Dr. Jimmy Murphy is a senior lecturer at the School of Engineering at UCC and lead technical engineer of the Lir National Ocean Test Facility (Lir NOTF) in the SFI MaREI Centre. He has over 25 years of experience in the area of engineering in the marine environment, particularly tank testing, hydrodynamic modeling, and field studies in both offshore and coastal environments. He is responsible for the Lir NOTF, which houses Ireland's only infrastructure for small- to medium-scale laboratory testing of ocean and maritime systems. It is a world-class facility consisting of four test tanks, an electrical laboratory, and mechanical and instrumentation workshops. He has been a leading figure in research in the field of offshore renewable energy in Europe, having coordinated such projects as FP7 LEANWIND and the H2020 MaRINET2, MARINERG-i, and TAOIDE. He received an EI Champion of Research award in 2017 for successful EU projects, and Lir NOTF, under his management, won the award for Excellence in Marine Infrastructures at the Marine Industry Awards in 2017. He is an author of more than 110 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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