Audrey McSweeney is a member of the Photonics Nanostructures Group, in the Tyndall National University, University College Cork, Ireland. She is responsible for the daily coordination and management of group activities in national and European research projects. Audrey has a wealth of experience in office management, administration and as an event organiser and is now broadening her career in the scientific community. Her career in this area started in the finance industry where she was personal assistant to Head of Commercial Business. Following this Audrey worked in the Operations department of a large national utility company. Audrey was also a member of a sailing crew on a sailing yacht in Caribbean and North America, for one year in 2004. She has worked and traveled extensively in Australia, Asia and Indonesia.