Rate My Professor Patrick McGarry

Professor Patrick McGarry is Personal Professor and Head of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Galway. He earned a BE degree, an MEngSc in Hydrological Engineering, and a PhD in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering. Before joining the University of Galway as Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering in 2006, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science. He advanced to Senior Lecturer in 2017 and Professor in 2021. McGarry has undertaken prestigious visiting appointments, including Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Graz in 2017, Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin in 2017, and visiting faculty at the University of Cambridge in 2018. He has collaborated on research with ten industry partners and six leading clinical institutes in vascular, cardiac, and orthopaedic biomechanics, as well as medical device analysis.

McGarry's research specializes in computational and experimental solid mechanics, numerical simulation and finite element analysis, constitutive law development, microstructural modelling of materials, tissue biomechanics, cell biomechanics, stroke and thrombus biomechanics, fracture mechanics, medical device design, orthopaedic biomechanics, cardiovascular biomechanics, composite structures, turbine design, and fluid mechanics. He has authored over 100 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals on solid mechanics, biomechanics, and advanced computational simulation. Notable publications include 'Cellular automata and crystal plasticity modelling for metal additive manufacturing' (Kavousi et al., 2024), 'On the Importance of Including Cohesive Zone Models in Modelling Mixed-Mode Aneurysm Rupture' (Concannon et al., 2024), and 'A simplified mesoscale 3D model for characterizing fibrinolysis under flow conditions' (Petkantchin et al., 2023). He has supervised 21 PhD students and seven postdoctoral researchers, and secured major funding from Science Foundation Ireland and EU-H2020. His contributions have garnered ten major international prizes from institutions such as the World Congress of Biomechanics and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, two Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland medals for best bioengineering research, two Engineers Ireland medals for biomedical engineering research, and the University of Galway President's Award for Research Excellence in 2015. McGarry has delivered 16 invited keynote lectures at leading international conferences.