Supervisory network

Our supervisory network is made up of over 110 academics from 14 Departments, Faculties and Schools with a very wide range of specialisms united by an interest in Digital Health and Care. Students are expected to have supervisors from both the health sciences and engineering/technology. Please note it is not necessary to contact potential supervisors before applying for the CDT programme: students assemble their supervisory team during their first taught year as their project ideas develop.

Bristol Medical School

Name	Job title	Expertise
Dr Charlotte Archer	Senior Research Associate in Primary Care Mental Health	Mental health, remote consulting, digital technology for therapy.
Prof Yoav Ben-Shlomo	Professor of Clinical Epidemiology	Neurodegenerative disorders
Dr Lucy Biddle	Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology	Suicide prevention, mental health
Prof Ashley Blom	Head of School	Musculoskeletal research and orthopaedics
Dr Helen Bould	Consultant Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Eating disorders, child and adolescent mental health, experimental psychology
Dr Liz Coulthard	Associate Professor in Dementia Neurology	Behavioural Genetics; Mental Health
Prof Esther Crawley	Professor of Child Health	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Child Health
Dr Oliver Davis	Reader in Statistical Genertics	Genetic and environmental data science
Dr James Dodd	Consultant Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine	Respiratory medicine
Prof Tom Gaunt	Professor of Health and Biomedical Informatics	Molecular genetics and bioinformatics
Prof Rachael Gooberman-Hill	Professor of Health and Anthropology, Head of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute	Social anthropology, osteoarthritis
Dr Philip Harfield	Research Fellow	Health data
Prof Alastair Hay	Professor of Primary Care	Primary Care; Antimicrobial Resistance; Self Care; Antibiotics
Dr Emily Henderson	Consultant Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine	ageing and neurodegeneration
Prof Jeremy Horwood	Associate Professor in Social Sciences and Health	Experience of health and health services and acceptability of interventions
Prof Richard Huxtable	Professor of Medical Ethics and Law	Ethics in medicine
Professor Carol Joinson	Professor in Developmental Psychology	Mental health/child development
Professor David Kessler	Professor of Primary Care	Mental Health
Professor Kathreena Kurian	Professor of Neuropathology	Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer
Dr Fiona Lithander	Honorary Senior Research Fellow	Nutrition science
Prof John Macleod	Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Primary Care	Health inequality and primary care
Prof Richard Martin	Professor of Clinical Epidemiology	Prostate Cancer, Breastfeeding, unexpected beneficial and adverse effects of commonly prescribed drugs
Dr Louise Millard	Research Fellow	Health data epidemiology
Dr Micheal O'Bresail	Senior Research Associate	Pregnancy and bone density
Dr Harry Rolinski	Academic Clinical Lecture in Stroke Neurology	Parkinson's disease, REM sleep behaviour disorder, Neuroimaging
Dr Anya Skatova	Research Fellow	Transaction data for population health
Prof Jonathan Sterne	Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology	Medical statistics and epidemiology; HIV; Asthma and allergic diseases
Prof Graham Stuart	Honorary Associate Professor in Sports and Exercise Cardiology	Physical Activity, Cardiology
Dr Sarah Sullivan	Deputy Chief Operating Officer at ALSPAC	Mental Health and Psychosis
Prof Kate Tilling	Professor of Medical Statistics	Medical Statistics
Prof Nicholas Timpson	Professor of Genetic Epidemiology	Genetic epidemiology
Prof Jon Tobias	Consultant Senior Lecturer	Rhuematology
Prof Kate Whittington	Professor of Health Sciences Education	Translational Health Sciences
Dr Alan Whone	Consultant Senior Lecturer in Movement Disorder	Movement Disorders

Bristol Veterinary School

Name	Job title	Expertise
Dr Ranjeet Bhamber	Senior Resarch Associate	Accelerometers, mass spectometry
Prof Andrew Dowsey	Chair in Population Health Data Science	Population Health Data Science; Quantitative omics; Sensing; Imaging
Dr John Fennell	Lecturer in Animal Sensing and Biometrics	Automatic disease detection and monitoring in calves
Dr Laszlo Talas	Lecturer in Animal Sensing and Biometrics	Zoology/experimental psychology/computer vision

