Dr. Garrett Mcguinness

Dr Garrett McGuinness is Head of School and Associate Professor at DCU's School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. He joined the academic staff of DCU in 2000 having previously held industry roles in medical device development at Hollister Incorporated and in engineering consultancy at MCS International (now Wood Group). Prior to that, he obtained BE and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Galway (formerly University College Galway). He has also held Programme Chair and Associate Dean roles at DCU and visiting positions at US universities.

At Dublin City University, he has developed a strong research programme in advanced materials, biomaterials and medical devices. He has contributed to EU Framework and Horizon projects in the areas of materials characterisation and processing (NOVELSCAFF, PANBioRA, TOXBOX, Print4Life).

Garrett regularly acts as supervisor for PhD and research Masters’ degrees. He has authored or co-authored >60 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and conference papers.

He acts as a reviewer for several leading engineering journals and international research funding agencies. He sits on the Editorial Boards of IMechE's Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanoengineering and Nanosystems and also of Sustainable and Green Materials. He acted as Section Editor for the Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (Elsevier 2022) and the Comprehensive Green Materials reference work (also Elsevier 2025).

He is a Chartered Engineer and active member of Engineers Ireland, where he chairs the Membership and Qualifications Board.