Donna O'Shea

Chair (Full Professor) of Digital Engineering, Cybersecurity, University of Limerick

Donna O'Shea is listed as Chair (Full Professor) of Digital Engineering, Cybersecurity, University of Limerick. Donna is scheduled to speak at Euro-CASE Annual Conference 2026 on 19 November 2026.

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About

Prof Donna O’Shea (PhD-07, MEng-04, BSc-02) is a leading national figure in cybersecurity research and innovation. She holds the position of Chair (Full Professor) of Digital Engineering at UL specialising in cybersecurity. She has extensive experience in winning funding and leading large-scale national cybersecurity initiatives including the HEA North South Research Programme ‘Cyber-Unite’ in collaboration with QUB, MTU & UCC, ‘Cyber-Ireland’ Industry Cluster, EI Innovator’s Initiative ‘Cyber-Innovate’ focused in increasing the number of SMEs/HPSUs in cybersecurity, HEA-HCI3 ‘Cyber-Skills’ project on responding to the critical shortage of cybersecurity professionals and Research Ireland(RI) ‘Cyber-Futures’ EPE project in cybersecurity. She is involved with government and the National Cyber Security Centre(NCSC) on policy development and collaborates extensively with industry.

Upcoming

Euro-CASE Annual Conference 2026 19 November 2026

Session 2 - Cutting it off at the source: what’s being done to prevent threats, and what can we do better? Speaker

Spoke alongside

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Dave Murphy President · Engineers Ireland 1 shared session
Enrico Zio Professor · PSL University (France); Politecnico di Milano 1 shared session
Simin Nadjm-Tehrani Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity · Linköping University 1 shared session