Siobhán Moane, PhD
About Siobhán Moane
Dr. Siobhán Moane is LIT’s Head of Research & Technology Transfer and is responsible for the strategic development of research across LIT’s four schools in addition to facilitating technology transfer activities and dissemination of research outcomes across LIT. She supports start-up companies based in LIT’s Enterprise Acceleration Centre in their research endeavours and works closely with Ireland’s agencies involved in supporting SMEs and High Potential Start-up Companies. She chairs LIT’s Academic Council Sub-committee on Research and Development. A proposer PI of Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre, Siobhán sits on its Steering Committee and Commercialisation Committee. She holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry awarded by Dublin City University, Ireland and is currently supervising 5 postgraduates pursuing Ph.D qualification. She joined LIT in 2000 and was a founder of LIT’s BSc in Pharmaceutical and Forensic Analysis. She lectures on LIT’s B.Sc. courses in Bioanalysis and Biotechnology and Chemical Instrumentation. Her applied research is in method development for the extraction and detection of drugs for forensic applications and has involved the commercial application of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers to the detection of drugs of abuse. She has worked as a research chemist in the Toxicology Section of Ireland’s State Laboratory automating methods for the detection of drugs of abuse in Coronor’s samples. While working as a Biochemist for Ireland’s Medical Bureau of Road Safety she set up Ireland’s screening programme for the detection of Driving under the Influence of Drugs. She has researched in the University of Oviedo, Spain and the University of Kansas, U.S.A.