Centre for Digital Health

Name	Job title	Expertise
Dr Amberly Brigden	Lecturer	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Child Health
Dr Erin Dooley	Lecturer	Responsible Innovation, Disability, STEM Engagement
Dr Hanna Kristiina Isotalus	Lecturer	Neuroimaging of memory, healthy ageing and dementia
Dr Alessandro Masullo	Lecturer	Computer Vision for Digital Health

Department of Computer Science

Name	Job title	Expertise
Dr Laurence Aitchson	Lecturer	Machine learning and computational neuroscience
Professor Dima Damen	Professor of Computer Vision	Computer vision
Dr Jon Bird	Senior Lecturer	Digital Health Engineering
Dr Nikolai Bode	Lecturer	Machine learning/AI
Professor Seth Bullock	Toshiba Chair in Data Science and Simultation	Complex system simulation
Dr Tilo Burghardt	Senior Lecturer	Computer vision
Prof Kirsten Cater	Education Director for PGT and Associate Dean, Department of Computer Science	Healthy Ageing, VR
Prof Peter Flach	Professor of Artifical Intelligence	Machine Learning, data science, Human-centred Artificial Intelligence
Dr Conor Houghton	Reader in Computationial Neuroscience	Computational Neuroscience
Dr Paul Marshall	Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction	Human-Computer Interaction
Dr Ryan McConville	Lecturer in data science, machine learning and AI	Data science, machine learning, AI
Dr Oussama Metatla	Senior Lecturer	HCI
Prof Majid Mirmehdi	Professor of Computer Vision	Computer vision
Prof Ian Nabney	Professor	Machine learning/AI
Dr Aisling Ann O'Kane	Senior Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction and Head of Computer Science	Design for Health/HCI
Dr Rui Ponte Costa	Lecturer in Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning	Neuroscience, modelling and machine learning
Professor Chris Priest	Professor of Sustainability and Computer Systems	Behaviour change
Dr Anne Roudaut	Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction	Human-Computer Interaction
Dr Daniel Schien	Senior Lecturer in Computer Science	Energy efficient software systems

Department of Engineering Mathematics

Title	Job title	Expertise
Dr Zahraa Abdallah	Lecturer	Machine Learning
Prof Ian Craddock	University Lead in Digital Health	Digital health
Dr Brittany Davidson	Honorary Lecturer	Online behaviour, statistics, machine learning
Dr Mohammad Golbabaee	Senior Lecturer in Data Science	Machine learning, imagine, biomedical sensors
Dr George Oikonomou	Senior Lecturer in IoT	Embedded systems
Prof Rob Piechcoki	Professor of Wireless Systems	Wireless communications
Prof Bernard Stark	Professor of Electrical Engineering	Lower power electronics
Dr Paul Warr	Senior Lecturer	Software (Reconfigurable) Radio and diversity-exploiting communication systems
Dr Colin Campbell	Reader in Mathematics for Information Technology	AI, machine learning
Dr Hermes Gadelha	Senior Lecturer in Mathematical and Data Modelling	modelling biological and physical systems
Dr Sabine Hauert	Associate Professor in Swarm Engineering	Crowd sourcing/AI
Professor Weiru Liu	Professor	Machine learning/AI
Dr Lucia Marucci	Associate Professor in Systems and Synthetic Biology	Systems and sythetic biology
Dr Chris McWilliams	Research Fellow	Data driven approaches to improving intensive care practice.
Prof Anthony Mulholland	Professor	Applied mathermatics, ultrasonic devices
Prof Jonathan Rossiter	Professor of Robotics	Soft robotics
Dr Raul Santos-Rodriguez	Associate Professor of Data Science and Intelligent Systems	Machine learning/AI

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Name	Job title	Expertise
Dr Fengyuan Liu	Lecturer	3D/4D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Biomanufacturing
Dr Antonia Tzemanaki	Lecturer in Robotics	Dexterous Manipulation and Wearable Robotics

