Eva Woods

Eva joined the McMackin Lab at Trinity College Dublin in 2023 as a HDSA Human Biology Project Research Fellow and PhD researcher. She is funded by the Discipline of Physiology and the Huntington's Disease Society of America, 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.

AWARDS & HONOURS

• European Doctoral Day Research Pitch Award (2026)

• Sustainability Leadership Award (2026)

• Trinity College Dublin Outstanding Achievement Award for PPI in PhD Research (2026)

• Bennett Prize (2026)

• National PPI PhD Award Winner (2026)

• Sarah Purser Medical Research Fund (2025, 2026)

• HDBuzz Prize Winner (2025)

• Neuroscience Ireland Best Speaker Award (2025)

• Best PPI Poster, Rare Disease Clinical Trial Network (2025)

• Best Platform Presentation, BSCN/ISCN (2025)

• Women in Research Ireland Showcase Award (2024)