Liam Barry received his BE (Electronic Engineering) and MEngSc (Optical Communications) degrees from University College Dublin in 1991 and 1993 respectively. From 1992 until 1996 he was employed as a Research Engineer in the Optical Systems Department of France Telecom’s Research Laboratories. During this period his research involved the use of ultra-short optical pulses in high capacity optical networks, and as a result of this work he obtained his PhD Degree from the University of Rennes. In February 1996 he joined the Applied Optics Centre in Auckland University, New Zealand, as a Research Fellow and in 1998 he took up a lecturing position in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU), and established the Radio & Optical Communications Laboratory. He is currently a Full Professor in DCU and his main research interests are; all-optical signal processing, hybrid radio/fibre communication systems and tuneable lasers for reconfigurable optical networks.
He has published over 500 articles in internationally peer reviewed journals and conferences, holds 9 patents in the area of optoelectronics, has co-founded two companies in the photonics sector, and has supervised 36 research graduate students to completion (29 at PhD level). He was a TPC member for the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) from 2004 to 2016 and served as conference co-chair for ECOC in Dublin in 2019. He also served as a TPC member and Chair of the Optoelectronic Device Strand for the Optical Fibre Communication Conference. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Photonics Journal and IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications & Networks.