Tyndall National Institute is an ICT research institute under University College Cork. Its research profile covers a broad range of topics, ‘from atoms to systems’ – from theoretical material science to complex optoelectronic systems in fields of telecommunications, quantum computing and biomedical. It has about 400 staff and students – mostly postgraduate level.

PIONEAR utilizes unique expertise of Tyndall in the area of systems integration and packaging, including assembly process development and micro-transfer printing which is critical to integration of lasers into the small optical microphone.