Insigneo ECR Career Development Seminars

For this ECR career development seminar, we had two speakers:

Prof. Martyn Paley, who currently is an Emerituso Professor of BioMedical Imaging (MR Physics) in Academic Radiology, University of Sheffield. Martyn has been involved in studying and researching Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy (MRI/S) since 1973. He joined the University of Sheffield in 1997 and has been involved in setting up Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy (MRI/S) research in a wide range of topics from advanced functional MRI to neonatal and in-utero imaging and hyperpolarised gas and fluid enhanced MRI/S.

Dr Jake Salmonsmith, who currently works as a Knowledge Exchange manager for the Faculty of Science at the University of Sheffield, which involves connecting researchers and academics at the university with non-academic organisations. He has moved to Sheffield, which is where he became involved with Insigneo and has worked on the fluid dynamics of the blood flow through brain aneurysms.

For this ECR career development seminar, we had two speakers:

Dr Andrii Grytsan, who works within Technical Sales at COMSOL, taking care of academic customers in Sweden. In 2017, Andrii did a postdoc at Insigneo, with focus on developing a course for the new masters programme.

Dr Tim Ingham-Dempster, who did a PhD simulating pre-cancerous mutations of cells in the colon at Insigneo between 2014 and 2018. He is currently a Principal Developer at HBK leading a team creating engineering simulation software.

For this ECR career development seminar, we had two speakers:

Dr Alex Wilkinson is Insigneo Commercialisation Manager at the University of Sheffield. Prior to joining the University, he worked with the NIHR in Research Design Services, and has a variety of expertise in project management both with and for industry.

Dr Bart van Veen is Senior Researcher at Impact Institute, which helps organisations manage and improve their impact. He completed his PhD in biomechanics with Insigneo at the University of Sheffield.

For this ECR career development seminar, we had two speakers:

Dr Cécile Perrault is Head of Innovation & Partnerships at Alice & Bob, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Sheffield. She obtained her PhD at the University of Florida in Biomedical Engineering and has since held posts at McGill University, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the European Commission, among others.

Dr Luke Boldock is currently based at the UK Space Agency, after having worked for several years at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Prior to that, he completed his PhD and postdoc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

For this ECR career development seminar, we had two speakers:

Dr Jan Wolber is Head of Technology Leader Group at GE Healthcare, and has an Honorary Professorship with the University of Sheffield. He did his PhD at the Institute of Cancer Research and since 2000 has been working in the Medical device industry.

Dr Erica Montefiori is Senior Statistical Officer at the UK Civil Service (Home Office), where she has been for 2 years. Prior to that, she completed a PhD at the University of Sheffield and a subsequent Research Associate position with Insigneo.

For the first ECR career development seminar, we had two speakers:

Professor Gwendolen Reilly is Professor of Musculoskeletal Bioengineering at the University of Sheffield, where she has been since 2004 having undertaken a PhD at the University of York, and several postdoctoral positions in the USA and Switzerland.

Dr Iain Hannah is Senior Manager in Engineering at Adidas Innovation, where he has been since undertaking a postdoctoral research position at the University of Sheffield (he is an Insigneo alumni), and before that a PhD at Loughborough University.