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Membership Directory

A directory listing for current members of the Royal Irish Academy.

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Becoming a Member

Membership of the Academy is the highest academic honour in Ireland.

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FAQs on Membership Nomination Process

Learn more about the Royal Irish Academy Membership nomination process

Members Research Series

In this series Members talk about their research fields to raise awareness of their work, to facilitate collaboration within the wider academic community and to inform the public.

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Samson Shatashvili MRIA, theoretical and mathematical physicist

Professor Shatashvili’s research has recently established the deep connection between two major aspects of mathematics and theoretical physics: supersymmetric quantum field theories and quantum integrable…

Gold Medal recipients

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Dermot Moran MRIA, philosopher

Professor Moran approaches his research interests in Early Medieval philosophy and twentieth-century European philosophy, especially phenomenology, largely from a historical perspective, exploring how ideas arise…

Gold Medal recipients

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Cormac Ó Gráda MRIA, economic historian

Professor Ó Gráda’s solo and collaborative research over a long, and much-enjoyed, career as an economic historian has seen him engage with topics ranging from…

Gold Medal recipients

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Fergus Shanahan MRIA, clinician–scientist

Research resulting from Professor Shanahan’s longstanding curiosity with the traditional lives of Irish Travellers has revealed that their microbiome challenges restrictive definitions of a healthy…

Gold Medal recipients