Group members

Damien Woods Professor, group leader
Constantine Evans Research Fellow
Cai Wood Postdoctoral Fellow
Josh Petrack Postdoctoral Fellow
Ahmed Shalaby PhD student
Dr Kim Reilly Programme Officer/Manager, Research Development Officer
Dr Ashley Allen Senior Technical Officer, Lab manager
Angel Cervera Roldan Maynooth SPUR student summer 2024, and CS Final Year project.
Eoghan Ryan Maynooth SPUR student summer 2025, and Biology Final Year project.
Mahboobeh Enayati Researcher
Neda Parvizifard Researcher

Former group members

Abeer Eshra Asst. Professor, CS dept. Hamilton Institute affiliate. Was a postdoc and senior postdoc at TAPDANCE.
Janet Adio Maynooth SPUR student, summer 2024. Final-year Biology student, and winner of highest mark in the Faculty of Science and Engineering!
Oliver Shiels Visiting student Spring 2025, RA summer 2025
Daniel Drapeau Maynooth SPUR student, summer 2025
Trent Rogers Asst. Professor at University of Arkansas, Computer Science.
Gwendal Le Guennec ENS Lyon. Masters Internship summer 2024
Doan Dai Nyugen ENS, Paris. Masters Internship summer 2024
Maciej Kwasnik Maynooth SPUR student, summer 2024
Tristan Stérin Chief Research Officer (CRO) at prgm.dev and major-groove. Was a PHD student at TAPDANCE at Maynooth (PhD 2023) and before that an intern with us at Inria.
Jessica Connolly Cunningham Summer undergraduate student, Maynooth University, 2023
Antoine Anastassiades Internship student, ENS Paris
Ismael Mullor Ruiz Postdoctoral fellow
Clément Galan Research Assistant / Intern, 2022
Matthew McCartney Maynooth SPUR student, summer 2022
Graham Keane Maynooth SPUR student, summer 2022
John Heaney Maynooth SPUR student, summer 2022
Ulysse Léchine Research Assistant / Intern, 2021
Pierre-Étienne Meunier Senior research fellow (MU) 2018-2020, Starting Researcher (Inria) 2016-2018, visting postdoc (Caltech) 2013
Nicolas Levy Internship summer 2019 (ENS Lyon Masters student)
Coline Petit-Jean Internship summer 2019 (ENS Lyon Masters student)
Eilbhe Bailey Maynooth SPUR student, summer 2019
Dara MacConville Maynooth SPUR student, summer 2019
Benjamin Korady Final-year undergraduate student
Niall Murphy PhD, Maynooth, 2010
Turlough Neary PhD, Maynooth, 2008
Antoine Poirot-Bourdain Inria intenership; Masters student at CRI Paris, 2017
Joy Hui Caltech SURF 2013 & visiting Harvard student 2014
Dhiraj Holden Caltech SURF 2013
Moya Chen Caltech SURF 2012
Doris Xin Senior Thesis 2012, CS, Caltech
Zibo Chen SURF, BIOMOD 2011, visiting from Natl. Univ. Singapore
Shayan Doroudi Caltech SURF BIOMOD 2011
Greg Izatt Caltech SURF BIOMOD 2011
Yae Lim Lee Caltech SURF BIOMOD 2011
Sarah Wittman Caltech SURF BIOMOD 2011
Turlough Neary Final year thesis, CS, Maynooth University

Other collaborators and visitors

Sergiu Ivanov Université d’Évry, Paris-Saclay University. Sabbatical visitor summer 2024.
David Doty Assistant Professor, UC Davis. Sabbatical visitor 2022.
Mathew Patitz Professor, University of Arkansas. Sabatical visitor, July-December 2019
Nicolas Schabanel Directeur de recherches, CNRS, ENS Lyon
Irina Kostitsyna Assistant Professor, Eindhoven Universty of Technology
Damien Regnault Assistant Professor (MCF), Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne
Phillip Drake Visiting undergrad student from Univ Arkansas, USA, summer 2024
Prof Pekka Orponen Sabbatical visitor from Aalto University, Finland