Peter O'Brien
Director, European Photonics Packaging Pilot Line (PIXAPP) & Head of Photonics Packaging Group, Tyndall Institute
About the Speaker
Prof. Peter O’Brien is Director of the European Photonics Packaging Pilot Line (PIXAPP) and head of the Photonics Packaging Group at the Tyndall Institute, University College Cork, Ireland. He was a post-doctoral scholar at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was involved in the development of submillimetre wave devices for sensing applications. He also founded and was CEO of a start-up company manufacturing speciality photonic systems for bio-imaging applications, which he sold in 2009. He received his degree and PhD in Physics from Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork respectively.
