Dr Lynette Keeney is a Senior Researcher and a Royal Society-Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) University Research Fellow at Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork. As a materials scientist, she focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing the physical properties of new materials with the goal of implementing them in future data storage solutions. Dr Keeney specialises in vapour deposition and scanning probe microscopy techniques.

A graduate in inorganic chemistry from the National University of Ireland, Galway (PhD 2005), Dr Keeney earned five University awards during her studies. Prior to joining Tyndall in 2008, she worked as a Chemist at Charles River Laboratories, Pre-clinical Services, Montreal Inc.

Internationally recognised as a key researcher in the multiferroics community, Dr Keeney has an impressive record with over 1040 paper citations and invitations to speak at prestigious meetings. She has successfully secured over €3.4 million in independent research funding to date.

Dr Keeney has received prestigious awards, including the Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate (2023) and multiple Royal Society-SFI University Research Fellowship awards (2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022). In 2015, she was honoured with the UCC Early-Stage Researcher of the Year Award.

Through her Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate, Royal Society Awards, and SFI-awarded Frontiers for the Future Project (2020), Dr Keeney is expanding her research team to explore how sub-unit cell characteristics influence multiferroic behaviour and emergent topologies. Her focus is on determining if these intriguing multiferroic properties can persist close to unit-cell thicknesses.