Linda Doyle | |
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 Doyle delivering the WITS Mary Mulvihill Lecture 2021 | |
| 45th Provost of Trinity College Dublin | |
| Assumed office 1 August 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Patrick Prendergast |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Cork, Ireland |
| Domestic partner | Simon Tonge[1] |
| Residence | Provost's House |
| Education | University College Cork (B.E.) Trinity College Dublin (M.Sc., Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Institutions | Trinity College Dublin |
| Thesis | Radio-wave propagation in Dublin City at 2 GHz (1997) |
Linda E. Doyle is an Irish academic and educator who is the 45th Provost of Trinity College Dublin, the university's chief officer, having assumed the office in August 2021. An electrical engineer, she has had a long academic career at Trinity, from the 1990s, most recently as Professor of Engineering and the Arts, in addition to holding other management roles such as Dean (and Vice-President) of Research. She has also led one telecommunications research centre at the university, and was the founding director of another, the multi-institution organisation known as CONNECT. Doyle has worked as a member of regulatory and advisory bodies in both Ireland, on broadband network strategy, and the UK, on mobile spectrum allocation. She is or has also been a director of public outreach projects such as Science Gallery Dublin and its international network, of two non-profit art galleries, and of two university spin-off companies.