Aoife Brady

Chief Operations Officer, iCRAG

Dr Aoife Brady was recently appointed the new Chief Operations Officer (COO) of iCRAG, the (SFI) Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre in Applied Geosciences hosted by University College Dublin (UCD). Prior to taking up this position, Aoife held the role of Industry and Research Programme Manager at iCRAG and was responsible for managing the Centre's Research Programme and its programme of industry partner engagement. Aoife graduated with a BSc Hons in Earth Science from the University of Galway in 2006 after which she completed a PhD in carbonatites, kimberlites, and lamprophyres also at University of Galway. Following this, she worked as an exploration geologist for 4.5 years on the Songwe Hill Carbonatite Project with Rare Earth Element (REE) exploration company, Mkango Resources, in southern Malawi, Africa. She then changed direction and took up the role of Geodata Product Manager at International Geoscience Services (IGS) Ltd., based at the British Geological Survey (BGS) in Nottingham, where she helped develop the company's new mineral prospectivity software.  Before joining iCRAG, Aoife made the move to the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) where she managed, Tellus, the GSI's national ground and airborne data acquisition programme.