The IUA are pleased to announce two recent key appointments.
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| Westley Forsythe | Dagmar Meyer |
Dagmar Meyer commenced her role as Marie Curie National Contact Point on April 2nd. The role will primarily be to act as National Contact Point for the FP7 Marie Curie and Capacities Programme. The Irish Marie Curie Office, located in IUA, is the National Contact Point for the EU Framework 7 People Programme. It provides dedicated support, advice and in-depth assistance to researchers applying for funding under these Programmes. It will also support the development of Irish universities as attractive locations for international students and researchers.
Westley Forsythe will take up his position as 4th Level Network Co-ordinator from May 28th. The role will be to lead the development of the 4th level network to enhance the international standing of PhD research training and education in Irish universities.
Biographies
Dagmar's scientific background is in mathematics and physics. She graduated from the University of Heidelberg with a German "Diplom" and also holds a "Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics" from the University of Cambridge. The research for her doctoral thesis was done mainly at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. After obtaining her PhD from the University of Heidelberg she moved to France for a post-doc at the Université Paris 13, funded by a Marie Curie individual fellowship. In 2001 she returned to her native Germany to take up a position as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Göttingen.
Since her time in Paris Dagmar has been actively involved in many activities related to researcher mobility in general and the Marie Curie Actions in particular. She was a board member of the Marie Curie Fellowship Association for five years and its president from 2003 – 2005, and a member of the European Commission's External Advisory Group on Human Resources and Mobility from 2004 – 2006. She also has experience as an expert evaluator for the European Commission and various other organisations.
Westley is a double graduate of University College Cork, receiving a BA in history and sociology and then completing his PhD in Irish history in 2005.
The University of Sheffield appointed Westley as Academic Support Officer where he was responsible for the management and coordination of the university’s Research Councils skills training funds. Research Councils award these funds to universities for the development and delivery of generic and transferable employability skills training. Research Councils disseminate the funds based on universities’ numbers of Research Council funded PhD students and post-docs.
In this role Westley had particular responsibility for undertaking an examination of post-docs’ career/professional development skills training needs. The outcome of this was the production of a report with recommendations accepted by the university and now being delivered through Sheffield’s innovative ‘Research Leaders’ Programme.’ Further information on this is available from the following link. http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/researchoffice/cpd