About

At WEISS, engineers, clinicians and computer scientists work together to develop technologies that enable safer and more effective treatments for patients across a wide range of conditions.

We specialise in the fields of surgical and interventional sciences. This means either surgery, being operations where surgeons need to make some kind of cut, or incision to the patient, and interventions being cases where it’s able to do this without so.

We intend for these to underpin the next generation of medicine across a wide range of applications, making life-changing treatments safer and more accessible for patients.

Our Centre is based at Charles Bell House, a building that brings together researchers from departments within the Faculty of Engineering, such as The Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, and places them alongside clinical researchers from the Faculty of Medical Sciences and divisions such as the Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences.

This close, interdisciplinary integration allows clinicians to feed in their experiences to inform the direction and design of research, creating engineering solutions with the applications firmly in mind. It helps us ensure that innovation is always directed towards patient benefit.

Mock operating theatre with surgical equipment in it

People

Co-Investigators

Danail Stoyanov: Director
Laurence Lovat: Clinical Director
Dimitris Siasakos: Deputy Clinical Director
Hani Marcus: Deputy Director for Translation
Matt Clarkson: Deputy Director for Teaching and Learning
Evangelos Mazomenos: Deputy Director for Public Engagement
Erwin Alles
Stavroula Balabani
Steve Bandula
Sophia Bano
Dean Barratt
Paul Beard
Nadia Berthouze
Axel Bex
Martin Birchall
Ann Blandford
Rob Brownstone
Robert Bradford
Manish Chand
Enrico Costanza
Anna David
Brian Davidson
Paolo De Coppi
Jan Deprest
Vanessa Diaz
Neil Dorward
John Duncan
Malcolm Finlay
Stefano Giuliani
George Hamilton
Alister Hart
Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam
Yipeng Hu
John Kelly
Neil Kitchen
Rui Loureiro
Jamie McClelland
Andrew McEvoy
Caroline Moore
Clement Orczyk
Anne Schilder
Ed Seward
Rebecca Shipley
Agostino Stilli
Manish Tiwari
Francisco Vasconcelos
Roser Vega

Principal Research Fellow

Catarina Isabel Correia Veloso Da Veiga
Elly Martin

Senior Clinical Fellows

Riaz Hassan Y Asaria
Reza Motallebzadeh
Abhiney Jain
George Saleh
Maxine Tran

Senior Research Fellows

Thomas Allen
Rehman Ansari
Ester Bonmati Coll
Richard Colchester
Eddie Edwards
Nam Huynh
Mobarakol Islam
Mike Shaw
Anjana Wijekoon
Edward Zhang

Research Fellows

Omer Ahmad
Simrandeep Bahal
John Charles Bason Mitchell
Christopher Bendkowski
Razvan Caramalau
Vijai Anand Dharmalingam
Rohit Gupta
Charlotte Hagen
Abbas Heydari
Baoru Huang
Prasenjit Kabi
Ashish Kalkal
Loic Lerville-Rouyer
Priya Mandal
Efthymios Maneas
Zhehua Mao
Semyon Bodian
Laurent Mennillo
Jeremy Opie
Ranjana Rai
Joao Ramalhinho
Shaheer Saeed
Nikolaos Salaris
Vikaramjeet Singh
Peter Snow
Yipei Wang
Hannah Warren
Miguel Xochicale
Rui Xu
Wen Yan
Shaoyan Zhang
Shuai Zhang
Jiaqi Zhu

Clinical Training Fellows and Clinical Research Fellows

James Booker
Jamie Brannigan
Ollie Burton
Musa China
Joe Davidson
Emre Doganay
Andreas Fontalis
Gemma Humm
Mohamed Hussein
Rawen Kader
Danyal Khan
Olayinka Kowobari
Hugo Layard Horsfall
Jigi Moudgil-Joshi
Francesco Magni
Nicola Newall
Jack Penn
Laura Privitera
Joseph Shehata
Siddharth Sinha
Joachim Starup-Hansen
George Richardson
Alexandra Valetopoulou
Simon Williams
Paul Wolfson

PhD and MRes Students