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- Visiting ProfessorSchool of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine
- Joint Faculty, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute- Director, Cenre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, Wellcome Genome Campus. - Honorary Scientist - University of Cambridge NHS Trust
Our focus is on applied genomic epidemiology and the use and development of translational bioinformatic web/mobile applications for public health, evolutionary and population biology of micro-organisms using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS).
RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS - Imperial College
Corin Yeats - Lead Computational Biologist (Wellcome funded)Artemij Fedosejev - Lead JavaScript Engineer (Wellcome funded)Mirko Menegazzo - Lead EpiCollect Developer (EU funded)Derek Huntley - Software Developer (Wellcome funded)
RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS - Sanger InstituteCorinna Glasner - Post-doctoral FellowSilvia Argimon - Genomic EpidemiologistStephen Reece - Project ManagerDavid Garcia - Java DeveloperRichard Goater - JavaScript/Node Developer
Associated Developments EpiCollect (www.epicollect.net) is a generic mobile data gathering tool providing a web application for the generation of forms and freely hosted project websites (using Google's AppEngine) for many kinds of mobile data collection projects.
Data can be collected using multiple mobile phones running either the Android Operating system or the iPhone (using the EpiCollect mobile app) and all data can be synchronised from the phones and viewed centrally (using Google Maps) via the Project website or directly on the phones.
We have produced EpiCollect to be as simple and generic as possible to allow groups / individuals / orgainsations to get up and running with data gathering as quickly and easily as possible. Projects people have set up range from simple surveys of wildlife and plants, through archaelogical dig sites and street art locations to the use by international organisations such as the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) , or for the tracking of animal and human pathogens in Africa ,for Widespread vaccination campaigns (eg Rabies in India ) and for tracking EBOLA in Liberia.
PLoS publication | BBC News | BBC World Podcast
CITIZEN SCIENCE We are part of the EU funded Citizen Cyberlab project aimed at building digital tools and online collaborative platforms for Citizen Science and education, and striving to enhance the opportunities for learning and creativity available to Citizens world wide.
The Consortium Team consists of seven partners: the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR/UNOSAT), University College London (UCL), Université de Genève (UNIGE), Université Paris Descartes (UPD), The Mobile Collective (TMC) and Imperial College London
The BURST algorithm, developed by Ed Feil, has been developed into a JAVA WebStart application (Derek Huntley) and built and integrated with mlst datasets into the website.The BURST algorithm first identifies mutually exclusive groups of related genotypes in the population (typically a multilocus sequence typing [MLST] database), and attempts to identify the founding genotype (sequence type or ST) of each group. The algorithm then predicts the descent from the predicted founding genotype to the other genotypes in the group, displaying the output as a radial diagram, centred on the predicted founding genotype. The procedure was developed for use with the data produced by MLST (STs and their allelic profiles) but can be used with some other molecular typing methods that define isolates as strings of integers.
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In collaboration with James Abbott at the Bioinformatics Support Service, Imperial College London
WebACT provides a database of sequence comparisons between all publicly available prokaryotic genome sequences, allowing the on-line visualisation of comparisons between up to five genomic sequences, using the Artemis Comparison Tool (ACT) developed by the Sanger Institute.
Sequence comparisons can also be generated 'on the fly' for up to five user-entered sequences, by either uploading sequences, or querying public databases using sequence identifiers (GenBank or RefSeq).
All pre-computed and user-generated comparisons can be viewed on-line using a webstart version of ACT or can be downloaded. Reference 1 | Reference 2Neisseria gonorrhoeae multi-antigen Sequence typing.The two-locus NG-MAST procedure has been developed for the characterisation of isolates of N. gonorrhoeae, the causative bacterium of gonorrhoea. See Martin et al.(2004)Reference 1 | Reference 2Spatialepidemiology.net provides a map-based interface for the display and analysis of infectious disease epidemiological data, including molecular data, utilising Google Maps and Google Earth. MLST databases have been made available to view geographically.I have also been working in collaboration with Stephen Bentley at the Sanger Institute and Prof. Peter Reeves of the University of Sydney on the genetic analysis of the capsular biosynthetic loci (cps) from 90 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae.Reference1 | Reference 2 | Reference 3- Faculty of Medicine
- Visiting Professor
Fields of Research- Research Postgraduate
- Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine
- Research PostgraduateDepartment of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine
I am currently a PhD candidate in Dr Jia Li’s lab, fascinated by the intricate world of the microbiota and its profound impact on health and disease. Having completed my MRes in Biomedical Research in the Microbiome in Health and Disease stream, I have developed a keen interest in understanding the metabolic functions of the gut microbiota in disease development. During my PhD studies, I am dedicated to expanding my expertise in host-microbiota modelling, metabolomics and bioinformatics.
