Born in Cork, Julie started a Joint Honours Degree in Mathematics and Physics in University College Cork in 1998, graduating in 2002. During her final year of her degree her teaching career began as she tutored first year engineers. In 2003, she started a research masters in Mathematics with Professor Finbarr Holland in University College Cork in area of Mathematical Analysis during which time she continued tutoring Mathematics. After graduating with an M.Sc. in 2004, Julie then spent some time in Eastern Europe settling in Warsaw, Poland. In Spring 2005, Julie returned to Cork as most Corkonians do. She started lecturing Mathematics at Cork Institute of Technology. During her time in C.I.T. Julie lectured maths modules to students from many disciplines inluding Physics, Computing, Engineering (Biomedical, Civil and Mechanical), Business and Culinary Arts as well as lecturing in the National Maritime College of Ireland. In October 2006 Julie returned to education. She started her Ph.D in Mathematics with Dr. Tom Carroll of University College Cork on the topic of Brownian motion. Throughout her Ph.D. she continued tutoring and lecturing Mathematics. Between 2010 and 2012 she ran Cork Maths Centre. Following this she again returned to CIT for good this time as a lecturer of Mathematics. Currently, Julie does a lot of work in the Academic Learning Centre in CIT where she runs Maths drop in sessions which are attended by students across all disciplines and levels.
Talks/Presentations:
• “Numbas as a Tutorial Tool”, Irish Maths Learning Support Network, National University of Galway, May 2016
• “A Case Study of Maths and Stats Support, development and delivery”, E-assessment Workshop, Cork Institute of Technology, May 2014,
• “A Tale about Functions”, Mathsfest 2013, University College Dublin, October 2013
• “Student Engagement with Mathematics Support at Cork Institute of Technology”, 7th Annual Irish Workshop on Mathematics Learning and Support Centres, Queens University Belfast, December 2012
• “A Tale about Functions”, Mathsweek, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, October 2012.
• “Mathematical Enrichment Programme – Maths Circles”, Irish Mathematical Society, Institute of Technology Tallaght, August 2012.
• “A Generalization of Regulated Functions”, Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, March 2012.
• “A Tale about Functions”, Nonlinear Dynamics Conference in Memory of Alexei Pokrovskii, University College Cork, September 2011.
• “My Favourite Functions”, University of Limerick. April 2010.
• “Some Drunk Flies in a Pub”, IGNITE, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, December 2009.
• “Brownian Motion in a Ball in the Presence of Spherical Obstacles”, London Mathematical Society, London, September 2009.
• “Collections of Spherical Obstacles that Brownian motion can avoid”, RDS, Dublin, April 2009 and UCC, Cork, March 2009.
• “A Characterization of avoidable collections of Spherical Obstacles in the Unit Ball”, Analysis Seminar Series (3 talks), UCC, Cork, February 2009.
• “My favourite functions –the journey thus far”, Postgraduate Seminar, University College Cork, November 2008.
• “A fly on Murphys”, International Workshop on Multi-Rate Processes and Hysteresis, University College Cork, 2008.
• “Regulated Functions”, International Conference on Hysteresis and Mutli-scale Asymptotics, University College Cork, 2004
• “Regulated functions on Davison Spaces” at the British Mathematics Colloquium, Queens University Belfast, 2004.