Meet the Team

Dr Sinéad Holden, Assistant Professor in Sport and Exercise Physiology and Ad Astra Fellow (UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science & Institute for Sport and Health, UCD). Her research interests include wearable and health technologies and data analytics to optimize strategies for enhancing human health, well-being, and athletic performance across the lifespan. As a member of the Trials Methodology Research Network, she progresses real-world data into clinical research. She has a special interest in Women’s health in sport and Exercise across the life-course and serves on the leadership group for míde, the Irish Women in Sport Research Consortium, which brings together researchers across physiology, endocrinology, sociology, psychology, and healthcare. She has >80 peer reviewed publications, >1.5 million Euro in funding (primary and co-investigator combined).

A. Prof. Brian MacNamee is UCD Site Director for the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics & Co-Director of the Research Ireland Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning (UCD School of Computer Science). Brian brings extensive expertise in machine learning methods designed for real-world, large- scale, and imperfect datasets—directly aligned with the challenges of wearable physiology and menstrual health data. His research spans methodological innovation and applied impact with significant experience in cross-sectoral industry collaborations. His work has included applying machine learning to complex sensor datasets in health, pregnancy, and other applied domains, with a strong emphasis on interpretable and responsible AI.

Prof. Brian Caulfield is Full Professor of Physiotherapy and former Director of Insight@UCD (2013-2023). Professor Caulfield brings internationally recognised expertise in digital health, wearable sensor technologies, and the development and validation of digital biomarkers across health, sport, and clinical contexts. His work has directly informed product development, regulatory evaluation, and deployment of sensor-based health technologies.

Evgenia Angelidi is a Research Engineer working at Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and is responsible for developing and maintaining the CycleSync Data donation platform. With a BSc in Sports Science and MSc in Data Science, Evgenia brings a unique blend of software development, data science, machine learning, and technical expertise alongside a fundamental domain understanding of issues facing women in Sport and Exercise Science. Her work focuses on digital health innovation and the application of wearable and health data to support research-driven and real-world healthcare solutions.

Eline is a PhD student at the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science in UCD. Eline came to her current role with a BSc in Life, Science and Technology from University of Groningen and an MSc In Sports Sciences, during which she published a scientific article on female athletic performance and female-specific health challenges. Her current PhD focus is on mobile and wearable technology in female athletes. This includes qualitative research to learn about women’s lived experiences of mobile applications for menstrual cycle tracking in female athletes, as well as experimental studies on the effect of the menstrual cycle on wearable derived biometric data.