People
Professor Reza Razavi is the Director of the Centre for Medical Engineering. He also has a wider research strategy role as Vice-President & Vice-Principal (Research) at King’s College London, and as Director of Research at King’s Health Partners. Until recently he was also head of the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, leading the transformation from 20 to over 400 active researchers in this now world class centre for medical imaging research.
The main focus of Professor Razavi’s research is imaging and biomedical engineering related to cardiovascular disease. This includes cardiac MRI, particularly in relation to congenital heart disease, electrophysiology, heart failure and image guided intervention. His group was the first to perform MRI guided cardiac catheterisation in patients and more recently the first to carry out entirely MR guided cardiovascular interventions. In congenital heart disease, he has developed techniques for 3D imaging and physiological assessment using flow measurements. Using MR guided cardiac catheterisation he has developed new techniques of measuring pulmonary vascular resistance and compliance. He is also working with computational imaging and modelling colleagues to build in-silico models for better understanding of pathophysiology of disease and personalisation of therapy.
Below is a list of our Principal Investigators who lead their own research groups. We also have support staff in administration, data management and public engagement.
Principal Investigators
René Botnar Cardiovascular Imaging, Co-Director
Alexander Hammers Imaging and Neuroscience,
Co-Director/Public Engagement Lead
Seb Ourselin Interventional Engineering Lead
Phil Blower Imaging Chemistry Lead
Jo Hajnal Physics & Engineering Lead
Julia Schnabel Computing Science Co-Lead
Marc Modat Computing Science Co-Lead
Vicky Goh Cancer Clinical Co-Lead
Gary Cook Cancer Clinical Co-Lead
Sven Plein Cardiovascular Clinical Co-Lead
Amedeo Chiribiri Cardiovascular Clinical Co-Lead
Steve Williams Neurology Clinical Co-Lead
David Edwards Neurology Clinical Co-Lead
Gareth Barker Magnetic Resonance Physics
Serena Counsell Perinatal Imaging & Health
Tony Gee PET Chemistry
Steve Niederer Cardiac Modelling
Andrew Reader Imaging Science
Kawal Rhode Biomedical Engineering
Mary Rutherford Perinatal Imaging
Ralph Sinkus Biomedical Engineering
Federico Turkheimer Neuroimaging Analysis
Tom Vercauteren Interventional Image Computing
Rob Leech Neuroimaging Analytics
Our Research Support
Shalini Jadeja Centre Manager
Laurence Blight Research Administrator
Candice Middleton Research & Innovation Manager
Quality Management System
Clare Heaysman Quality Systems Manager
Jacqueline Beddoe Rosendo Senior Quality and Regulatory Engineer
Ethics/ Governance
TBC Clinical Study Coordinator
Aoife Ruane Bioresource Manager
Health Tech Assessment
Mariusz Grzeda Medical Statistician
Yael Rodriguez Health Economist
Public Engagement
Alice Taylor-Gee Public Engagement Manager
Mel Bovis Operations Officer- Public Engagement
Our Research staff
Chemistry
Julia Blower Molecular Imaging Lead
Salvatore Bongarzone Translational Radiochemist
Maggie Cooper Translational RadioPharmacist
Maria Serrano Navacerrada RA in Radiopharmacology
Engineering
Felipe Godinez Parallel Transmit Engineer
Steven Ogier Ultra Highfield MR Engineer
Jan Sedlacik MR Engineer coil building
Computing
Eric Kerfoot Software Architect