DrRonan Lordan

Article contributed to the May issue of the ‘Your Neighbourhood Scientist’ newsletter, a nonprofit organization working to make science accessible. The title was ‘Timing is everything: how circadian clocks shape our health… and why funding basic science research can’t wait’. Link: https://neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/timing-circadian-clocks/

City Coordinator for the Philadelphia Pint of Science Festival in 2024 and 2025. In 2025, events were held at Cavanaugh’s Headhouse Bar and the Two Locals Brewing Company, Philadelphia. The themes presented were: ‘Our Body’, ‘Atoms to Galaxies’, ‘Beautiful Minds’, and ‘Tech Me Out’. Over 240 attendees and 12 speakers took part and the events were sponsored by GiantMicrobes Inc. (New York) and Rockland Immunochemicals Inc. (Philadelphia), www.pintofscience.us

Co-Chair of the Penn Postdoctoral Conflict and Conduct Working Group where we worked to improve working conditions for over 1,400 postdoctoral researchers with a focus on conflict and resolution.

Co-Director of Pint of Science Ireland. The register charity number is 20204755. Directing the Pint of Science festival across 11 cities in Ireland with over 100 volunteers nationally. www.pintofscience.ie

Contributor to the DSM Yoghurt in Nutrition Initiative: Dairy fats and cardiovascular disease: Do we really need to be concerned? (https://www.yogurtinnutrition.com/dairy-fats-cardiovascular-disease/)

Director of 'The Science of Beer' event for the Philadelphia Beer Week Festival, June 5th, 2024. Held at the Two Locals Brewing Company.

Eastern National Coordinator for the Pint of Science Festival, May 19-21, 2025, overseeing Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, Boston, and Durham www.pintofscience.us

Interviews by FutureNeuro & NeuroAdapt as part of their Spotlight series across multiple social media networks.

Interviewed by the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Centre regarding my appointment as the Co-Director of Pint of Science Ireland

Presented my NeuroAdapt project and proposed PPI activities to a panel of patients, scientists, and members of the public.

Interviewed by Erin Philips the National Health Reporter at Spectrum News USA live and for an article “Can Vitamin D Help Fight COVID-19?”, which was published in Across the USA. 22 October 2020 (https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/10/22/vitamin-d-supplements-coronavirus-covid-19).

Interviewed by Ali Mcpherson Health and Science Multimedia Reporter at WHYY produced by PBS and NPR for radio and an article “A new study shows vitamin D can lower COVID-19 risk, especially for Black people”, which was published March 28th 2021 with coverage in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey (https://whyy.org/articles/a-new-study-shows-vitamin-d-can-lower-covid-19-risk-especially-for-black-people/).

Interviewed by Tony Lapp for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Biomedical Informatics Newsletter. The article titled “How CU Data Scientists Are Debunking COVID-19 Misinformation” was published January 12th, 2024. (https://news.cuanschutz.edu/dbmi/how-cu-data-scientists-are-debunking-covid-19-misinformation)

Interviewed by Dr Brittany Truong for the Newsletter SPLASH, published by the International Milk Genomics Consortium at the University of California - Davis: (https://www.milkgenomics.org/?splash=new-fda-backed-qualified-claim-yogurt-lowers-diabetes-risk)

Zabetakis, I., Tsoupras, A. & Lordan, R. (2019) ‘Novel food-grade extraction and counter-current distribution techniques for isolating bioactive polar lipids and astaxanthin with in vitro and ex vivo anti-inflammatory and antithrombotic properties, from several foods and by-products for the development of novel supplements and nutraceuticals according to EFSA, FSAI and EU legislations and directives’. University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

A visit of 4 Irish and 4 USA secondary school students as part of the larger ITMAT-First exchange program run by the University of Pennsylvania (https://www.med.upenn.edu/fitzgeraldlab/itmat-first).

Judge for the PennFERBS Research Symposium (First Exposure to Biological Sciences; https://web.sas.upenn.edu/pennferbs/).

Member of the Judging Panel for the 2026 Global Undergraduate Awards, Dublin, Ireland.

https://www.limerickpost.ie/2018/05/16/pint-of-science-at-jj-bowles/

Our main achievements include: Introduced policy change to establish Compacts between mentees and mentors; Developed the postdoctoral liaison/community advisor position for conflict and conduct; Introduced awards for promoting good mentorship by mentors and postdocs.

National Report (Ireland): Cadmium Mitigation in Brown Crab (19/SRDP/002). Government report tendered by Bord Iascaigh Mhara on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Ireland, and Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation Co Donegal Ireland. Funded by the European Fisheries Fund. University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

Poster Judge for the International conference for Healthcare and Medical Students (ICHAMs)

Presentation to TY secondary school students at RCSI.

Contributor to the Irish national broadcaster ‘RTÉ Brainstorm Initiative’: Can yoghurts and cheese reduce the risk of heart disease? (https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/0802/982610-can-yogurts-and-cheese-reduce-risk-of-heart-disease/)

Contributor to the Irish national broadcaster ‘RTÉ Brainstorm Initiative’: Why inflammation rather than cholesterol causes chronic disease (https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/0627/973638-why-inflammation-rather-than-cholesterol-causes-chronic-disease/)