Rate My Professor Sean Fair

Fair's research specializes in assisted reproduction in domestic animals, particularly sperm interactions with the female reproductive tract and its secretions across bovine, equine, ovine, and human models. His investigations employ in vitro and in vivo techniques to explore male-to-male variation in sperm functional parameters and uterine immunological responses, nutritional control of puberty, microfluidic-based sperm selection, and ewe breed differences in cervical function impacting sperm transport. This work has attracted funding from Science Foundation Ireland through the Investigators Programme, the European Union ERA-Net, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Research Stimulus Fund, the Irish Research Council for PhD stipends, Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund, Teagasc Walsh Fellowships, and industry collaborators. He has produced over 100 research outputs, including 'Cervical artificial insemination with frozen-thawed semen in sheep: the secret is in the cervix of Norwegian ewe breeds' (Biology of Reproduction, 2026), 'Spatial differences in the ovine cervical microenvironment at the follicular and luteal phases of the oestrous cycle; Implications for sperm transport' (Theriogenology, 2026), and 'Acrosome-Disrupted Dead Sperm Impact the Function of Live Bovine Spermatozoa After Cryopreservation' (Reproduction in Domestic Animals, 2026). Fair has served as President of the International Congress on Animal Reproduction (2022), Chair of the University of Limerick Animal Welfare Body (2015-2022), and Director of the Association of Applied Animal Andrology (2016-2020). He received the University of Limerick President's Research Excellence and Impact Award in the Advanced category.