Dr McAfee is a senior lecturer in Systems and Control Engineering at the Atlantic Technological University, Ireland. Her research interests are in sensing, modelling, and control of complex systems with applications in medical devices and biological systems, manufacturing, autonomous systems, and environmental sensing. She is Co-Director of the Institute's Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Intelligent Systems for Health and Environment (MISHE) and is a Principal Investigator in the Precision Engineering, Materials and Manufacturing Strategic Research Centre (PEM SRC). She is also a Funded Investigator in I-Form, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Manufacturing.