Biography
Prof. Maria McNamara is a palaeobiologist in the School of BEES at UCC. She has a PhD from UCD and did postdoctoral research there before working as a Geopark Geologist in what is now the Burren-Cliffs of Moher Global Geopark. She then then worked as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University (USA) and did further postdoctoral research at the University of Bristol, before taking up her appointment as Lecturer in Geology at UCC. Her research focuses on the preservation of soft tissues in the fossil record and how this provides unique insights into the biology of ancient animals. Her research is highly interdisciplinary and lies at the interface of geology, palaeontology, evolutionary biology, chemistry and applied physics.
Active iCRAG projects:
- The impact of organic matter on heavy metal bioavailability in urban soils: experimental and field-based approaches
Role
- Co-Principal Investigator
Institution
- UCC
Research Area
- Earth System Change, Earth Resources
Expertise
- Critical Materials, Geomarine Environment, Environmental Geoscience
