Past Speakers

I did my first degree in physics at Aston 1981-1984, then a DPhil in physics in Oxford 1984-1988. I then joined The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden as a post-doc in 1988, progressing over the years to Professor of Medical Physics. I left in 2012 to take up chair in Medical Radiation Imaging in Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) in Surrey. My research interests are translation of physics and engineering to medical imaging and radiation in medicine specifically with application to radiotherapy for cancer. I am currently joint chair of Clinical and Translational Radiotherapy Research Working Group workstream 4 which has the goal of supporting development of clinical trials of new radiotherapy approaches.

Dr Dimitra Darambara is developing and implementing novel molecular imaging technologies and techniques for the detection and characterisation of cancer and its response to treatment. Dr Darambara is a detector physicist who started her career at CERN building a calorimeter for quark-gluon plasma and finally moved to medical physics to translate basic science to routine clinical practice. She is a Member of the Institute of Physics (IOP), the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). She is the current Chair of the IOP Medical Physics Group, the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Mayneord-Phillips Trust and member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) Panel for Biomedical Engineering.

Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, PhD, FREng is Director and Co-founder of the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Deputy Chairman of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, UK. Professor Yang also holds a number of key academic positions at Imperial – he is Director and Founder of the Royal Society/Wolfson Medical Image Computing Laboratory, co-founder of the Wolfson Surgical Technology Laboratory, Chairman of the Centre for Pervasive Sensing. Professor Yang’s main research interests are in medical imaging, sensing and robotics. In imaging, he is credited for a number of novel MR phase contrast velocity imaging and computational modelling techniques that have transformed in vivo blood flow quantification and visualization. These include the development of locally focused imaging combined with real-time navigator echoes for resolving respiratory motion for high-resolution coronary-angiography, as well as MR dynamic flow pressure mapping for which he received the ISMRM I. I Rabi Award. He pioneered the concept of perceptual docking for robotic control, which represents a paradigm shift of learning and knowledge acquisition of motor and perceptual/cognitive behaviour for robotics, as well as the field of Body Sensor Network (BSN) for providing personalized wireless monitoring platforms that are pervasive, intelligent, and context-aware. Professor Yang is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, fellow of IEEE, IET, AIMBE, IAMBE, MICCAI, City of Guilds and a recipient of the Royal Society Research Merit Award and The Times Eureka ‘Top 100’ in British Science.

Inge Peters graduated in applied physics at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and received her PhD in biophysics from the University of Twente where she worked on three dimensional motion detection of molecules in cell membranes by utilizing optical tweezers. She started her career at JDS Uniphase working on the development of semiconductor lasers for the telecom industry. In 2003 she joined Teledyne DALSA and since 2006 she is actively involved in the development of CMOS-based X-ray detectors. Her expertise is in the conversion of X-ray photons to visible photons and finally to the X-ray image. She is responsible for image quality of the detectors and improvements thereon. Moreover, she is leading the group developing future technologies and products within Teledyne DALSA Professional Imaging.

Martin has been working in the development of CMOS image sensors since 1996. He is the inventor of many innovations and holder of several patents. Amongst other for combined linear logarithmic response and for fast readout CMOS image sensors. He has developed several outstanding image sensors in the high-speed area scan, high-speed lines can, high dynamic range and endoscopy applications filed. Martin has a profound knowledge of computer vision and vision based automated quality control and automation systems, integrated micro optical packages and specific sensor assemblies. Specialties include: Development of CMOS image sensors, linear image sensors, area scan image sensors, high-speed image sensors, high contrast image sensors, sensors for endoscopic applications with minimal form factor.

Antonis studied biomedical instrumentation engineering, medical physics and business management, in Greece and the United Kingdom. After receiving his PhD from the Institute of Cancer Research (London, UK) he worked at GE Healthcare as R&D scientist for radionuclide imaging applications. Later, he joined Philips Healthcare Molecular Imaging, where he managed clinical research collaborations for SPECT, PET/CT and PET/MR globally. He is an active member of European trade association of Nuclear Medicine equipment and Radiopharmaceuticals Manufacturers (AIPES), representing the organisation in numerous activities, since 2008. Currently, he is Vice‑President of the Association and amongst his responsibilities is the organisation of the annual AIPES Symposium.

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Gary Royle is professor of Medical Radiation Physics within the department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering and leads a proton therapy research team. Research interests include the development of imaging and detection techniques for cancer treatments, namely proton therapy and advanced radiotherapy. The purpose of the imaging techniques is for either image guided treatments, treatment verification or to assess the effectiveness of the cancer treatment. Project areas include development of novel imaging techniques, instrumentation and computer simulation. Projects are performed in collaboration with clinical colleagues in the radiotherapy department at UCL hospital. Proton therapy projects are performed in association with clinical proton therapy centres in the UK and overseas.

Biju Jacob received his PhD at the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK working on impact ionization in avalanche photodiodes in 2002. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH, Zurich where lead Swiss TOP NANO 21 collaborative research project named ‘High Speed and Quantum Well Photodetectors’.  From 2004 to 2008 he was with Synopsys Switzerland where he developed TCAD methodologies for photodetectors and image sensors. In 2008 he moved to ESPROS Photonics AG, Switzerland as a Senior Device Engineer where he designed and developed 3D-TOF pixels. Since 2011 he works at the General Electric Global Research Headquarters, New York where he leads X-ray detector research for medical applications. He is passionate about developing detector technologies that are clinically more impactful and accessible.

