## Professional Experience 2019 - Present: Software Engineer, Cisco, Ireland. 2018 - 2019: Co-founder and CTO at ZEG.ai, London, UK. 2017 - 2017: Cohort Member, Entrepreneur First, London, UK. 2013 - 2013: Design Engineer, Powerak Ltd., Sunshine Coast, Australia. 2009 - 2009: Intern Software Engineer, MCS Kenny, Ireland. 2008 - 2008: Intern Software Engineer, Simulia (Dassault Systemes), Rhode Island, USA. ## Academic Experience 2014 - 2017: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. 2013 - 2013: Research Associate, NUI Galway, Ireland. 2009 - 2013: PhD Biomedical Engineering, NUI Galway, Ireland. 2005 - 2009: BE Mechanical Engineering (1:1), NUI Galway, Ireland. ## Fellowships and Awards * Digital Catapult Machine Intelligence Garage Cohort, Application Co-Author, 2019. * MSB Network Travel Grant, Co-Author, 2017. * MSB Network Travel Grant, Co-Author, 2016. * CRUK Oxford Kickstart Fund, Co-Author, 2015. * Associate Fellowship - 2020 Science Program, 2014-2016. * ICHEC Class B Project - Proposal co-author for time on Ireland’s national HPC cluster (500,000 CPU hours), 2011. * IRCSET PhD Fellowship under the EMBARK initiative (e72,000), 2009. * NUI Galway University Scholarship for academic performance, 2006 - 2008. * NUI Galway University Entrance Scholarship for academic performance, 2005. ## Honours * Winner of Mathematical Sciences category, STEM for Britain awards for Early Career Researchers at the Houses of Parliament, 2017. * 2nd best paper in the established researcher category, RAMI bioengineering section conference, 2012. * RAMI bronze medal for best overall paper, RAMI bioengineering section conference, 2011. * Best paper, Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium, 2011. * Best presentation, NUI Galway CoEI research day, 2010 and 2011. * Shortlisted for the Young Investigator in Biomechanics award at the Endocardiovascular Biome- chanics Research (EBR) Congress, Marseille, France, May 2010. * Shortlisted for the Innovative Student Engineer Ireland award (Top 5) and Best Mechanical Engi- neering Graduate in the UK and Ireland (Top 3) at the SET awards 2009. * Best final year project, Engineers Ireland West division, 2009. * Frederic Barnes Waldron prize for top mechanical engineering graduate and MCS prize for best final year project in mechanical engineering, NUI Galway, 2009. ## International Conference Presentations * J.A. Grogan, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Modelling micro-vascular transport in tumours using intra-vital imaging data, Proceedings of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB) Conference, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 2016. * J.A. Grogan, B. Markelc, T.T. Tapmeier, R.J. Muschel, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Parameter identification and validation of multi-scale vascular tumour models using imaging data, Proceedings of the IVth International Conference on Computational Bioengineering, Barcelona, Spain, September 2015. * J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Micro-scale modelling of metals for coronary stent ap- plications, Proceedings of the European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC), Graz, Austria, July 2012. * J.A. Grogan, A. Bobel, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Bioreabsorbable stents: some recent develop- ments in analysis and design recommendations, Proceedings of the Endocardiovascular Biomechanics Research (EBR) Congress, Marseille, France, May 2012. * J.A. Grogan, B.J. OBrien, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, A phenomenological corrosion model for biodegradable metals with application in bioabsorbable stent assessment and design, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials (IWCMM), Limerick, Ireland, August 2011. * J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Modelling and experiments to aid performance assessment of biodegradable metallic stents, Proceedings of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, USA, October 2010. * J.A. Grogan, S.B Leen, P.E. McHugh, A phenomenological model of corrosion in biodegradable metallic stents, Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC), Florida, USA, June 2010. * J.A. Grogan, S.B Leen, P.E McHugh, Computational modelling of biodegradable metallic stents, Proceedings of the Endocardiovascular Biomechanics Research (EBR) Congress, Marseille, France, May 2010. ## Invited Talks * Panellist at the Italy for Innovation series in the Italian Embassy, June 2019. * J.A. Grogan, A.J. Connor, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, A computational framework for multi-scale vascular tumour growth models, Computational Life Sciences Workshop, RWTH Aachen, Germany, June, 2016 * J.A. Grogan, B. Markelc, R.J. Muschel, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Assessing Mathematical Models of Oxygen Transport and Blood Flow in Tumour Micro-Vasculature Using Intravital Imaging Data, Proceedings of the Angiogenesis Gordon Research Conference, Rhode Is- land, USA, August 2015. ## Symposium and Workshop Talks * J.A. Grogan, B. Markelc, I. Rodriguez-Villarreal, T. Alarcon, Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Integrating Multiphoton Imaging, Microfluidics Channels and Mathematical Modelling to Study Vascular Networks in Tumours, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Oxford Annual Symposium, Oxford, United Kingdom, June, 2016 * J.A. Grogan, B. Markelc, I. Rodriguez-Villarreal, T. Alarcon, Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Integrated Intravital Imaging and Mathematical Modelling of Vascular Networks in Tumours, Quantitative Biology in Oxford (QBIOX) Springboard Meeting, Oxford, UNited Kingdom, May 2016. ## Teaching Activity * Inter-collegiate Course Tutor: Mathematical Physiology, University of Oxford. * Teaching Assistant: Finite Element Methods, National University of Ireland, Galway. * Lab Demonstration: Dynamical Systems, Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) - Systems Medicine and Mathematical and Computational Biology Modules, University of Oxford. Engineering Computing (Fortran) and Thermodynamics, National University of Ireland, Galway. ## Peer Reviewing Activity * Annals of Biomedical Engineering * Acta Biomaterialia * Biomechanics and Modelling in Mechanobiology * BioMedical Engineering OnLine * Biomedical Materials Research: Part B * Bulletin of Mathematical Biology * Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions * International Journal of Mechanical Sciences * Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics * Journal of Biomechanical Engineering * Journal of Theoretical Biology * Mathematical Biosciences * Materials Science and Engineering B * Nature Communications * PLOS Computational Biology * Scientific Reports - Nature