The Team
James Choi
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
j.choi@imperial.ac.uk
+44 (0)2075 941 777
Awards
2022 Frederic Lizzi Award
2011 Frederick V Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Acoustics
Education
2010 PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
2006 MS, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
2004 BSE, Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
Appointments
2018 – present, Senior Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
2013 – 2018 Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
2010 – 2013 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford
2011 – 2012 Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Acoustics
Shusei Kawara
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
1st supervisor: Dr. Sam Au
Appointments
2025 – present, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
Education
2025 PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London
2020 MRes, Bioengineering, Imperial College London
2019 B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Japan
Rui Xu
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Appointments
2025 – present, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2021 – 2025 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Biomedical Ultrasound, University College London, UK
Education
2021 PhD, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto & Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada
2016 BSc, Physics and Biophysics (Integrated Science), McMaster University, Canada
Ines Isabel De Figueiredo
Postdoctoral Research Associate
1st supervisor: Dr. Sam, Au (Department of Bioengineering)
i.defigueiredogoncalves@imperial.ac.uk
Appointments
2025 – present, Postdoc, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
Education
2021 PhD, Chemistry, Paris-Saclay Univerisity, France
2018 MSc, Bioengineering & Nanosystems, Higher Technical Institute, Portugal
2014 BSc, Biotechnology, Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
William Lim Kee Chang
PhD Student, CDT in Medical Imaging
2nd supervisor: Prof. Nicholas Long (Department of Chemistry)
william.lim-kee-chang15@imperial.ac.uk
Education
2020 - present, PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2020 MSci, Chemistry, Imperial College London, UK
Grainne Geoghegan
PhD Student, President’s Scholar
1st supervisor: Prof. Magdalena Sastre (Department of Brain Sciences)
grainne.geoghegan19@imperial.ac.uk
Education
2022 - present PhD, Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, UK
2020 MSc Translational Neuroscience, Imperial College London, UK
2019 BSc Biomedical, Health and Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Ireland
Afraa Alzoubi
PhD Student
afraa.alzoubi21@imperial.ac.uk
Education
2023 - present PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2022 MSc, Genes, Drugs and Stem Cells-Novel Therapies, Imperial College London, UK
2018 BSc, Pharmaceutical Sciences, King Saud University, KSA
Anthea MacIntosh -LaRocque
PhD Student
2nd supervisor: Dr Kirsten Christensen-Jeffries (King’s College London)
anthea.macintosh-larocque18@imperial.ac.uk
Education
2023 - present, PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2023 MSci, Physics, Imperial College London, UK
Callum Tilbury
PhD Student
Education
2025 — present, PhD Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2022 MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, UK
2020 BSc(Eng) Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Appointments
2024 – 2025 Senior Research Engineer, Oxa Autonomy, London, UK
2023 – 2024 Research Engineer, InstaDeep Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa
Shima Mohammed
PhD Student
shima.mohammed21@imperial.ac.uk
Education
2025 – present, PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2021 – 2025, MSci Physics, Imperial College London with a Year Abroad in Utrecht University
Yicheng Hu
PhD student
Education
2025 – present, PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2022 – 2023 MRes, Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention, Imperial College London, UK
2017 – 2021 BSc, Automation, Shanghai University, China
William Lee
PhD Student
1st supervisor: Andriy Kozlov
Education
2025 - present, PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2025 MSc, Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, TW
2023 BSc, Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Science, National Tsing Hua University, TW
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Our Funders
Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Alzheimer's Research UK
Medical Research Council
Royal Society
Action Against Cancer
Wellcome Trust
Michael Uren Foundation
Alumni
Dr. Antonios Pouliopoulos
(former PhD student)
a.pouliopoulos13@imperial.ac.uk
Current Placement
2021-present, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), King’s College London
2019-2021 Post-doc, Columbia University
Education
2013-2017 PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London
2013 MSc, Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine, University College London
2011 BSc, Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Javier Cudeiro
(former MRes student & research assistant)
Education
2015-2016 MRes, Medical Device Design and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College London, UK
2014 Consultant Engineer, Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Group FENNSI, Spain
2010 BEng, Biomedical Engineering (Spec. Tissue Engineering), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Ahmed El Ghamrawy
(former PhD student)
a.el-ghamrawy14@imperial.ac.uk
Education
2014-present PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2013 MSc, Electrical Engineering - Biomedical Imaging Group, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
2010 BSc, Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar
Gerard Hernández Mir
(former Post-Doc)
g.hernandez-mir@imperial.ac.uk
Education
2017 PhD, Immunology (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Graduate Program), University of Pittsburgh, USA
2010 MSc, Molecular Biotechnology, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2009 MSc, Biochemistry, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2009 BSc + MSc, Biology (Specialization: Clinical Biology), Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Tiffany Chan
(former MRes/PhD student)
1st supervisor: Prof. Ramon Vilar (Chemistry)
Education
2015-present MRes/PhD, Neurotechnology, Imperial College London, UK
2015-MSci, Chemistry, Imperial College London, UK
Dr. Sophie Morse
(former MRes/PhD Student & ESPRC Doctoral Prize Research Fellow)
Education
2020-2021 EPSRC Doctoral Prize Research Fellow
2015-2020 MRes/PhD, King's College London and Imperial College London, UK
2015 MEng, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2014 BEng, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
Matthew Copping
(Former MRes/PhD Student)
2nd supervisor: Dr. Magdalena Sastre (Medicine)
Education
2016-present MRes/PhD, Neurotechnology, Imperial College London, UK
2016 MPhys, Physics, Cardiff University, UK
James Bezer
(former MRes/PhD student)
2nd supervisor: Dr. Robert Eckersley (King's College London)
3rd supervisor: Dr. Valeria Garbin (Chemical Engineering)
Education
2017-present MRes/PhD Medical Imaging, King's College London and Imperial College London, UK
2016 MSci Physics, Imperial College London, UK
Zheng Jiang
(former PhD student)
2nd supervisor: Dr. Robert Dickinson
Education
2018-present PhD, Imperial College London, UK
2018 MS, Mechanical Design and Theory, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
2015 BS, Aircraft Airworthiness Technology (Aircraft Design and Engineering), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Krit Sujarittam
(former PhD student)
krit.sujarittam17@imperial.ac.uk
Education
2018-present PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2018 MSc, Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2016 BEng, Mechanical Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Dani Chattenton
(former PhD student, Imperial-ICR CRUK Centre of Excellence)
2nd supervisor: Prof. Gail ter Haar (Institute of Cancer Research)
3rd supervisor: Prof. Simon Robinson (Institute of Cancer Research)
4th supervisor: Prof. Chris Jones (Institute of Cancer Research)
Education
2018-present PhD, Bioengineering and cancer, Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London, UK
2018 MSc, Radiation Biology and Oncology, University of Oxford, UK
2017 BA, Biological Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
Betul Ilbilgi Yildiz
(former PhD Student)
2nd supervisor: Dr. Robert Dickinson
b.ilbilgi-yildiz18@imperial.ac.uk
Education
2019-present PhD, Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
2017 MSc, Electrical Engineering , University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA
2013 BSc, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Pamukkale University, Denizli, TURKEY
Jiho Kim
(former MRes in Bioengineering student)
Education
2016 - 2022 BSc, Biomedical Engineering, Dongguk University, South Korea
Jacques Blagburn
(former MRes Student and Research Assistant)
Education
2023-2024 MRes in Medical Device, Design, and Entrpreneurship (MDDE)
2019-2022, Medical Sciences and Engineering BSc at University College London (UCL)