Jeff Punch

Prof. Jeff Punch is a faculty member of the School of Engineering at the University of Limerick, specialising in the thermal sciences. In terms of research, he directs the Stokes Laboratories at UL s Bernal Institute a research group dedicated to education and innovation in mechanical engineering science and he is a Funded Investigator of the SFI s CONNECT Centre.

He has wide-ranging research interests in the analysis of micro-scale mechanical engineering phenomena within the application areas of electronic and micro-electromechanical systems with emphasis on thermal / energy management and reliability physics. He has won over 10 million in industrial and research funding to date, and is currently supervising five postgraduate students and mentoring one postdoctoral researcher.

He has authored or co-authored well over 150 refereed publications and five patents, and has presented numerous invited talks on aspects of the thermal management and reliability of electronic systems at venues worldwide.