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Niamh Shaw
Niamh Shaw is an Irish scientist, engineer, STEM communicator, writer, and performer.
Shaw was the 2019–2020 Honorary Ambassador for the Irish Girl Guides in recognition of the trail she has blazed for girls and women in Ireland. Her first book, Dream Big: An Irishwoman's Space Odyssey, published by Mercier Press tells the story of her 40-year quest to fulfill her childhood dream.
Shaw graduated from University College Dublin in 1990 with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, focusing on Biosystems Engineering, a Master in Biosystems Engineering in 1995, and Ph.D. in Food Science in 2001.
From 2001–2003 Shaw was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Food Science and Technology at University College Dublin.
In 2015, she participated in the International Space University Space Studies Programme.
In 2003, Shaw began performing and acting. In 2007–2008 she appeared as Frances McGuigan in Fair City and as Mable Mills in the movie Dorothy Mills. She also appeared in Satellites & Meteorites (2008), A Shine of Rainbows (2009), Hideaways (2011), Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure (2012), and You're Ugly Too (2015).
As an improvisation comedian, she has performed with The Craic Pack Comedy Improv, The Cardinals, Snatch Comedy, Cork, and The Second City, Los Angeles.
In 2011, Shaw created her first theatre show, "That's About the Size of It". During the show's making, she was invited by an arts initiative at CERN (Arts@CERN) to discuss her ideas about STEM and public engagement with particle physicists at the facility. The show toured from 2011 to 2013.
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Niamh Shaw
Niamh Shaw is an Irish scientist, engineer, STEM communicator, writer, and performer.
Shaw was the 2019–2020 Honorary Ambassador for the Irish Girl Guides in recognition of the trail she has blazed for girls and women in Ireland. Her first book, Dream Big: An Irishwoman's Space Odyssey, published by Mercier Press tells the story of her 40-year quest to fulfill her childhood dream.
Shaw graduated from University College Dublin in 1990 with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, focusing on Biosystems Engineering, a Master in Biosystems Engineering in 1995, and Ph.D. in Food Science in 2001.
From 2001–2003 Shaw was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Food Science and Technology at University College Dublin.
In 2015, she participated in the International Space University Space Studies Programme.
In 2003, Shaw began performing and acting. In 2007–2008 she appeared as Frances McGuigan in Fair City and as Mable Mills in the movie Dorothy Mills. She also appeared in Satellites & Meteorites (2008), A Shine of Rainbows (2009), Hideaways (2011), Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure (2012), and You're Ugly Too (2015).
As an improvisation comedian, she has performed with The Craic Pack Comedy Improv, The Cardinals, Snatch Comedy, Cork, and The Second City, Los Angeles.
In 2011, Shaw created her first theatre show, "That's About the Size of It". During the show's making, she was invited by an arts initiative at CERN (Arts@CERN) to discuss her ideas about STEM and public engagement with particle physicists at the facility. The show toured from 2011 to 2013.