Professor Helen Sheridan BSc, MA, PhD, FRSC, FTCD

Dr. Helen Sheridan is the founder and academic director of the NatPro Centre for Natural Product Research located at TCD (2019 – to date).  She completed her B. Sc in University College Dublin (UCD) with first class honours Helen completed her Ph. D in Natural product Chemistry in UCD (1980-3). She was awarded a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Travelling Fellowship which she held at Oxford University under the direction of Professor Sir Jack Baldwin. She also had a subsequent period of research supported by the Irish and French Governments at the CNRS at Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris in the research group of Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Derek Barton. Helen returned to UCD on an Irish Government Fellowship and carried our research and teaching there, in the area of natural products before taking up her academic position in the SoPPS at TCD.