My PhD research is centred on investigating the intricate interplay between dietary components and microbial/host metabolites, as well as their impact on gut health and immunity. Using models of intestinal inflammation induced by opportunistic pathogens and colorectal cancer, my aim is to elucidate links between diet and host-microbiota metabolic interactions in the onset and development of inflammation and gastrointestinal disease.
As a foundation, my research relies on the application of 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) for metabolic profiling of biofluids, serving as an initial step to explore the functional responses of the host and microbiota to dietary interventions and disease initiation. Additionally, I aim to explore changes to gut bacterial composition, histological changes to gut tissue and transcriptional changes in proteins associated with gut barrier function to integrate my research findings in a multi-disciplinary approach.
Furthermore, I am also involved in research investigating the impact of antibiotics on gut bacterial composition and metabolic function. Specifically, I am interested in the dynamics of the temporospatial changes that ensue following antibiotic exposure along the gastrointestinal tract.- Faculty of Medicine
- Research Postgraduate
Fields of Research- Emeritus Professor in Financial Econometrics
- Department of Finance - Business School
- Emeritus Professor in Financial EconometricsDepartment of Finance - Business School
Karim Abadir is Emeritus Professor of Financial Econometrics at the Business School (Chair of Financial Econometrics 2005-2017). He was in charge of recruiting from March 2006 and Group Head from July 2007 until Sept 2008. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University. His MA (Economics) and BA (Major in Economics, Minor in Business) are from the American University in Cairo. He went to school at the Collège de la Sainte Famille (Jésuites) in Cairo. He has worked as:
1988-92: Lecturer in Economics, Lincoln College, Oxford University.
1992-93: Research Fellow in Economics, American University in Cairo.
1993: Professional diver, Sinai, Egypt.
1993-94: Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Econometrics, University of Exeter.
1994-96: Reader in Econometrics, University of Exeter.
1996-2005: Professor of Econometrics and Statistics (Chair equally split between the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Economics & Related Studies) and Head of the Statistics Group, University of York.
He serves on various editorial boards and was a founding co-editor of the Econometrics Journal. He is credited with having solved in his DPhil a major long-standing problem in Mathematical Statistics and Time Series that was open since the 1950's (the explicit formulae for the distributions of unit-root statistics). New economic models and dynamics, obtained in his publications, led him to predict:
- the timing of the 2008 recession a year in advance, and the different timings of the recoveries in various Western countries (see * below);
- the stagflation of 2021-2022, its seeds in June 2019 on Twitter then in an article invited in summer 2021 in International Banker;
- impending recession in March 2022 on Twitter then, with Prof Gabriel Talmain, summary of forecasts and another warning about central banks' overshooting, both in International Banker.
- the inflation resurgence of early 2025, resulting initially from the increasingly expanding US fiscal-deficit rate, expansion that delayed the US recession in 2023-2024 (after the US technical recession of 2022); see Twitter/X links in the side panel on the left (PC version) or globe icon on the top right (mobile version).
*Earlier references:
- Recession? What Recession?!
(Done on the 7th of March 2008 for the alumni magazine.)
Then:
- A predictable recession, and what to do about it.
- Is the economic crisis over (and out)?
(Used GIPSI instead of PIIGS, since the start of the crisis, and the sequencing turned out to be more accurate.)
- LSE blog: Triple-dip, coming to a town near you...
- Deficit cuts should be postponed (on Swiss financial TV Dukascopy) & subsequent Expert Commentary.
- 2015 Summary on CNBC's Power Lunch and SABC news.