Dr Renato Turchetta graduated in Applied Physics at Milan University (Italy) in 1988 and obtained his PhD from Strasbourg University (France) in 1991. He was Associated Professor in Electronics at the University there until he joined the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) in 1999 as a Senior Designer.In RAL Renato started and developed the CMOS Image Sensor Design Group that he led until 2016. He focused the group activity on the design of image sensors for advanced applications, both scientific and industrial. As examples of his activity, he led the development of the first rad-hard 16Mpixel CMOS Image Sensor for direct detection of electrons, which is now at the heart of the camera products from FEI; a wafer-scale, high speed CIS for low-energy X-ray detection; and a 5million frames per second, snapshot, megapixel CIS for ultra-high speed visible light imaging. He authored or co-authored over 100 papers in journals and 10 patents. In 2015 he was one of the founding inventors of vivaMOS, a spin-off of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, whose first products are based on Renato’s team’s work on wafer-scale CMOS image sensor for X-ray detection. In 2016, Renato left STFC and is now CEO of Wegapixel, a CIS design center and division of Specialised Imaging Ltd.

Claudio Bruschini (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL) holds an MSc in high energy physics from the University of Genova and a PhD in Applied Sciences from the Free University of Brussels (VUB). He started his career with INFN (Italy), then moved to CERN and eventually EPFL in 1995. He is now with EPFL’s Advanced Quantum Architecture (AQUA) laboratory, whose research mission is to model and develop hardware/software systems based on photonic/electronic quantum devices, high-speed and time-resolved 2D/3D optical sensing as well as their applications (medical, security, ranging), pushing the limits of CMOS technology, imaging architectures, and applications. His scientific interests have spanned from high energy physics and parallel computing in the early days, to challenging sensor applications in humanitarian demining, concentrating since 2003 on quantum photonic devices and applications thereof. He has been involved in a number of European projects starting from ESPRIT back in 1993, most lately at EPFL within MEGAFRAME (Single Photon Avalanche Photodiode – SPAD – arrays and related in-pixel time stamping electronics in deep submicron CMOS technology) and SPADnet (networked SPAD arrays for Positron Emission Tomography), and at CHUV (Lausanne University Hospital) within EndoTOFPET-US (endoscopic PET) as well as on the development of a new hand-held standalone tool for radiotracer- and fluorescence guided medical procedures. Dr. Bruschini is co-author of over 90 articles and workshop/conference presentations and one book.

Sandro F. Tedde received his PhD at the department of nanoelectronic of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), working at Siemens Corporate Technology on the development of organic photodetectors (OPDs) for medical and industrial application. He joined Siemens AG in Erlangen, Germany in 2008 covering the function of Senior Research Scientist responsible for the OPD technology and project manager. Since then, his research area is the integration of OPDs and hybrid photodetectors in medical imaging systems. Since May 2015 he joined Siemens Healthcare GmbH working as Senior Key Expert Research Scientist and project manager in the Technology Centre.

Koichi Mizobuchi received the Ph.D. degree in management science & technology from Tohoku University, Japan working on wide dynamic range CMOS image sensors using a lateral overflow capacitor (LOFIC) in 2008. From 1983 to 1989, he was with Hoxan Corp. R&D Center, where worked on superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUID) and their medical applications. From 1989 to 2010, he was with Texas Instruments Inc., Ibaraki and Dallas where he worked for advanced semiconductor memories and CCD/CMOS image sensors developments. He was a senior member of the technical staff and a development manager of image sensor products since 2002. He also served as a member of the technical program committee of the international image sensor workshop (IISW) in 2009 and 2011. He is currently, with Olympus Corp., in charge of research and development of advanced image sensing devices and modules for medical endoscopes.

Professor Henderson gained his PhD from the University of Glasgow before becoming a research engineer at the Swiss Centre for Microelectronics in Neuchatel. There he worked on low-power sigma-delta analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue converters for portable electronic systems. In 1996 he was appointed senior Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) engineer at VLSI Vision Ltd, in Edinburgh, and worked on the world’s first single chip video camera. In 2000 he became principal VLSI engineer in STMicroelectronics Imaging Division and designed the first image sensors for mobile phones. Professor Henderson joined the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in 2005 and progressed to senior lecturer and then reader, leading research in CMOS single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). In the MegaFrame EU project he developed the first SPADs in nanometer CMOS technologies. These SPAD detectors are now being commercially exploited in laser autofocus systems for mobile phones.

Jérome Mouly is a Technology & Market Analyst specializing in Medtech at Yole Développement, the “More than Moore” market research and strategy consulting company. Jérôme has worked at Yole Développement since 2000. In his 16 years with the company, he has participated in more than 100   marketing and technological analyses for industrial groups, start-ups and institutes related to MEMS, Medtech and semiconductor industry. Jérome holds a Master of Physics from the University of Lyon.