Fionn Murtagh directs Ireland's Science Foundation funding programs in Information and Communications Technologies and Energy. He holds a Ph.D. from the Université Paris 6 and a habilitation from Université de Strasbourg. Murtagh held professorial chairs at the University of Ulster, Queen's University Belfast, and now at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