(Regular updates on Twitter/X and LinkedIn.)
Founding member of the liberal party Al Masreyeen Al Ahrrar (translates as Free/Liberal Egyptians), which has been granted Observer (2012) then Full (2014) Membership of Liberal International. Member of its first Political Office (2011-2013) and first Supreme Council (2013-2017). Drafted its economic programme in April 2011 (prior to its launch) and Chair of its Economics Committee September 2011 to March 2013. Chair of the Data Analysis and Information Committee 2011-2012.
Further details are in various editions of Who's Who in the World, Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge Blue Book. Doctors may be interested in the work of his grandfather, Naguib Pasha Mahfouz.- Business School
- Emeritus Professor in Financial Econometrics
Fields of Research- Associate Professor in Endocrinology
- Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine
- Associate Professor in EndocrinologyDepartment of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Medicine
- Associate Professor in Endocrinology
Fields of Research- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- Department of Infectious Disease - Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Clinical Senior LecturerDepartment of Infectious Disease - Faculty of Medicine
Dr Aula Abbara is a consultant in Infectious Diseases/ General Internal Medicine at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College. She teaches and supervises students on the Global Health BSc course at Imperial College and the TMIH at LSHTM.
She has volunteered in different humanitarian and refugee settings including direct clinical work, teaching healthcare workers and building capacity. Since 2012, this has been predominantly with Syrian non-governmental organisations. Between 2016 and 2018, she led a project for SAMS Hellas which provided over 30,000 primary healthcare consultations for refugees in Greece and received a Women in Global Health Award at the World Health Assembly for this. Other humanitarian work includes refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria (pre-conflict), the Rohingya crisis and in Sierra Leone with MDM for the ebola response in 2015 (for which she received an Ebola Medal of Service.)
She co-chairs the Syria Public Health Network a group which brings together academics, NGOs, policy makers and international organisations to highlight and influence policies relevant to the public health of Syrians. She chairs Health Professionals for Global Health and has been a collaborator on the Lancet Commission on Syria.
She has consulted for a number of international organisations; recent examples include: for UN ESCWA for the NAFS program on the future of Syria's health system (2020;) for Lebanon Support on the 'Right to Health' in Lebanon and in Jordan (2020;) for Primary Care International for a project with WHO EURO to provide training and support around COVID-19 for doctors in northwest Syria (2020.) She was on the expert advisory group for WHO Global Code of Practice on the Ethical Recruitment of Healthworker Migration (2020) and is on the Advisory Group for WHO on the development of Global Competency Standards for health workers on Refugee and Migrant health (2021.)
Her research interests include attacks on healthcare, AMR in conflict, refugee healthcare workers and, more broadly relating to global and humanitarian health. Current research projects include an MRC grant on Health Systems Research on health system governance in Syria, an R2HC grant on the Public Health impact of Attacks on Healthcare and a collaboration on AMR in conflict.
In February 2020, she received an Emerging Alumni Leaders Award from Imperial College, London.- Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Fields of Research- Casual Teaching Support
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- Casual Teaching SupportDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
Farwa is a postdoctoral researcher working at the intersection of cognitive and computational neuroscience and healthcare technologies. Her research interests span biomedical and statistical signal processing, convex optimization, machine learning, and deep learning, with a particular focus on interpretable AI for clinical translation. Through this work, she aims to develop healthcare solutions that are trustworthy, usable, and impactful in real-world settings. She completed her doctoral studies in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, where she worked under the supervision of Dr. Wei Dai in the Communications and Signal Processing Research Group. Her doctoral research focused on advanced signal processing models and learning-based methods for biomedical applications.
Beyond research, Farwa is deeply passionate about science communication, education, and advocating for underrepresented voices in science. She is strongly committed to closing the gender gap in STEM and believes that early exposure to science, particularly for young girls, can be transformative. Through teaching, outreach, and public engagement, she aims to make science more inclusive, engaging, and empowering, while contributing meaningful, data-driven innovations and helping shape a more equitable and diverse scientific community.
- Faculty of Engineering
- Casual Teaching Support
Fields of Research- Honorary Clinical Research Fellow
- School of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Clinical Research FellowSchool of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine
I am a visiting researcher at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.
