Prof. Dr. Hugh J. Byrne is the Lead of the TU Dublin Physical to Life Sciences Research Hub. He received his Bachelor of Arts (moderatorship) degree in Experimental Physics from the University of Dublin (Trinity College) in 1985 and his PhD in Experimental Physics, also from the University of Dublin (Trinity College), in 1989, with a research thesis entitled "On the Origins and Nature of the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic One-Dimensional Polymers". He held a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Physics Department, Trinity College Dublin, from October 1989 to April 1991. He was a Research Scientist at the Max-Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, from April 1991 to July 1995, funded in part by a Marie-Curie Fellowship. He was then a visiting Research Scientist at the National Institute of Materials and Chemistry Research, Tsukuba, Japan, from October 1995 to January 1996, before being appointed to the staff of Dublin Institute of Technology in January 1996, as a Lecturer in the School of Physics. He was seconded as Manager and Head of the FOCAS Research Institute at DIT in 2000 and awarded an Honorary Professorship of DIT (internationally reviewed) in December 2008. He was appointed the Lead of the TU Dublin (formerly DIT) Physical to Life Sciences Research Hub in May 2023. His interests include the physics of molecular materials, nanomaterials, spectroscopy, biospectroscopy, and nano–bio interactions.