Colm O’Dwyer

Colm O’Dwyer

Colm O’Dwyer is Professor of Chemical Energy in the School of Chemistry at University College Cork (UCC) and leads a multidisciplinary research group developing 3D printed batteries, energy storage materials, optoelectronic materials science and processes, and photonic structures.

After completing a PhD in Semiconductor Electrochemistry and Physics at the University of Limerick in 2003, Prof. O’Dwyer conducted postdoctoral research on ultracold atom cooling at the Université Paul Sabatier III, Toulouse. He was a Science Foundation Ireland Stokes Lecturer on Nanomaterials at the University Limerick from 2008 to 2012 when he joined the UCC faculty. A Fellow of the Institute of Physics, he received a Bell Labs Prize in 2017. With talented students, postdocs, and collaborators, Prof. O’Dwyer has coauthored ~ 300 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and ECS Transactions articles, covering most of the Society’s topical interest areas.

While a graduate student in 2001, Prof. O’Dwyer attended the 199th ECS Meeting and then joined the Society. Over the next 24 years, he organized or co-organized over 40 ECS symposia on electrochemical and solid state topics. Prof. O’Dwyer served the ECS Electronic and Photonics Division as an Executive Committee Member for more than 12 years, and as Division Chair from 2017 to 2019. He chaired many of the Society’s standing committees and is a member of the Board of Directors. He served as ECS Vice-President (2021-2024) and President (2024-2025).