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Current Post
Oct 2008 – present
Previous Posts
Oct 2005 – Oct 2008*
Professor of Medical Physics
HEFEC funded (0.8FTE)
Dept. Medical Physics and
Bioengineering, UCL
Oct 1999
Oct 1996
– Mar 2005*
– Sep 1999*
Senior Lecturer
Lecturer
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MRC Non Clinical Research Training
Fellowship
Dept. Medical Physics and
Bioengineering, UCL
Dept. Medical Physics and
Bioengineering, UCL
Dept. Medical Physics and
Bioengineering, UCL
Jan 1991 – Sep 1996 Research Fellow Dept. Paediatrics, UCL
Oct 1988 –Dec 1990 Clinical Physicist Dept. of Clinical Measurements,
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
*Two periods of maternity leave (1997,1999), 0.6 FTE 1997 – 2005 and 0.8 FTE 2005 – present
Education
1995
1991
PhD “Measurement and Data Analysis Techniques for the
Investigation of Adult Cerebral Haemodynamics”
MPhil “Measurements in the diagnosis and treatment of
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea”
BSc (Hons) Physics with Medical Physics (IIi)
University of London
University of Exeter
1988 University of Exeter
Other Appointments
2016 Chair , Gordon Conference Lasers in Biology and Medicine
2014 President, International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue
2014 Co-Chair , Gordon Conference Lasers in Biology and Medicine
2013 Editor , Special Issue of Neuroimage
2012 Organiser and Chair , fNIRS International Conference, London
2012 Organiser , UK-Japan Conference on Multi Modal Brain Imaging, London
2011 Editor , Special Issue of Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society
2010 Organiser and Chair , Theo Murphy Royal Society Scientific Discussion Meeting
2010 Senior Fellow , UCL Biomedical Research Centre
2010 Expert Advisor , Wellcome Trust and Department of Health, Health Innovation Challenge
2010 External Reviewer , Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
2010 Executive Committee Member , International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue
2010 Organiser , fNIRS International Conference, Harvard, USA
2010 Organiser, Japan-UK Workshop on Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Tokyo
2008 Visiting Professor , Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex
2008 Organiser and Chair , European Workshop on Near Infrared Spectroscopy, London
Research Profile
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Director of the Near Infrared Spectroscopy Research Group in the Biomedical Optics Research
Laboratory University College London (UCL).
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Pioneered novel near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) methods for measurements of tissue oxygenation, haemodynamics and metabolism in neonates, young infants and adults.
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Leads a number of interdisciplinary teams developing novel optical methods for non invasively monitoring tissue oxygen status in brain and muscle.
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Research projects include studies of brain development, acute brain injury in adults and infants, sports performance, paediatric cardiology, malaria, and infant malnutrition in rural Gambia.
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In excess of £7M of research funding secured to date, from research councils, charities and industrial sponsors including Hitachi Medical Systems and Hamamatsu Photonics.
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Over 200 publications and a book, with in excess of 4500 citations.
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Melvin H. Kniseley International Young Scientist Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of
Oxygen Transport to Tissue.
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MRC Science Suffragette Award 2013