University College Dublin, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Belfield, Ireland

Biography:

Madeleine Lowery is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin and the Head of Subject for Biomedical Engineering at UCD. Her research focuses on the application of engineering methods to understand the human nervous system as it relates to movement, in health and disease, and to design therapies and technologies to improve impaired motor function. She leads an interdisciplinary research team at UCD in the area of Neuromuscular Systems and Neural Engineering. Her research interests include electromyography, bioelectromagnetics, myoelectric control of artificial limbs, electrical stimulation, deep brain stimulation and neural control of movement. Professor Lowery received the BE and PhD degrees from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. Between 2000 and 2005, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow then a Research Assistant Professor at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Illinois. She is the current President of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK) and was the Congress Chair for the 22nd ISEK Congress held in Dublin in 2018. Recognition for her work includes the 2018 Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland Graves Medal and the Delsys International Prize for Innovation in Electromyography 2010. Professor Lowery is a Principal Investigator in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and Funded Investigator in the CURAM Centre for Research in Medical Devices. She was awarded a Consolidator grant by the European Research Council (ERC) in 2015, an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in 2019, and is a partner in the DOMINO-HD study funded under the EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research. Professor Lowery is actively involved in undergraduate and graduate teaching and curriculum development, and is Programme Director for the BE and ME Programmes in Biomedical Engineering at UCD. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Physiology, IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology and the Journal of Neural Engineering.