Colin Boyle is Research & Development Engineer on the Wellcome Leap In Utero funded project to design and clinically validate a novel wearable device for fetal movement monitoring. Dr Boyle was awarded his PhD and BA BAI (Mechanical Engineering) degrees from Trinity College Dublin. Following his studies, Dr Boyle qualified as a Mathematics teacher and taught for four years in London under the Teach First scheme. Next, Dr Boyle conducted postdoctoral research in skin biomechanics at Imperial College London, and prior to joining UCD in 2023, Dr Boyle held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in RCSI, Dublin Ireland.