Brian Dominic MacCraith MRIA HonFInstP (born Dundalk, 1957), is an Irish physicist who was the third president of Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland.
After his term in office, he took up voluntary roles, including the chairs of Ireland's High-Level Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccination and Future of Media Commission.
MacCraith worked for a time at Dundalk Institute of Technology, then in 1986 he joined the staff of DCU, teaching in the physics area, and establishing the university's Optical Sensors Laboratory.
[3] MacCraith was, in 1999, the founding Director of the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR) at DCU, helping to secure funding of almost 10 million in matching grants from Atlantic Philanthropies and the Irish government's PRTLI programme.
[6] He also emphasised the importance of Ireland's east-coast population corridor, and expressed hopes of building links between DCU and Dundalk IT, and County Louth in general, and in 2012, the two institutions concluded a cooperation agreement.
[3] He is also Chairperson of the three-member Board of Trustees of the Genio Trust, overseeing disbursal of funds for work in certain areas of social innovation, including dementia and home care.