Shane Foley is a Radiographer by training and currently Associate Professor and the Head of Subject for Radiography in University College Dublin, Ireland, where he has been teaching for 17 years. His primary research interests are in radiation dose and optimisation methods especially in Computed Tomography, areas in which he completed his PhD studies in 2013. He is a past president of the Irish Institute of Radiography and Radiation Therapy and is a current member of the Executive Board of the European Federation of Radiographer Societies.