Awards & Achievements

  • >€16m in competitive research funding received directly as Principal Investigator
  • Elected President of Association for Information Systems, the global professional body for the Information Systems discipline (2019)
  • Fellow of Irish Computer Society, British Computer Society and Association for Information Systems
  • Conference Chair responsibility for 11 international conferences (eight of which hosted in Ireland for the first time, including 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Dublin in 2016)
  • Best Conference Paper Awards:
    • 21st International Conference in Information Systems, 2000
    • 1st International Conference on Open Source Software, 2005
    • 37th International Conference in Information Systems  (Nominated), 2016
  • PhD thesis nominated for Best Doctoral Thesis competitions:
    • International Conference on Information Systems
    • Distinguished Dissertation in Computer Science, UK
  • Founding President: Irish Chapter of Association for Information Systems
  • Founding Chair: IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software
  • Secretary/Vice-Chair and Chair IFIP Working Group 8.2 Organizational & Social Aspects of IS, 2006-2013.
  • Regional representative for Europe, Middle-East & Africa for Association for Information Systems, 2006-2008
  • AIS Sandra Slaughter Award Service Award (2015)
  • IFIP Outstanding Service Award (2013)
  • IFIP Silver Core Award (2016)
  • Invited seminars/keynotes in Argentina, Austria, Australia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Norway, Oman, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, UK and US