Royal Irish Academy Masterclass Series 2012 – Present 15/04/2019 Wayne Powell, SRUC 29/03/2019 Michele Nicoletti, University of Trento, Italy 01/02/2019 Rob Ivison, European Southern Observatory (ESO) 29/01/2019 John Walsh MRIA, University College Dublin 22/01/2019 David Cannadine, British Academy 7/11/2018 Máire O’Neill MRIA, Queen’s University Belfast 16/10/2018 Martin Hairer, Imperial College London 25/09/2018 Chris Bean, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies 18/06/2018 Venki Ramakrishnan, Royal Society 19/04/2018 David Birkett, Henkel 07/03/2018 Alvin Jackson Hon. MRIA, The University of Edinburgh 10/01/2018 Catherine Day MRIA, Former Secretary-General of the European Commission 22/11/2017 Noah Finkelstein, University Colorado Boulder 15/11/2017 Louis Cullen MRIA, Trinity College Dublin 13/11/2017 Stephen O’Rahilly Hon. MRIA, Cambridge University 02/11/2017 Fergus Shanahan MRIA, University College Cork 26/10/2017 Chris Rapley CBE, University College London 04/10/2017 Clair Wills Hon. MRIA, Princeton University 12/09/2017 Mary McAleese MRIA, Pontifical Gregorian University 29/06/2017 Vivienne Ming, Socos Learning LLC, USA 30/03/2017 Nils Christian Stenseth, University of Oslo 04/11/2016 Ronald Hanson, University of Delft 27/10/2016 Jonathan Bate, University of Oxford 26/10/2016 Ann Dowling, Royal Academy of Engineering 17/10/2016 Shafi Goldwasser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 26/09/2016 Alan Smeaton MRIA, Dublin City University 26/05/2016 Timothy Williamson Hon MRIA, University of Oxford 12/05/2016 Michael Graetzel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 13/04/2016 Richard Ellis, University College London 23/02/2016 Philip Lane MRIA, Central Bank of Ireland 01/12/2015 Margaret Murnane Hon MRIA, University of Colorado, Boulder 25/11/2015 Mike Cruise, University of Birmingham 10/11/2015 Joyce Tait, University of Edinburgh 05/11/2015 Louise Richardson Hon MRIA, University of Oxford 05/11/2015 Eric Ladizinsky (Belfast), Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at D-Wave Systems 04/11/2015 Eric Ladizinsky (Dublin), Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at D-Wave Systems 16/10/2015 Daniel Spielman, Yale University 29/09/2015 Mike Hulme, Kings College London 09/07/2015 Stuart Rice Hon MRIA, University of Chicago 25/05/2015 Monica Grady, Open University 23/05/2015 Michael P. Conzen, University of Chicago 10/05/2015 Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France 12/03/2015 Alan Titley MRIA, University College Cork 26/02/2015 Enrico Colombatto, University of Turin 07/11/2014 David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge 05/11/2014 Chris Field, Stanford University 16/10/2014 Cédric Villani Hon MRIA, University of Lyon 18/09/2014 John McNeill, Georgetown University 29/07/2014 Jules Hoffmann, University of Strasbourg 06/06/2014 Richard Bellamy, University College London 05/06/2014 Silvia Giordani, Trinity College Dublin 29/05/2014 Rose Anne Kenny MRIA, Trinity College Dublin 14/04/2014 Jocelyn Bell Burnell Hon MRIA, Trinity College Dublin 13/01/2014 Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse 16/10/2013 Roger Penrose Hon MRIA, University of Oxford 26/09/2013 Barry Smyth MRIA, University College Dublin 13/06/2013 Paul Nurse Hon MRIA, Francis Crick Institute 16/01/2013 Henri-Bernard Soligcac-Lecomte, OECD 20/11/2012 Mario Molina, University of California 18/09/2012 Tibor Tóth, Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBTO) 11/07/2012 Peter Doherty, University of Melbourne 03/07/2012 James D Watson Hon MRIA formerly of Cold Harbor Spring Laboratory .