ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
2007 Level 2 Introductory Certificate in Team Leading. Institute of Leadership and Management
2003 Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET), Queen's University Belfast
1999 Ph.D. Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Queen's University Belfast
1996 BSc. (Hons) Anatomy, Queen’s University of Belfast
CAREER HISTORY
2009 - Present Lecturer in Cell Biology, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Research Group, Nanotechnology and Integrated Bio-Engineering Centre (NIBEC), School of Engineering, Faculty of Computing and Engineering, University of Ulster at Jordanstown.
2004 - 2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Research Group, NIBEC, School of Engineering, Faculty of Computing and Engineering, University of Ulster at Jordanstown
2002 - 2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Radiation Science, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, BT52 1SA.
2000 - 2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Trauma Research and Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, BT9 7JB.
Teaching & Learning Activities
Duties include Course Direct BSC Hons Sports Technology, module coordinator for the BSc (Hons) Biomedical Engineering Degree, teaching anatomy and physiology, tissue engineering and bioreactors to undergraduate and MSc students and undertaking research into tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Research Interests
George Burke is Lecturer in Cell Biology at the Nanotechnology and Integrated Bio-Engineering Centre at the University of Ulster. He graduated with a BSc, PhD and PGCHET from Queen’s University Belfast. He is currently a member of the Trauma and Rehabilitation Recognised Research Group, acts as Treasurer for the Northern Ireland Biomedical Engineering Society, is a Committee member for the Microscopical Society of Ireland and a member of the Tissue and Cell Engineering Society, UK. He has a number of published research papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented research findings at 40 national and international research conferences. He has two main areas or research; firstly, to investigate the complex bio-molecular interactions at the interface of cellular growth on biomaterial surfaces, and secondly, to examine how these molecular mechanisms may be altered by novel surface modification techniques. This work involves the analysis of the complex cellular response to manufactured biomaterials and medical polymers.
