Jerry Murphy

Jerry served as Director of the Research Ireland MaREI centre for energy, climate and marine from 2015 to 2026. In that time, the centre graduated 220 PhD researchers and engaged in research co-design with 110 industry partners. He set up the Circular Economy, Energy, and Environmental Systems research Group in UCC in 2007; he has supervised to graduation c. 30 PhD researchers in this theme and has published c. 230 peer review journal papers. Scholar GPS ranks his work in the top 12 academics worldwide researching “Biofuels.”

He was awarded the Engineers Ireland Excellence Award (2015); Excellence in Marine Research (2017); adjunct professor of the University of Southern Queensland (2018); International Advisor to DBFZ (The German Bioenergy Research centre) (2019); the Mary B Upton Visiting Professorship in Cornel University (2024, 2025); and a visiting Professor at The International Energy Agency (2024).

He led the International Energy Agency (IEA) technology collaboration programme (TCP) in Bioenergy Task “Energy from Biogas” from 2016 – 2021 and grew this Task to 19 member countries with the addition of Brasil, Canada, China, Estonia, India, and Italy and in this role authored/edited 18 IEA Bioenergy reports, 23 case stories and chaired 12 IEA Bioenergy Symposia.

Jerry presently currently serves as Professor Chair of Civil Engineering in University College Cork, Ireland.