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Patrick J. Prendergast

Born in Enniscorthy, Ireland, in 1966, Patrick Prendergast studied at
Trinity College Dublin (TCD) where he graduated with a BAI in engineer-
ing in 1987 and a PhD in 1991. He was a Council-of-Europe Scholar at the
University of Bologna (Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli) and a Marie Curie
Fellow at the University of Nijmegen before being appointed a lecturer in
TCD in 1995. He was elected to Fellowship of the College in 1998. He won
the European Society of Biomechanics Research Award in 1996. He is on
the editorial board of the Journal of Biomechanics and Clinical
Biomechanics. He was President of the Section of Bioengineering of the
Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland from 1998 to 2000. Scientific inter-
ests include computer simulation of tissue differentiation and bone remod-
elling, and the design of medical devices.