Our researchers

Our team can help you discover business opportunities and address challenges related to learning, technology and innovation. We help you identify funding options for your organisation and guide you to apply.

Luciana Medeiros

UX/UI Designer

Luciana is a commercial designer specialising in gamified learning, UX/UI, and EdTech, creating award-winning projects with multidisciplinary teams since 2000.

Birva Mehta

UX/UI Specialist

Birva is a UX/UI Specialist with 8+ years of experience in the ed-tech sector, specialising in LMS, design processes, interaction design, and UI accessibility to create intuitive, data-driven solutions that enhance user experiences and educational interactions.

Peter Gillis

Research Lead & Innovation Team Lead

Peter specialises in learning motivation, cognitive psychology, quantitative and qualitative research, structured innovation facilitation, and commercial acumen.

Dr. Richard Harte

UI/UX Specialist

Richard is a UX/UI Specialist with 15 years of applied research experience in areas such as fall detection, patient monitoring, data visualisation, classroom technology integration, literacy screening and learning platform design. He has a keen interest in all things user experience!

Pablo Alvarez

Technology Lead

Pablo is a multidisciplinary engineer, teacher and researcher with more than 20 years of leading innovation in the learning space, civil engineering, and academia.

Janet Benson

Learning Lead

Janet is a learning professional with over 20 years’ experience in both industry and academia with a passion for effective adult learning theory and the use of technology for learning.

Dr. Ian O’Keeffe

Technology lead

Ian is a passionate and energetic technologist with a proven record in leading the design and development of innovative learning technology solutions at the cutting edge.

Frank O’Reilly

Learning Researcher

Frank has over 20 years experience in corporate learning and development, project management and business analysis. He has worked in a range of industries across Ireland and France.

Helena Ledermann

K12 Pedagogy Researcher

Helena is a passionate and experienced educator with a wealth of national and international experience teaching and designing learning through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), inquiry-based transdisciplinary teaching, leading literady, curriculum creation, learner agency, and high-performance learning.

Daniel Fernandez

Web Developer

Daniel is a web developer specialising in building responsive, user-friendly interfaces with React.js. He is experienced in front-end technologies, state management, and integrating APIs to deliver seamless and dynamic web applications.

Bilal Ahmed

Technology Lead

Bilal is a highly experienced Postdoctoral Researcher researching the needs of a diverse set of stakeholders and translating those into software applications (web and mobile).

Ilse White

Senior Learning Researcher

Ilse is Learning and Development professional with over 20 years experience developing impactful, technology focused, scaled learning solutions in onboarding, skills development, and management & leadership development.