A chartered building services engineer, currently acting as senior lecturer of Building Engineering within the College of Engineering and Built Environment in TU Dublin.
Ciara has over 15 years’ experience as an academic combined with over 12 years’ industrial experience practicing as a consultant design engineer on residential and commercial building projects.
Ciara is the Minister of Education and Skills nominee to the board of the Construction Industry Register Ireland (CIRI), established to develop and promote best practice in buildings and construction.
Ciara is a funded investigator with SFI/MaREI, actively researching energy resilience within the built environment and sits on the board of EnergyCloud, a social enterprise looking to innovative solutions to divert excess renewable energy, otherwise wasted, to fuel poor homes