I have a background as a medical doctor trained in general internal medicine and infectious diseases, and have been working in the Infection Control Programme of the Geneva University Hospitals (Switzerland) since 2015.
My research interests are hospital-acquired infections, in particular surgical site infections, bloodstream infections, and more recently, hospital outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2.
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Publons
Orcid
Geneva University Hospitals (French)- Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Clinical Research Fellow
Fields of Research- Research Assistant in next-generation contrail modelling
- Department of Aeronautics - Faculty of Engineering
- Research Assistant in next-generation contrail modellingDepartment of Aeronautics - Faculty of Engineering
I am a Postdoc researcher within the AEIS group, where my work focuses on the intersection of atmospheric science and high-performance computing (HPC).Currently, my work is dedicated to developing efficient and scalable Lagrangian models of the atmosphere and contrails (SCALE: a System for Contrail Analysis in Lagrangian Environments). By designing models specifically optimized for HPC environments, I provide the computational tools necessary to understand the interplay between contrails and cirrus clouds, and mitigate the environmental impact of aviation at scale.- Faculty of Engineering
- Research Assistant in next-generation contrail mod
- Research Assistant
- School of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine
- Research AssistantSchool of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Medicine
- Research Assistant
- MSCA E4F Individual Fellow
- Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- MSCA E4F Individual FellowDepartment of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Faculty of Natural Sciences
- MSCA E4F Individual Fellow
- Honorary Research Fellow
- National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Research FellowNational Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Research Fellow
Fields of Research- Casual - Student demonstrator - lower rate
- Department of Materials - Faculty of Engineering
- Casual - Student demonstrator - lower rateDepartment of Materials - Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Engineering
- Casual - Student demonstrator - lower rate
- Research Postgraduate
- Department of Computing - Faculty of Engineering
- Research PostgraduateDepartment of Computing - Faculty of Engineering
I am a PhD student at Imperial College London and a member of the NetSys Lab, supervised by Dr. Hamed Haddadi and Dr. Marios Kogias. My research centers on building trustworthy, scalable, and efficient systems for agentic and machine learning workloads. You can find my publications on Google Scholar. I am always happy to discuss potential collaborations, feel free to reach out.
- Faculty of Engineering
- Research Postgraduate
- Research Postgraduate
- Department of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- Research PostgraduateDepartment of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
Abu Taher Muhammad Abdullah is a Superintendent of Police at Bangladesh Police. He completed his MA in Criminology from the University of Nottingham, UK. During his police service, he earned Masters in Police Science as a professional degree. He completed his undergrad and masters in forestry.
Supervisors
Dr. Yves Plancherel (main supervisor), Lecturer, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
Dr.John Hassard, Professor, Department of Physics & Institute of Security Science, Imperial College London
Research Interest
His current research interests are climate change, security, forecasting and modeling, and the relationship between climate change and crime patterns. Cybercrime and clonal propagation were his earlier research focus.
Fellowship and Scholarship
Fellow, Science and Technology Fellowship, the Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
Scholarship from 'Strengthening Government through Capacity Development of the BCS Cadre Officials Project', the Ministry of Public Administration, Bangladesh
Publications
Abdullah, A.T.M., Hossain, M.A. & Bhuiyan, M.K. Clonal propagation of guava (Psidium guajava Linn.) by stem cutting from mature stockplants. J. of For. Res. 17, 301–304 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-006-0069-2
Abdullah, A. T. M., Hossain, M. A., & Bhuiyan, M. K. (2005). Propagation of Latkan (Baccaurea sapida Muell. Arg.) by mature stem cutting. Research Journal of Biological Sciences, 1(2), 129-134.
Abdullah, A.T.M. 2020. What are the Police Responses to Severity of Cybercrime for Victim's Safety and Security? Global Scientific Journal, 8(4):428-443.
Jahan, I. and Abdullah, A.T.M.2020.Representation of Rohingya Crisis in BBC and Al Jazeera online news. Global Scientific Journal,8(4);1230-1248.
Abdullah, A.T.M. and Jahan, I. 2020. Causes of Cybercrime Victimization: A Systematic Literature Review. International Journal of Research and Review,7(5):89-98.
