Sean Leen

Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering
NUI Galway, Ireland
Email: sean.leen@nuigalway.ie

Sean Leen is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NUI Galway since 2008. He is a member of the Ryan Institute for Environment, Marine and Energy. Sean is an SFI-funded Principal Investigator in the I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and of a project called MECHANNICS: Multi-scale, through-process characterisation for innovative manufacture of next-generation welded connections. He was previously Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Nottingham, where he completed his PhD with Professor Tom Hyde. Sean previously worked within the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centres for Advanced Manufacture and Advanced Gas Turbine Transmissions at the University of Nottingham. He also worked for some time in engineering consultancy on finite element software development for the design and analysis of offshore oil and gas structures. Sean’s research interests include computational solid mechanics, with particular application to high temperature plasticity, contact mechanics, manufacturing processes and structural integrity (e.g. fatigue, fretting and wear).