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Pictured at an awards ceremony last week was Dr. Sarah Guerin from Tralee who is one of five early-career scientists selected by the Irish Research Council to represent Ireland at the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this July.
TRALEE native, Dr. Sarah Guerin is one of five early-career scientists that have been selected by the Irish Research Council to represent Ireland at the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this July.
Dr. Guerin is based at the Bernal Institute at University of Limerick and her work focuses on developing molecular modelling tools to predict electronic structures and certain responses of molecular crystals.
The meeting is an annual week-long conference in Lindau, Germany, attended by up to 40 Nobel Prize-winners, as well as hundreds of undergraduates, PhD students and post-doctoral researchers from all over the world.
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Its aim is to build links and promote the exchange of ideas amongst scientists of different generations, cultures and disciplines. This year, the focus of the Meeting will be on cosmology, particle physics and quantum technology.
The five scientists selected to represent Ireland comprise researchers based at University College Cork, the University of Limerick, and Trinity College Dublin.
Their nominations were assessed by the Council and subsequently selected by the Lindau Nobel Laureate Foundation following a rigorous and independent evaluation process.
The 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will take place from 30th June to 5th July 2019. It will be attended by 580 young scientists and 40 Nobel Laureates from 88 different countries
