Professor Edmond Magner studied at University College Cork (B.Sc.) and the University of Rochester (M.S., Ph.D.) and subsequently did postdoctoral work on electrochemical biosensors with Prof. W.J. Albery, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, and on nonaqueous enzymology with Prof. A.M. Klibanov, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked at MediSense, Inc and Abbott Laboratories in Bedford, Massachusetts in teams that developed electrochemical biosensors for glucose and hydroxybutyrate (combined sales of over $100 M per annum). He was appointed as a lecturer (1997) in the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Limerick and was appointed as professor of electrochemistry in 2012–. He served as Director of the Materials and Surface Science Institute (2003–2010) and as Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (2014–2019). He has supervised the research work of 22 Ph.D., 10 M.Sc. and 10 postdoctoral fellows and has secured funding of over €25 M from national, EU and industry sources. His research examines the properties of enzymes at surfaces with a focus on using enzymes in biocatalysis, biosensors and biofuel cells. With his research group, he has described the first studies of the thermodynamic processes associated with redox proteins in nonaqueous solvents, described specific ion effects on the catalytic activity of redox enzymes and published a large body of work on the immobilisation of enzymes on high surface area supports. ​