Pamela Walsh is a senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast. Prior to that, she was a lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Queen’s. She has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering (UU), MSc in Manufacture System Engineering (QUB) and PhD on Biomaterials (QUB). In 2022, she was awarded a Royal Academy Engineering / Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship to work on Marine Bioadhesives for Bone Repair. She has also previously held an international outgoing Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship between Northwestern, USA in Chicago and Queen’s University Belfast on marine inspired hydrogels for bone repair. Pamela has 15+ years’ experience working on seaweeds, microalgae and other marine critters. Her research group, MMAG (Marine Materials Application Group) focuses on marine biotechnology. Currently her research focuses on marine inspired, derived materials and extractions/isolation of marine bioactives and materials for industrial applications for both the medical sector and agri-food sectors. She is currently leading QUB’s part of a cross-board funded project on marine based animal feeds: SeaFEED | Queen’s University Marine Laboratory (qub.ac.uk) and is part of the UK steering committee on ‘The Future Value of Seaweeds in the UK’. She has several years’ experience of leading EDI initiatives during her time in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at QUB, and is a former SWAN Champion Athena Swan | Queen’s Gender Initiative | Queen’s University Belfast (qub.ac.uk).
She is also #MadeByDyslexia – expect big thinking & small typos!