Philip Nolan (professor)

Philip Nolan
Born
NationalityIrish
Known forChair of the NPHET Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group
Director General of Science Foundation Ireland
President of Maynooth University
Children2
Academic background
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
ThesisReflex responses to upper airway negative pressure (2003)
Academic work
DisciplinePhysiology
Director General of Science Foundation Ireland
In office
16 January 2022 – 27 May 2024
Preceded byMark Ferguson
Succeeded byCiarán Seoighe (acting)
President of Maynooth University
In office
August 2011 – October 2021
Preceded byJohn G. Hughes
Succeeded byEeva Leinonen

Philip Nolan is an Irish physiologist, academic and public administrator. He served as the director general of Science Foundation Ireland from 2022 to 2024. He previously served as the chair of NPHET's Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group from March 2020 to February 2022, president of Maynooth University from August 2011 to October 2021, deputy president of University College Dublin for academic affairs and registrar from 2004 to 2011.