Dr Clodagh Carr

Dr Clodagh Carr is a researcher and network manager for NPOWER, a Horizon Europe project which aims to reduce nitrogen and phosphorous emissions from agriculture, aquaculture, wastewater management, energy and transport, and industrial sectors. The NPOWER consortium consists of 25 partners from 6 EU countries (Spain, Ireland, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, and France) working to develop a set of technical and management solutions that help to re-balance N/P nutrient cycles, limiting the pollution of air, water, and soil ecosystems. The project seeks to engage practitioners, policy makers, and academic and research representatives to strengthen stakeholder networks and gather key insights from each emitting sector.

Clodagh graduated with a BSc in Biotechnology (2019) and a PhD in Microbiology (2024) from University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland. During her PhD training, which was funded by the SSPC Research Centre, she investigated marine bacteria as a source of plastic-degrading enzymes for sustainable bio-catalysis and bio-recycling applications. She gained a broad range of knowledge across environmental microbiology, genome mining, protein chemistry, and computational biology, and completed part of the project at the Technical University of Denmark during a 6-month research visit.

Prior to joining the Circular Bioeconomy Research Group, Clodagh was a research assistant on an Enterprise Ireland Innovation project relating to the disposal of bio-based medical waste and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Brunel University London under the Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Centre, with a focus on the capture and treatment of pollutants from water and wastewater streams.