About Us

"Our mission is to advance University of Galway’s research excellence by creating and implementing a coordinated ecosystem of state-of-the-art core facilities. We aim to achieve this by leveraging the expertise of highly experienced technical professionals, ensuring operational excellence, and making strategic decisions on infrastructure and investments to support groundbreaking research and innovation."

Aoife Duffy

Director, Technology Services Directorate

Services

The Technology Services Directorate (TSD) currently has five cores within the Directorate and each one of these cores has state-of-the-art equipment in-situ, which are outlined below. In addition to the equipment, each core has a highly experienced and specialised technical officer(s) who manages each core and provides training, consulting and research support for all users both internally and externally to the university. The cores are located within the Biomedical Sciences Building, the Human Biology Building, the Lambe Institute and the Orbsen Building.

Autonomous Use

• Users can undergo full training and evaluation on equipment
• Users can book and use the instruments autonomously
• Technical support available as required
• Charges based on hourly rate

Assisted

• Work is carried out by the technical staff
• Assisted charges are available for all instruments

Industry Services

• Full range of services available for industry
• Provide consultation and technical advice
• Assisted work and project design