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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.