Dr Ruth Freeman
Director, Enterprise & International Affairs
Contact Bernie Moran (PA)
Tel: +353 (0) 1 607 3240
Email: ruth.freeman@sfi.ie
Dr Ruth Freeman was appointed as Director of Enterprise and International Affairs at Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) at the beginning of 2010, where her remit includes developing and fostering relationships with foreign agencies and forging strategic alliances in research and development. She also interacts with companies and industry associations directly, as well as being the main SFI contact point with Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland. The Technology and Innovation Development Award at SFI is run under Dr Freeman’s direction.
Prior to her current appointment Dr Freeman was Head of Industry-Research Development at SFI with responsibility for coordinating all SFI award programmes involving industrial collaborations, including the Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET), Strategic Research Clusters (SRC) and Principal Investigator Industry Supplement programmes. Dr Ruth Freeman joined SFI as a Scientific Programme Manager in November 2006.
Dr Freeman has conducted research within several groups in Europe and Africa and has presented her research at many international conferences. She has lectured on a variety of topics to M.Sc. and undergraduate students as well as assisting in the supervision of numerous undergraduate and postgraduate research projects. Her PhD research, on population genetics in hybrid zones, was funded by a Studentship in Biodiversity from the Wellcome Trust and was carried out at TCD and ILRI, Nairobi. During this time she also obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics.
Dr Freeman was a founding member of the Trinity Research Staff Association; the first Irish association representing contract researchers.
