Gallery of Contemporary Art and formerly chaired the Board of Science Gallery International. Recognition In 2009 Prendergast was awarded an ScD for published works in Bioengineering. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy in the Sciences division, and since 2013, an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He gave the Wartenweiler Lecture of the International Society of Biomechanics in 2009, and the Richard Skalak Lecture of the Biomedical Engineering Department of Columbia University in 2014. For his scientific contributions he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Anatomical Society in 2016, and an Honorary Member of the European Society of Biomechanics in 2018. In popular culture Prendergast was portrayed by Frank Smith in the 2020 miniseries Normal People. References External links Year of birth missing (living people) People from Enniscorthy People educated at St Peter's College, Wexford Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Members of the Royal Irish Academy Provosts of Trinity College Dublin Living people