Professor Mike Murphy
Chairperson, Board of Asiera and Emeritus Fellow of Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin).
Professor Murphy holds an honors diploma in electrical engineering from Dublin Institute of Technology, and a BSc (Eng) Honors Degree from Trinity College Dublin. He earned MEng and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in the United States. He holds a Diploma in Corporate Governance from The Corporate Governance Institute. Professor Murphy is a Chartered Engineer.
Professor Mike Murphy has served on the Asiera Board since September 2017 and was appointed as Board Chairperson in April 2023. He has extensive board experience including the Boards of EduCampus Services, the Central Applications Office, the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), and also as Chair of the European Engineering Deans Council. He was President of SEFI from 2017 to 2019, and successfully elected as a Fellow of Engineers Ireland, and as a SEFI Fellow for his contributions to Irish and European engineering education respectively.
Over his 20 years in TU Dublin, he held a number of senior academic management roles, including leading the initiative that led to the successful establishment of TU Dublin, Ireland’s first designated technological university. He has worked as the Academic Registrar and Director of Academic Affairs, Digital and Learning Transformation at the University, with responsibilities that included academic quality assurance, learning and teaching library services, ICT services and the development of a digital campus. Professor Murphy’s tenure at TU Dublin also included roles as Faculty Director of Engineering, and Director and Dean of the College of Engineering and Built Environment. His final role at TU Dublin was national coordinator for the €40 million NTUTORR initiative to transform teaching and learning across the technological university sector in Ireland, a project funded by the European Commission through Ireland’s National Recovery and Resilience Programme.
Professor Murphy spent more than 14 years in the high tech telecommunications industry in the United States with AT&T Bell Laboratories (Bell Labs), and subsequently with Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).