Eva Woods

Eva joined the McMackin Lab at Trinity College Dublin in 2023 as a PhD researcher funded by the Discipline of Physiology Scholarship, where she combines EEG, TMS, and MRI methodologies to identify early neurophysiological biomarkers in Huntington’s disease (HD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). 

She previously completed a BSc in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Maynooth University, conducting the university’s first combined Biology Department - Electronic Engineering Department joint undergraduate thesis, later published and presented at the 2023 World Congress of Neuroscience. Her research experience spans clinical neurophysiology, neurofeedback, and computational neuroscience, including internships at Actualise and the Dublin Mind Clinic (2016–2021), a research assistantship in Maynooth’s Electronic Engineering Department (2022–2023), and her current role as a doctoral researcher leading multimodal HD studies, developing analysis pipelines in MATLAB and R, and coordinating patient and public involvement initiatives such as Ireland’s first HD Research Day and the country’s inaugural HD Patient Participant Involvement Panel.
Eva  possesses voluntary roles as Trustee of Women in Research Ireland, committee member on the National Women’s Council Youth Advisory Panel, and active member of the European Huntington’s Disease Network and its Imaging Working Group. 

Her work so far, has been recognised through numerous awards and competitive funding, including the Sarah Purser Medical Research Fund, travel bursaries, Best PPI Poster (Rare Disease CTN), Best Platform Presentation (BSCN/ISCN),  Women in Research Ireland awards, and the Best Overall Biology Undergraduate Thesis at Maynooth University. Most recently, she received the HDBuzz 2025 Writing Competition Award and was granted a Huntington’s Disease Society of America Human Biology Project Fellowship for 2025/26.