Abu Taher Muhammad Abdullah, Israt Jahan “Challenges of Cyber Policing in Response of Cybercrime to Reduce Victimization” International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) vol.4 issue 5, pp.219-226 May 2020 URL: https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/Digital-Library/volume-4-issue-5/219-226.pdf
Abdullah, A.T.M. 2020. Climate Change and COVID-19: Is there any link for the worldwide pandemic condition? Global Scientific Journal, 8(8):2886-2905.
Abu Taher Muhammad Abdullah, Israt Jahan “COVID-19, Climate Change and Challenges: Bangladesh Perspective to Fight against the Pandemic Condition International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) volume 4 issue 10, pp.111-125 October 2020 URL: https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/Digital-Library/volume-4-issue-10/111-125.pdf- Faculty of Engineering
- Research Postgraduate
- iCARE Programme Manager
- Department of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
- iCARE Programme ManagerDepartment of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
Yusuf is a Programme Manager with over 10 years of experience in the NHS, specialising in patient-centred care and research evaluation. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London’s Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine where he focused on risk stratification for cardiac surgery patients and enhancing post-surgical recovery.
Key Expertise
• Clinical Research: Extensive background in Clinical Medicine Research, Clinical Governance, Infection Prevention and Control, and Outcomes Assessment, with a keen interest in Real-World Evidence and Translational Analytics.
• Leadership in Research Projects: Currently leads a diverse portfolio of iCARE projects across the Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC), and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT).
• Health Outcomes Specialist: Conducted significant research on patient safety and experiences, focusing on patient-reported and clinician-reported outcomes. Co-produced with patients, lay partners and commissioners.
• National Projects Contributions: Contributed to the implementation of WHO safe surgery protocols and refined health outcomes datasets for national audits in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons, National Cardiac Benchmarking Collaborative, Pan London Surgical Pathways, and the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Education & Mentorship: An Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), Yusuf contributed to the skills development of students and staff at Imperial College London and ICHNT.
• Project Management: Successfully led cross-functional teams in delivering complex projects at the trust level, holds Lean Black Belt, showcasing strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
Yusuf's dedication to advancing patient care through innovative research and effective leadership continues to make a significant impact on healthcare practices in the UK.- Faculty of Medicine
- iCARE Programme Manager
Fields of Research- Honorary Research Associate
- National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Research AssociateNational Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Research Associate
Fields of Research- Emeritus Professor of Urology
- Department of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
- Emeritus Professor of UrologyDepartment of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
Professor and Honorary Consultant in Urology. Qualifications include MB ChB LIverpool 1977, ChM Liverpool 1987, FRCS Edinburgh 1980, FRCS London 1981.
Reserach interests include
Sex hormones for advanced prostate cancer; PI for CR-UK funded MRC CTU supported randomised phase II clinical trial comparing LHRH agonists with transdermal oestrogens
High intensity focused ultrasound HIFU); Spinout company Acublate (with CR-UK(T), IC, ICHNHST), patented technology for increased speed and accuracy of totally non-invasive ablation currently being interfaced with imaging and undergoing in vitro and ex vivo testing prior to human clinical trials.
Sex hormones and realtionship to cognitive impairment, bone densityand body odour.
Collaborators include
MRC CTU
Prof P Price
Prof B Puri
Dr R Abel
Prof Jeff Hand
Dr Rob Dickinson
Dr R Gale
Member of editorial boards include computer aided surgery & biomed central (urology).
Member of ICH tissue bank committee.
Teaching:
Undergraduate lead for 3rd year urology at IC
Oversea final year shadowing for final year students, second year students and postgraduate entry programme students
Postgraduate; 2 MSc students (Biomarkers, HIFU)
3 PhD students (HIFU, contrast enhanced heptaic perfusion index, sex hormones)- Faculty of Medicine
- Emeritus Professor of Urology
Fields of Research- Associate Professor in Musculoskeletal Sciences
- Department of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
- Associate Professor in Musculoskeletal SciencesDepartment of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
PI in the Musculoskeletal laboratory, (MSK Lab)
Research Interests
Bone health and ageing
Bone metrics for clinical decision-making
Environmental pollution and bone disease
Listen to an interview with Richie about his research on the BoneUp podcast (August 2023).
