Jane Grimson

Senior positions In 1991, she was elected to Fellowship in Trinity College Dublin. Grimson served as Dean of Engineering and Systems Sciences from 1996 to 1999, as pro-Dean of Research in 2001 and as Vice-Provost from 2001 to 2005, She was appointed Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin in 2016. She is a Fellow and Past-President (2002) of the Irish Academy of Engineering and of the Irish Computer Society (2000-2004). She was President of the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland from 1999 to 2006. where she led the development of national standards for health information. In 2014, she was appointed Acting Chief Executive of HIQA, just prior to her retirement.

She has served on numerous boards including Science Foundation Ireland, the Energy Research Council, and was chair of the board of Mount Temple Comprehensive School, the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology and the Health Research Board

Diversity work Professor Grimson is an outspoken advocate for the advancement of women in engineering and in research more broadly. She helped to establish WiSER (the Centre for Women in Science and Engineering Research) at Trinity College Dublin, and also chaired a Department of Education and Science committee aiming to increase female representation in Science, Engineering and Technology. She is an honorary member of Women in Technology and Science.

Awards and honours Professor Grimson was elected as an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004. She was awarded the O'Moore Medal in 2007 in recognition of her contribution to the field of Health Informatics.

Personal life Professor Grimson's father was Professor Bill Wright, Chair of Civil Engineering in Trinity College Dublin. She married a fellow Engineering student at Trinity, Bill Grimson.