Peter Dockery, BSc(Hons), PhD (General Anatomy)

Peter Dockery received a BSc (Hons) in Biology from the University of Strathclyde in 1981. He obtained a PhD in Anatomy (1986) from the University of Aberdeen. Postdoctoral work was undertaken on the human endometrium at the Harris Birthright Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Sheffield. In 1988 he was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy at the Department of Biomedical Science University of Sheffield. In 1990 was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy at the Department of Anatomy University of Hong Kong. In 1995 was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy University College Cork. Then Statutory Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy University College, Cork in 2001. He joined the BioScience Institute when it opened in September 2002.He was appointed as director of the Advanced Microscopy Research Facility in the Neuroscience/Anatomy Section of the BSI. In July 2005 took up post as Established Professor of Anatomy at NUIGalway and is the Director of Core Imaging facility at NUI,Galway 2006-Present.He is currently the Vice Head of the School of Medicine at NUIGalway.