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Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering

Researcher using some biomedical engineering equipment

Our group brings together engineers and computer scientists to discover new approaches to prevent, diagnose and manage health and medical conditions. Our research is end-to-end across digital health from sensors and meditech through to data science, AI and decision systems.

Part of Electronics and computer science

About

Our interdisciplinary research addresses a wide range of topics from fundamental research through to translational patient-centred research and innovation. Examples include:

  • sensors and biosensors
  • control system design and rehabilitation technologies
  • lab-on-a-chip and microfluidics
  • biomedical signal processing and machine learning
  • wearable technology for healthcare
  • digital behavioural interventions
  • autonomous disease management
  • AI and health
  • data trusts for healthcare
  • consent and privacy management

Facilities


Researchers can make use of our dedicated multi-function biocontainment lab, the Centre for Hybrid Biodevices.

People, projects and publications

People

Mr Abdullah Almuntashiri

Connect with Abdullah

Email: aa1r21@soton.ac.uk

Dr Adriana Wilde PhD

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Safe, inclusive, and secure digital technologies for health to empower people to live independently

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Adriana

Email: A.Wilde@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 0624

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Professor Age Chapman

Professor of Computer Science
Connect with Age

Email: Adriane.Chapman@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Al Edwards

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Affordable microfluidic diagnostics and "µMicro" miniaturised microbiology
  • Engineering next generation vaccines: formulation and function

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Al

Email: A.D.Edwards@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 0128

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Dr Arturo Vazquez Galvez

Engineering Research Fellow
Connect with Arturo

Email: A.Vazquez-Galvez@soton.ac.uk

Dr Brian Pickering MA, PGCert, MSc, DPhil, MBPsS, MBCS

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • technology use, especially in healthcare
  • the ethics of AI and explainable AI from a user perspective

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Brian

Email: J.B.Pickering@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Chengchen Zhang PhD

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Disease Diagnosis and Therapy
  • Nanomaterials (Liquid Metals and Polymers based) 
  • Enviromental Monitoring

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chengchen

Email: Chengchen.Zhang@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 7447741265

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Dr Chris Duckworth PhD, MSci

Senior Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence for Health and Wellbeing
  • Explainable Machine Learning
  • Human Centred Interactive Systems
Connect with Chris

Email: C.J.Duckworth@soton.ac.uk

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Professor Chris Freeman PhD, BEng, BSc, CEng, FIET

Professor

Research interests

  • Iterative learning and repetitive control theory and their experimental application to industrial systems and biomedical engineering
  • Biomechanics 
  • Motor learning and control

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chris

Email: cf@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3486

Dr Dan Burns

Senior Enterprise Fellow
Connect with Dan

Email: d.burns@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8866

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