Ronan McNulty's incredible science journey

FROM the RDS to CERN, from playing ‘a musical typewriter’ to playing with the most powerful machine ever built.

Ronan McNulty epitomises how an interest in science can take you practically anywhere. In 1985, the then Rathmines student won the Young Scientist competition with his clever device that wrote sheet music as you played.

From there he studied physics at UCD, then went on to attain a PhD in particle physics at University of Liverpool. He joined the world’s best particle physicists working at two sites — on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, and at FermiLab in Chicago.