He is also a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. Previously he has been a lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology, a visiting scholar at Aalborg University Denmark and a Marie Curie Fellow at Plaxis BV in the Netherlands. He received a PhD from the University of Dublin in 2013 for a thesis entitled 'Active Strategies with TMDs for Control of Wind Turbine Vibrations'. His main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of structural dynamics and control, health/condition monitoring of civil engineering structures, wind energy and energy systems for smart cities.