Ambre Bertrand

My DPhil aims to improve our understanding of cardiac abnormalities in type 2 diabetes, a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, using a combination of statistical methods and multi-scale cardiac modelling and simulation applied to clinical data from the UK Biobank (primarily ECG and imaging). My supervisors are Prof. Blanca Rodriguez, Prof. Vicente Grau and Dr. Julia Camps.

I have an interdisciplinary engineering-based background; I completed my MEng in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford where I specialised in biomedical signal processing, image analysis and machine learning, with a Master's project in cancer radiomics. I’ve held research intern positions in medical data science and modelling including at the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering; a medical device start up; and the University of California, San Diego jointly with Simula Research Laboratory, Norway.

When I am not behind my computer screen, I love spending time outdoors, swimming, cycling, running, reading, and cooking with/for my friends and family!