Biography
Dr Abel is a PI in the Musculoskeletal laboratory (MSk) where he leads the Bone Health Research Group supervising a multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical scientists. Richie has authored more than 60 journal articles and book chapters, that have been cited over 2700 times (H-Index 31). Richie is the co-creator and co-host of the BoneUp podcast which aims to empower people living with bone disease and their families. The podcast received the 2022 Neil Mackenzie Public Engagement Award from the Bone Research Society.
Richie’s research pursues the evidence base for healthcare and environmental policy. His primary goals are to discover the mechanisms behind the remarkable mechanical properties of bone and better understand how ageing and environmental factors, like environmental pollution, modulate the response to mechanical loading, predisposing bones to osteoporotic fracture from the molecular scale up. Then apply the knowledge and evidence base to improve policy, diagnostics, and interventions for bone disease.
His technical innovations have resulted in new methods for studying tissue and organ mechanics from the molecular scale-up. His work included introducing synchrotron imaging methods to bone health research in humans. He combines synchrotron X-ray imaging techniques with microscopy and atomistic molecular dynamic modelling to determine the molecular and nanoscale mechanisms responsible for altering higher-scale mechanical properties in bone. Riche applies the methods to study the mechanisms underlying the effects of ageing and the environment on bone health and disease.
Richie is translating the research by testing the application of bone health measures for clinical decision-making in surgery of the hip and spine. His work also includes the introduction of novel diagnostic and screening technologies in healthcare to improve the identification and treatment of osteoporosis. Richie works with companies developing healthcare technologies (e.g., X-ray and ultrasound) by supporting the design and delivery of preclinical and clinical trials. Richie also studies the natural history of bone stress injuries in dancers (ballet and contemporary) to improve the health and well-being of dancers and develop decision-making around ceasing and then returning to play.
Richie is a JBMR Plus Editorial Board (2022-2024) and has served on numerous committees and working groups supporting research and translation including the Royal Osteoporosis Society (Cure Advisory Group, Technology Academy), The Diamond Light (K11 DIAD beamline), the British Orthopaedic Society (Secretary). He chaired the organising committee of the British Orthopaedic Society (2018) and sits on the Royal Osteoporosis Society Conference Committee (2023).
Richie is well-known for his research investigating why some people age healthily whilst others sustain osteoporotic fractures. Their milestone papers are published in Scientific Reports (, ) and were featured on BBC Radio, ToDay programme 1/3/2017, Inside Health programme 14/3/2017, Guardian 13/3/2017, and Daily Mail 27/8/20. The work provided unique insight as it addressed bone mechanics at a near-molecular scale enabled by synchrotron diffraction experiments. The group is one of only a handful worldwide with demonstrated expertise to carry out these unique experiments. Publishing an invited review on the clinical importance of molecular bone mechanics in Current Osteoporosis Reports ().
This research was funded by The Royal Osteoporosis Society, the Wellcome Trust Accelerator Award, and donations from Michael Uren Foundation and The Doctor Mortimer & Teresa Sackler Foundation. Engagement and collaboration were supported by the MIT-Imperial College London (MISTI) Seed Fund and the Institute of Molecular Science (IMSE) seed award.
BoneUp Podcast
Richie Abel and David Armstrong created the award-winning podcast about bone. You can listen almost anywhere:
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Read more about us and see some photos on the Faculty outreach page.
The MSk lab is always accepting volunteers and new members for our Bone Patient Involvement Group to be informed of upcoming research, events and trials.- Faculty of Medicine
- Associate Professor in Musculoskeletal Sciences
Fields of Research- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Clinical Senior LecturerDepartment of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Fields of Research- Professor of Practice (Risk Management)
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- Professor of Practice (Risk Management)Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
RISK MANAGEMENT AND RESILIENCE
Professor Atula Abeysekera (HonFREng) is the Professor of Practice in Risk Management at Imperial College and is a member of the Court at Imperial. Atula is a leading specialist in risk management, governance, stakeholder management and resilience. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2024.
