Brian_Norton_(engineer)
Brian Norton (engineer)
Irish engineer, President of Dublin Institute of Technology 2003-2018
Brian Norton is a solar energy applications researcher and technologist. As president of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) from 2003 to 2018,[1][2] he was an advocate for diversity of higher education in Ireland.[3][4] He has also been associated with the relocation of DIT from a multiplicity of scattered buildings to a single city centre campus in the Grangegorman neighbourhood of Dublin[5][6] and the creation of the Technological University Dublin, Ireland's first Technological University.
In 2020 he became head of energy research at Tyndall National Institute,[7][8][9] research professor at University College Cork as well as professor of solar energy applications at Technological University Dublin.