Prof. Peter O’Brien is head of the Photonics Packaging & Systems Integration Group at the Tyndall Institute, University College Cork, Director of the European Photonics Packaging Pilot Line (PIXAPP) and leads the new European Photonics Academy at PhotonHub Europe. His group is a research partner in multiple EU, SFI, DARPA and direct industry projects. Prof. O’Brien previously founded and was CEO of a start-up company manufacturing photonic systems for bio-imaging applications, which he sold in 2009. Prior to this, he was a researcher at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he developed millimetre-wave devices for space sensing applications. He received his degree and PhD in Physics from Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork respectively.