Gianpiero Cavalleri is Professor of Human Genetics, Deputy Director of the SFI FutureNeuro Research Centre and Director of the Human Genetic Variation Research Group at RCSI. Prof. Cavalleri is also Deputy Director (Translational Research) of the RCSI Office of Research and Innovation. Gianpiero was awarded a Ph.D. in human genetics at University College London in 2006. Prior to his arrival at RCSI, he worked at the Institute for Genome Science and Policy at Duke University, North Carolina. He was appointed to faculty at RCSI in 2008. Prof. Cavalleri has published over 160 articles in leading peer reviewed international journals including Nature, Nature Genetics, PNAS and the New England Journal of Medicine. AHis research group works at the interface of computational biology, clinical diagnostics and population genetics.

Denis Shields studied genetics, bioinformatics, and molecular evolution (completing a PhD with Paul Sharp at Trinity College Dublin). He worked in the University of Southampton on genetics with Newton Morton, and in companies on clinical trials and genetics (as Biometrics Manager in ICON, Dublin, and as Managing Director of Surgen Ltd, Dublin). He has been in University College Dublin as Professor of Clinical Bioinformatics since 2005, where he set up the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology PhD programme (over 90 students since commencement in 2007) and is Director of the UCD Centre for Bioinformatics, based in the Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research. His main research interest is to better understand the evolution and interaction of short bioactive peptides, including those embedded within proteins and those released during food digestion. He teaches modules in Bioinformatics and in Personalised Medicine to undergraduates.

Aedín Culhane is a Professor of Biomedical Sciences (Cancer Genomics) in the UL School of Medicine. She is a computational oncologist with expertise in multi-omics data integration, statistical genomics, clinical bioinformatics, and genomics in oncology. She has over 20 years’ experience in cancer genomics, of which over 15 years were in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston, USA. Her recent research focuses on algorithm development and integrative data of single cell molecular data in cancer to identify molecules that regulate and can be targeted during tumor development, progression, drug response, and resistance. She is a member of the Human Cell Atlas (https://www.humancellatlas.org) project. She is a leader in the Bioconductor (www.bioconductor.org) community, a global open source, open development software in R for genomics, and an advocate for open-source science.

Markus Helfert is Professor in Digital Service Innovation at Maynooth University, Innovation Value Institute (Ireland) and the Director of the Business Informatics Group at Maynooth University. He is a Principle Investigator at Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre and at the Adapt Research Centre. His research is centered on Digital Service Innovation, Smart Cities and IoT-based Smart Environments and includes research areas such as Service Innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Services, Building Information Management, FinTech, Data Value, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Adoption, Analytics, Business Process Management. Prof. Helfert is an expert in Data Governance Standards and is involved in European Standardization initiatives. Markus Helfert has authored more than 200+ academic articles, journal and book contributions and has presented his work at international conferences. Helfert has received national and international grants from agencies such as European Union (FP7; H2020), Science Foundation Ireland, and Enterprise Ireland, was project coordinator on EU projects, and is the Project coordinator of the H2020 Projects: PERFORM on Digital Retail.

Denise is the Executive Director for Empower, the data governance research program. She drives the long-term strategic planning of this multi-million Euro research program. Denise is also the CEO and Co-founder of Cadova Health, an AI-based medtech start-up focused on early detection of breast cancer. Cadova Health is a Lero and University of Limerick spin-out co-founded with Prof. Conor Ryan, Director of the Biocomputing and Developmental Systems (BDS) Group @ UL. She has also held senior management roles focused on business development and commercialization in Lero, the world-leading Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and was formerly Technology Gateway Manager in Walton Institute, an ICT research center and prior to that held senior management and engineering roles in the technology and life sciences sectors. Denise has 20+ years of multi-disciplinary experience with a focus on innovation-driven technology and digital transformation initiatives both in industry and in academic research environments, operating at various levels from engineering to senior management.

