Dr Geraldine Canny is Head of Research at South East Technological University in Ireland. She holds a B.Sc. in Biotechnology from the National University of Ireland Galway and a PhD in Immunology from University College Dublin. Dr Canny held the position of Instructor at Harvard Medical School from 2005-2007. Subsequently, as a Senior Lecturer at Lausanne University Hospital and the University of Lausanne, she established and ran a translational research programme on endometrial biology and endometriosis. From 2009 to 2012 Dr Canny also held the position of Adjunct lecturer at University College Dublin.

Dr Canny was then employed at a foundation and at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where she managed several national and international fellowship programmes and European funding programmes. She voluntarily established the regional platform for a public-private partnership devoted to patient education and facilitated an endometriosis patient education group for 5 years.

Between 2018 and 2021 Dr Canny held the position of Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) National Delegate and National Contact Point. During her tenure as Head of the Irish MSCA office funding awarded to Irish HEIs, companies and non-academic organisations exceeded 95 million euros. MSCA was the area of highest drawdown for Ireland under Horizon 2020. Dr Canny led a project under the Net4Mobility+ CSA and as a National delegate, contributed to the policy underpinning MSCA in Horizon Europe. She also served as a Steering committee member for several MSCA COFUND programmes and the Irish Health Research Forum and is currently a Board Member of the Endometriosis Association of Ireland. She is passionate about all things research, funding, research assessment, ethics and the support and training necessary for researchers to thrive.