NHS Honorary Academics

Title	Job title	Expertise
Dr Philip Hamann	Honorary Lecturer/ Consultant	Rhuematology
Mr Jonathan Aning	Honorary Lecturer/Consultant Urological Surgeon	Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer
Dr Chris Bordeaux	Honorary Lecturer/ICU Consultant	ICU
Mr Joe Philip	Honorary Senior Lecturer/ Consultant Urological Surgeon	Urology
Dr Richard Scott	Consultant Clinical Scientist	Medical Physics & Bioengineering services

School for Policy Studies

Title	Job title	Expertise
Dr Miranda Armstrong	Senior Lecturer in Physical Activity in Adults	Physical activity epidemiology
Prof Ashley Cooper	Emeritus Professor	Physical Activity, Public Health
Prof Charlie Foster	Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health	Physical Activity, Public Health
Prof Pauline Heslop	Professor of Intellectual Disabilities Studies	Intellectual Disabilities studies
Prof Russ Jago	Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health	Children and adolescents' physical activity; designing and evaluating complex interventions
Dr Laura Johnson	Associate Professor in Nutrition	Public Health Nutrition
Dr Patricia Lucas	Reader, Child Health Research	Child health
Professor Angie Page	Emeritus Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health	Physcial activity and Nutrition
Dr Angeliki Papadaki	Senior Lecturer in Nutrition	Nutrition Interventions, Dietary Behaviour Change
Dr Demi Patsios	Senior Lecturer	Ageing populations
Prof Karen West	Professor of Social Policy and Ageing	Healthy Ageing

School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Name	Job title	Expertise
Prof Rafael Carazo Salas	Chair in Biomedical Science	Quantitative stem cell biology, biological Big Data and machine learning/AI
Prof Eugenia Piddini	Professorial Research Fellow in Cell Biology	Cancer cells

School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience

Title	Job title	Expertise
Prof Matt Jones	Professorial Research Fellow in Neuroscience	Sleep
Dr Angus Nightingale	Clincial Senior Lecturer in Cardiology	Dementia, Stroke and Cardiovascular Disease
Prof Alastair Poole	Professor of Pharmacology and Cell Biology	Pharmacology

School of Psychological Science

Name	Job title	Expertise
Dr Angela Attwood	Associate Professor	Addiction
Prof Iain Gilchrist	Head of School	Decision making, human foraging
Prof Claire Haworth	Professor of Behavioural Genetics	Behavioural Genetics; Mental Health
Prof Christopher Jarrold	Professor of Cognitive Development	Cognitive development
Dr Olivia Maynard	Lecturer in Experimental Psychology	Healthy behaviour change; smoking; alochol use
Prof Marcus Munafo	Professor of Biological Psychology	Mental health
Prof Ian Penton-Voak	Professor of Evolutionary Psychology	Cognition and perception
Dr Andy Skinner	Research Fellow	Brain, behaviours, health
Prof Lucy Yardley	Professor	Digital behaviour change

Bristol Digital Futures Institute

Name	Job title	Expertise
Professor Susan Halford	Head of Bristol Digital Futures Institute	Organisational sociology

Bristol Law School

Name	Job title	Expertise
Prof John Coggon	Chair in Law	Public and Global Health Ethics and Law, and Mental Capacity Law
Prof Morag McDermont	Professor of Socio-Legal Studies	Housing Law & Policy; Administrative Law; Regulation and Risk; Social Theory
Dr Oliver Quick	Reader in Law	Patient safety
Prof Keith Syrett	Professor of Health Law and Policy	Public law and the rationing of scarce health care resources

School of Education

Name	Job title	Expertise
Dr Frances Knight	Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education	Paediatric sleep
Dr Helen Manchester	Reader in Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures	Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures

School of Management

Name	Job title	Expertise
Prof Gianluca Veronesi	Professor of Public Management and Accounting	Healthcare Management
Dr Roberta Bernardi	Senior Lecturer in Management	Digital Health
Dr Nikolaos Stylos	Senior Lecturer in Marketing	Marketing