Team

Paul is Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and has extensive experience supporting PhD students across disciplines. A bioscientist by training, his research integrates advanced molecular imaging and multi-omics analysis.

Greg is Director of QMUL Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI) and Academic Liaison to The Alan Turing Institute. He is a computer scientist, with extensive industrial experience (Huawei, Siemens, Medicsight) and academic expertise in ML and deep learning for biomedical image analysis.

Jamie is an expert in transcriptomics, spatial omics, and translational medicine. He leads QMUL’s Merscope Ultra spatial omics platform and has over 15 years’ experience in data-rich bioinformatics approaches. He has served in leading roles in pharmaceutical R&D, is a former Professor in Human Physiology (10yr), and is affiliated with both DERI and The Alan Turing Institute.

Francesca is Lead of the Centre for Cancer Evolution at Barts Cancer Institute and Co-Lead of the Spatial Biology Hub at QMUL. She has pioneered the use of spatially resolved approaches based on both high-dimensional proteomics and transcriptomics to interrogate cell-cell communications.

Ginestra is an internationally recognised expert in network science, complex systems and AI, having made foundational contributions to the mathematical modelling of multilayer and higher-order networks, with particular relevance to spatial data integration and systems biology.

Inês leads the Spatial Biology Hub at QMUL and coordinates the Oral and Craniofacial Bionetwork of the Human Cell Atlas. With a strong background stem cell biology and tissue regeneration, her research integrates advanced imaging and computational modelling to study cellular dynamics in health and disease.

Cédric’s research focuses on computer vision for high-dimensional images, including generative AI for scientific images. He will bring to the team 20 years of experience dealing with multimodal data ranging from tabular data, high-dimensional images, and unstructured data

Cleo is Director of the QMUL Phenotypic Screening Facility which supports interdisciplinary high content imaging, multiplex, multiomics spatial microscopy and phenomics based research at scale. She has >20 years experience in fundamental discovery science leveraging spatial and genome-wide technologies.

David is the Director of Ethics and Responsible Innovation Research at The Alan Turing Institute and Professor of Ethics, Technology and Society at QMUL. David is the author of the UK Government’s official guidance on the responsible design and implementation of AI systems in the public sector.

Zion is a biomedical engineer with expertise in AI-driven imaging, robotics, and medical device innovation, he leads interdisciplinary research at the interface of engineering and life sciences.

Ahmed’s research expertise is in distributed systems, large-scale ML, cloud computing and computer networks. He is the PI on the EPSRC KUber project.

Saqi’s research interests include innovation management, digital transformations, dynamic capabilities and strategic alignment.

Stuart works with multi-omic data including spatial technologies to study the development of premalignant disease into cancer.

Himadri is an expert in multiscale synchrotron X-ray imaging of biological tissues. He has over 20 years of experience in developing quantitative techniques to map out spatial nanostructure and nanomechanics of hierarchical biological materials.

Jun’s research lies in developing and applying bioinformatics and computational approaches to analyse large-scale multimodal data to uncover molecular insights in normal and disease tissue.