Linda Doyle

Linda Doyle is a native of Cork.[1] She did her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering in University College Cork.[2] She completed a M.Sc. in 1993 and a Ph.D in 1997 at Trinity College Dublin.

Doyle works with wireless communications, reconfigurable networks, and the creative arts. She worked as the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Value Chain Research before developing it in to the national research centre focused on telecommunications, CONNECT.[3] She advises the National Broadband Steering Committee in Ireland, Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board in the United Kingdom and Wireless@KTH in Sweden. Doyle is also on the boards of Pallas Studios and The Douglas Hyde Gallery as well as Science Gallery International. She is also part of the Festival of Curiosity in Dublin.[4]

In 2018 Doyle became the Dean of Research and Professor of Engineering and the Arts at Trinity College Dublin. In 2021 she was elected to the role of Provost of the college when the position was being contested by three women, also including Linda Hogan and Jane Ohlmeyer, making it the first time a woman became provost since the founding of the college.[5]

In July 2021 she was named as Cork Person of the Month.[6]