Laura completed her doctoral research under the supervision of Professor G. Jane Farrar in the School of Genetics and Microbiology at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focused on determining the underlying genetic cause of inherited retinal disease in patients who had not yet received a genetic diagnosis. Following this, Laura spent time working at the cancer genetics service at St. James' Hospital and worked with the genetic counseling team as a genomic associate, where she gained valuable insights into clinical genetics. Laura is currently working as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher on the Irish arm of the European Genomic Data Infrastructure Project in the FutureNeuro research center at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland under the supervision of Professor Gianpiero Cavalleri. Laura has a keen interest in digital health, public and patient involvement in research, and the integration of genomics into healthcare practice.

Dr Mansoor Ahmed did his M. Sc in Information Management from Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria. He was awarded Higher Education Commission (HEC) scholarship for higher studies (PhD) in Austria. In 2009, he completed his PhD degree from TU Wien, Austria.In 2010-2011 he was awarded Senior researcher fellowship scholarship by Indiana University, USA for his Postdoctoral studies. During this period, he worked in Web Science Lab (WSL). In 2017, he worked as Senior researcher in University College Dublin (UCD).He is member of Editorial Review Board of many International Journals. He is also serving as Associate editor of IEEE Access. Besides this, he has organized number of workshops and also serves as Technical Program Committee member in International reputed conferences. He is also reviewer of good quality journals i.e., Elsevier and Springer. His research interest includes Data Provenance, Blockchain, Semantic Web technologies, Knowledge-based systems, Privacy issues in Health care data, Cloud Computing Security, Information Security and Privacy. He has over 12 years of teaching and research experience.

Nuala is the Chair of Bord of the NCBRS Worldwide Foundation and the mother of a child with NCBRS, so has day to day experience of the challenges the syndrome can cause for children with NCBRS and hence the areas of neurological research that can help with this. Nuala has 30 years drug development experience, both in pre-clinical and clinical development of compounds across numerous indications and therapeutic areas globally. She has a BSc in Pharmacology, a Diploma in International Business Management and training in Patient Advocacy and Engagement through IPPOSI in Ireland along with their Educational partners (UCD, Trinity College and the HPRA). Nuala is also experienced in the management of multiple EU funded Public Private Partnerships, involving co-ordinating activities of 40+ global academic, pharma, technology and Patient Organisation groups working together to solve key health related issues. As well as being Chair of the Board of Trustees for the NCBRS Worldwide Foundation, Nuala serves on Steering Committees for multiple projects and Initiatives such as: Genomics Data infrastructure Ireland (GDI), Future Neuro RCSI Governance Committee, Member of the Health Product Regulatory Authority (HPRA) Patient panel, Member of the Pharmacy Taskforce Ireland, Former Board member of Genomics Medicines Ireland among others. Nuala has close working relationship with RCSI through membership of the FutureNeuro Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) panel and involvement in many other activities at RCSI, such as lecturing on PPI to students, work in the NeuroInsight Dragons Den. Nuala was also part of the committee that developed the Framework for Quality Improvement in Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) in health and social care research

Margaret is a patient advocate for individuals with hereditary predisposition to cancer.

Daniel is a science graduate and medical student, fascinated by the sheer volume of data generated through genomic sequencing and potential value of the use of this data in clinical research. I also have unique experience on the consumer side of genomic analyses and interpretation and would love to bridge the gap between consumers/patients and researchers in the field.

Siobhán earned a B.A (Mod) in Natural Science (Genetics) from Trinity College Dublin in 2011 and an MSc in Bioinformatics with Systems Biology from University College Cork in 2012. She then worked as a Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher on the "Identification of IGF biomarkers in cancer," a collaborative project between UCC and Almac Diagnostics, Craigavon. In 2014, Siobhán joined the West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory (NHS) in Birmingham as a Bioinformatician and worked on developing a prenatal diagnostics service for single gene disorders within a clinical setting. In January 2017, Siobhán returned to work in Almac Diagnostics as an NGS Bioinformatician to help establish their Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) service. In September 2018, she returned to academia to complete her PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Galway, under the supervision of Professor Cathal Seoighe, and her research focused on analyzing clonal mutations in cancer. In 2022, she took a 6-month break from her PhD to serve as the acting Training Lead for the SFI-funded Centre for Research Training in Genomics Data Science. Following her PhD in 2023, Siobhán worked as the Research Data Management Coordinator at ELIXIR Ireland before taking up the role of Genomics Research Training Manager at GDI Ireland.