Dr. David Kinahan

David Kinahan is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

David completed a BEng in Aeronautical Engineering (2003) and a PhD (2008) at University of Limerick (UL). His PhD focused on high-throughput droplet microfluidics for DNA analysis. In late 2007 David joined Stokes Bio Ltd, a spin-out from UL, as a Senior Engineer, and was later promoted to Engineering Manager leading a team of 10 engineers. In January 2012 David joined the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute in DCU and since then has applied microfluidics to a wide range of application areas including human health (HIV diagnostics, CTC detection, CVD diagnostics, liver disease, early detection of bacterial meningitis) and point-of-use testing (plant pathogen detection, environmental monitoring etc). From January 2017 until October 2018, David was a Group Leader within Fraunhofer Project Center at Dublin City University (FPC@DCU).

David joined School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in 2018. He teaches MEC1010 Manufacturing Processes 1, MEC1026 Fundamentals of Control, and MEC1078 Engineering Management and Engineering Economic Analysis. He is currently the school research conventor and sits on the Faculty of Engineering and Computing Research Committee. David is a funded investigator in I-Form, and an academic member of Biodesign Europe, LSI, APT, The Water Institute and RAPID