Niamh Nic Daéid is an Irish forensic scientist. She is Professor of Forensic Science and Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee.

She earned a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from the Dublin Institute of Technology and Trinity College, Dublin, followed by a PhD in bio inorganic chemistry from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.^[1]

In 2014, Nic Daéid was appointed as Professor of Forensic Science at the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee, having been an academic at the University of Strathclyde for 20 years, where she rose to be the first woman to earn a personal chair in the Department of Chemistry.^[2]

Niamh Nic Daeid was born in 1967 in Dundee, Scotland and grew up in Ireland. Her parents were scientists involved in the investigation of fires, and she and her brother earned pocket money as children sticking their parents' fire scene photographs into scientific reports.^[3]

In 2017 she was appointed as an expert witness for Grenfell Tower public inquiry presenting oral evidence for the Public Inquiry on two occasions.^[4]

In January 2025 Nic Daéd appeared in the first episode of the second series of Lucy Worsley Investigates on BBC Two, providing a modern view of how the infamous Jack the Ripper case was handled by scientific experts at the time.^[5]

In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.^[6]