On 23rd of February, as part of the 1st Brazil Ireland Science Week, Prof. Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr. from University of São Paulo, Brazil, visited Insight and the NCSR. His talk “Nanosciences in the convergence of technologies: from reductionism to the use of Big Data” brought together a lot of researchers from various different fields including materials science, chemistry, biochemistry and Big Data. As outcomes of Prof. Oliveira’s visit, there’s likely to be up to 3×12 month research visits by Brazilian faculty and PhD students to NCSR/Insight.