example of interactive recap lecture, and sample problem set 1 and 3)
- CH101 – First year introduction to organic chemistry
- Supervising 1 PhD and co-supervising 1 PhD student
- Supervising and examining Final Year BSc Research projects (2019-present)
- Oral examinations of Bio- and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Final Year dissertations (2020-present)
- Chairing weekly organic chemistry problem solving group with 5 postgraduate students from the School of Chemistry
He has previously had the following teaching roles:
- University of Bern
- Delivered lectures and tutorials as part of final year (AC-IV) and 2nd year (AC-III) inorganic chemistry course (2018)
- Supervised 1 MSc project (12 month), 1 Erasmus BSc research project (9 month) and 12 short BSc projects (2016-2019)
- Trinity College Dublin
- Senior Laboratory Demonstrator in charge of 1st year Health Sciences practical module. Managed 5 demonstrators, instructing organic, inorganic and physical chemistry experiments (2013-14)
- Laboratory Demonstrator to 1st and 2nd year undergraduate students (2010-13)
- Designed and supervised 2 Final Year BSc research projects
In addition to teaching, Joe has acted as Chair or Examiner in several PhD vivas.
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