Staff
Doctoral Training Management
Jim Davies is a Professor of Software Engineering within the Department of Computer Science, and a group leader within the BDI. He is leading the development of data standards and infrastructure for clinical and laboratory data across a network of NIHR Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs), as part of the NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative. He is also the Lead Data Scientist for the National Consortium for Intelligent Medical Imaging, funded by Innovate UK. | |
Thomas Nichols is a Professor of Neuroimaging Statistics within the Nuffield Department of Population Health, and a group leader within the BDI. He has a unique background, with both industrial and academic experience, and diverse training including computer science, cognitive neuroscience and statistics. The focus of Tom’s work is developing modelling and inference methods for brain image data. | |
is a Professor of Engineering Science in the Department of Engineering Science and the Nuffield Department of Medicine, and a group leader within the BDI. His research interests lie in enabling biomedical imaging through the development of new analysis algorithms and novel computational platforms, with a current focus to improve mechanistic understanding of cancer and patient care through quantitative analysis of image data. |
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Katrina Lythgoe is a co-Director of the CDT. She is an Associate Professor in Infectious Disease in the Department of Biology and a Group Leader in the BDI. She is a world leader in the evolutionary genetics of viral infections and is currently the genomics lead of the Office of National Statistics Covid Infection Survey – the largest community surveillance study of SARS-CoV-2 in the world. |
Teaching and research supervision
Teaching, mentoring, and research supervision is provided by a wide range of leading specialists from departments including the Departments of Computer Science, Statistics, and Engineering Science, the Nuffield Department of Population Health, and the Nuffield Department of Medicine. See the full faculty list.