Michael is an Assistant Professor in Advanced Heat Transfer, a Research Ireland-Royal Society University Research Fellow and a PI in the Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin (TCD).

Michael received his PhD and BAI in Mechanical Engineering from Trinity College Dublin. He has completed Fellowships with the Surface Engineering and Instrumentation Lab (SEiL) at York University and the Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies (CACT) at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Gibbons has close to fifteen years of research experience in Fluids, Heat Transfer and Energy. His research focuses on fundamental and applied multiscale fluids and heat transfer, energy recovery and zero-carbon technologies using combining computational, experimental and machine-learning approaches.

Michael leads his Thermal Fluids and Energy research group, TCD. He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications, all available open access and has secured €3.4M in research funding, €1.8M as Principal Investigator and €1.6M as Co-PI with industrial partners. In addition, he was the co-chair of the THERMINIC 2022 international conference and is a lead researcher on a European Space Agency (ESA) Parabolic Flight Programme.