Biography
Miriam Byrne is a Junior Lecturer in the Physics Department at NUI, Galway, and a member of the Department’s Atmospheric Research Group. She joined the staff of NUI, Galway in February 1999, having previously spent almost ten years at Imperial College London, UK. At Imperial College, where she obtained her PhD, she acted as project manager of a succession of European Commission contracts focused on the generation of indoor aerosol transport data for radiological risk assessment. She has been involved in the development of novel techniques for tracer labelling of aerosol particles, and the development of methods for studying the interaction between aerosols and human skin. She is a collaborator in an ongoing modelling study of personal exposure to air pollution, funded by the UK Department of the Environment.

Miriam Byrne was a member of the steering committee of The Aerosol Society of the British Isles from 1994 to 1999. She chairs the Executive Organisation Committee for the European Aerosol Conference 2000, to be held at Trinity College Dublin in September 2000, expected to attract 500 delegates. She is also a member of the CEC Dermal Exposure Network, and of the Institute of Physics.