Martin Leahy

Chair of Applied Physics

Martin Leahy is the Chair of Applied Physics at the University of Galway and Distinguished Visiting Professor at ICFO, Barcelona. He is a serial entrepreneur having been technical and/or executive lead of several successful spin-out companies in biophotonics and energy. He is founder and Chair of the International Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School (BIGSS – http://tinyurl.com/yrf27jwb). His group invented the heart rate app which is now in use by more than 500 million people as well as cmOCT to image the microcirculation, nanosensitive OCT to sense nanostructure and multiple reference OCT to achieve a 100-fold reduction in size and cost. More recently, his group have developed a label-free super-resolution microscope and synthetic OCT. He secured more than €14M in external R&D funding since 2007 He is a Fellow of IoP, SPIE and Optica.