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Suzi Jarvis graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in Physics and began her research career by organising her own industry sponsored DPhil (Kodak Ltd) in the Department of Materials, Oxford. This was followed by eight years of international work experience at the Joint Research Centre for Atom Technology; a Government Research Lab in Tsukuba, Japan, working in the area of nanotechnology. Towards the end of her time in Japan she was actively involved in the policy changes and restructuring which occurred across the science and technology sector primarily through her connections with the Science and Technology Office of the British Embassy. On moving to Trinity College Dublin in 2002 she gained experience in establishing major new ventures as one of the founding Principal Investigators of the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructure and Nanodevices (CRANN); a joint venture with multi-national partner INTEL. During this time she also established a multi-disciplinary team pursuing a number of research areas at the interface between electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and botany. 
In 2007 she took up the Chair of Biophysics in the Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research at University College Dublin. Recently her serendipitous discovery of patentable protein structures in a broad range of natural adhesives has opened up the potential for the biomimetic production of new biomedical adhesives (patent US 7,851,434). In 2009 she was involved in the Enterprise Ireland Business Partners Programme along with co-inventor Dr Anika Mostaert. Her group also has particular strengths in the development of novel atomic force microscopy techniques for bionanotechnology, and work closely with industrial collaborator, Asylum Research, an Oxford Instuments Company. Suzi was appointed as Founding Director of the Innovation Academy, UCD in 2010 and has been instrumental in driving the Academy’s development to date.

Listed skills include Science, Nanotechnology, Entrepreneurial Endeavour, Institutional Change, and 31 others.