Claire Lillis
Claire Lillis, Senior User Experience Manager, Aerogen Ltd
Claire Lillis is Senior UX Manager with Aerogen, the world’s leader in aerosol drug delivery.
Claire studied Biomedical Engineering at NUI Galway, graduating in 2005. She joined Aerogen in 2006 and, over the past 19 years, has built a career spanning Mechanical Design, Project Management, Programme Management, and now leadership of Aerogen’s UX department.
Claire completed an MSc in Design Innovation at Maynooth University in 2019, graduating top of her class. Her studies focused on human-centred design for product, software, and service development.
Claire has recently established and grown the UX function within Aerogen, fostering a company-wide culture of human-centred design and overseeing the usability and human factors of all Aerogen devices. She set up a dedicated UX Lab to conduct formative and summative usability studies in-house and conducts research in patients’ homes, ensuring Aerogen products meet the highest standards of usability and design. Her work covers devices used with neonate, paediatric, and adult patients across homecare, emergency services, and hospital environments.
Claire has a decade of experience managing the design and manufacture of ‘drug-device combination’ products for clinical trials in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies. For six years, she served as Programme Manager on Aerogen’s aerosolised surfactant delivery programme, a complex device designed to treat premature babies in respiratory distress shortly after birth, which is currently in clinical trials in the US.
In 2021, Claire was awarded the prestigious Chartered Engineer of the Year title by Engineers Ireland.