Eoghan McGarrigle

Eoghan McGarrigle studied chemistry at University College Dublin (Ireland), obtaining his PhD with Prof. Declan Gilheany in the area of M(salen) mediated asymmetric epoxidation. This was followed by postdoctoral research developing a method for the synthesis of P-stereogenic phosphorus compounds which was commercialized. In 2005, he moved to the University of Bristol as the Research Officer in the group of Varinder Aggarwal, focusing on the development of organosulfur catalysts and reagents in organic synthesis. In 2009, he was appointed as the course manager of the Bristol Chemical Synthesis Doctoral Training Centre. In 2012, he rejoined University College Dublin, as an independent research group leader under the Starting Investigators Research Grant scheme funded by Science Foundation Ireland/Marie-Curie CoFund. He was appointed subsequently as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at UCD in 2016 and promoted to Assoc. Professor in 2024. He was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland in 2015. The McGarrigle group interests include organocatalysis, carbohydrate chemistry, organosulfur and organophosphorus chemistry, photochemistry and automation.