Gabriel Crean
Non-Executive Director and Co-Founder

Professor Gabriel Crean, PhD was CEO of NMRC (now part of the Tyndall National Institute) from 1997-2004 where he nurtured and encouraged the spin-off of several leading photonics companies in Ireland. Professor Crean has an international research reputation and is a past president of the European Materials Research Society. He has been elected a fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland and of the Institute of Physics, and has been chairman of several international conferences.

Professor Crean received Honours degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Dublin Institute of Technology and Trinity College Dublin and obtained a Masters degree in Opto-electronics from the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. He was subsequently awarded a Ph.D. at the Center National des Telecommunications (CNET) microelectronics research center in Grenoble, France for work on microelectronic materials science and metrology.