Mary Mulvihill biography

Mary Mulvihill has worked as a science writer, editor, broadcaster and media consultant for nearly 20 years, and won the Science Journalist of the Year Award in 2003 for her book, Ingenious Ireland, which is the definitive guide to Ireland's scientific heritage.

A regular contributor to The Irish Times, she has also written for Nature, New Scientist and the Guardian and for ten years edited Technology Ireland.

Before all that, she had a career in science: as a research geneticist with the Agricultural Research Institute, now called Teagasc. A committed champion of women in science, she was
instrumental in founding WITS, the association for Women in Technology & Science.  She was a member of the Irish Bioethics Council, the National Committee for the History of Science, the NUJ and former president of Women in Technology and Science and the Irish Science Journalists Association.