Prof Niamh Nowlan was appointed Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at University College Dublin in 2021. Prof Nowlan is a member of the Conway Institute. Prior to joining UCD, she was a member of the academic staff for ten years in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, UK.

Prof Nowlan focusses her research on three key areas: paediatric orthopaedics; how mechanical loading affects skeletal development; and fetal movement monitoring.

Prior to starting her group as PI, Prof Nowlan held two postdoctoral fellowships in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and in the Centre for Genomic Research, Barcelona, Spain. In 2009, she travelled to the USA as a Fulbright scholar, and spent six months working in Boston University. Prof Nowlan obtained her PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in 2007, and holds a degree in Computer Engineering also from Trinity College Dublin.