Cotter, Michael A.

Michael A. Cotter was educated in St. Patrick's College Dublin, St Mary's College, London University and Trinity College Dublin. He lectured in Teacher Education Colleges in Dublin and in Dublin City University. He has served as Chairman of the Dublin Institute of Technology and as a member of the Higher Education Authority of lreland. ln 1994 he established the lrish Science Olympiad which selects and trains students to represent Ireland at the International Olympiads in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and lnformatics as weil as the International Junior Science Olympiads. He founded the European Union Science Olympiad (EUSO) and is its current President. ln 2003 he was the Director of the first EUSO in Dublin.