Having obtained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 1999, Dr. Sean Commins was first appointed as Lecturer (2001) and then as Senior Lecturer (2008) in the Department of Psychology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He has over 60 publications in international neuroscience journals such as Brain Research, Hippocampus, European Journal of Neuroscience and Learning & Memory and has presented his work at many international conferences. Dr. Commins’ research is the general area of behavioural neuroscience and is particularly interested in spatial navigation and the formation of long-term spatial memories. He also examines the role of the hippocampus and the surrounding cortical area (entorhinal and perirhinal) in memory formation and investigates its molecular underpinnings.

Dr. Roche was appointed Lecturer in Maynooth University’s Department of Psychology in 2005 following postgraduate and postdoctoral study in Trinity College Dublin. He has established Ireland’s first high-density EEG laboratory. His research interests lye in memory, spatial representation, psychosis, stroke, and decision-making. He has published over 35 research articles and two books, and acted as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2014-2016). He has received over €1,235,000 in research funding.