He is frequently consulted by government departments and academic institutions for his advice to help growth strategies. Atula has over 40 years’ experience and expertise in systems risk management with global financial and engineering institutions. He teaches civil engineering students at Imperial and is the first Professor of Practice in the department’s 145-year history.
He focuses on high-quality teaching and research programmes relating to one or more of these aspects of infrastructure risk. His particular interest is in the practical understanding of managing extreme risks and developing resilience programmes using systems risk management techniques.
He is a member of the Industry Steering Group for the UK Government specialising in risk and safety to drive forward the building safety programme recommended by Dame Hackitt following the Grenfell tragedy. He advised the UK Cabinet Office on improvements to risk culture and resilience.
He has over 40 years of commercial experience at civil engineering (Mott MacDonald) and blue chip financial institutions (Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Lazard, Cazenove and Schroders).
He was the Chairman of the Risk Forum Committee of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments from 2005 to 2015 and created and trained a global network of over 1000 risk officers. Between 2007 to 2018, Atula served as a Non-Executive Director at the Institution of Civil Engineers (Thomas Telford Ltd).
He is a Chartered Civil Engineer (Institution of Civil Engineers, UK) and a Chartered Accountant (Institute of Chartered Accountants, England & Wales). He has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London and Fellowship of the City and Guilds Institute. He is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers.
He is a graduate of the Department of Civil Engineering at Imperial College London and a past President of the City and Guilds College Association ('CGCA'), which is the Alumnus Association of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London. He is a visiting professor at Universidad de Navarra, Spain and a member of the advisory committee of the School of Economics and Business.
Professor Abeysekera is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation at the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London.
In recognition of his commitment to young people, teaching and mentoring, in 2017 Atula was awarded a Fellowship by the City & Guilds Institute by the HRH Princess Royal.
His passion outside work is cricket, and he is a member of the MCC. He is author of the book “What’s the small idea” (http://www.small-idea.co.uk/)
BOOKS
Abeysekera, A. (2015). What’s the small idea? - Innovation and Risk Culture in Government.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Whats-small-idea-Innovation-Government/dp/1514875462/
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Author of the policy paper ‘Black Swans means business’ which shows how unknown-unknown’ risks impact national security. The paper was republished by a think tank and professional journals.
Abeysekera, A. (2013). Black Swans means business: The Institution of Engineering and Technology: Infrastructure Risk and Resilience: Transportation
Abeysekera, A. (2012). Taming the Beast: The continuity insurance & risk: http://www.cirmagazine.com/DigitalEditions/october/CIR-october2012.pdf
Author of the policy paper ‘Mind the Gap: Funding for UK’s Flood Defences’. The paper recommends innovative financial structures required to off load flood defence assets from the Government’s Balance Sheet to the Private Sector. The paper was republished by a think tank.
Mind the Gap – Funding for UK’s Flood Defences: The Bow Group:
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES1) Expert Insight into SAGE Composition - Stakeholder Management - Lecture to UK's Government Office for Science on behalf of the Royal Academy of Engineering - July 2025
2) Managing Black Swan Risks, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka - May 2024
3) Engineering a Better Word, Inaugural professorial lecture at Imperial College - Dec 2022
4) Hazards31 - Institute of Chemical Engineering - Keeping Risk in Perspective: Learning to Manage Black Swan Risks - November 2021
5) Worshipful Company of International Bankers, Managing Black Swans - May 2021
6) Confederation of British Industry (CBI), - Keeping Risk in Perspective: Learning to Manage Black Swan Risks - May 2021
7) Chartered Bankers and Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, Keeping Risk in Perspective: Learning to Manage Black Swan Risks - May 2021
8) Friends of Imperial College - Learning to Manage Black Swan Risks - April 2021
9) City and Guilds College Association, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College: Prof Atula Abeysekera was elected President of the City & Guilds College Association in June 2020. At the Annual General Meeting, Prof Abeysekera delivered a speech on Managing Black Swans.
10) Click here for the transcript, it gives Prof Abeysekera's thoughts on how to manage and tame Black Swan events. https://www.small-idea.co.uk/black-swans/- Faculty of Engineering
- Professor of Practice (Risk Management)
- Professor
- Department of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
- ProfessorDepartment of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
Eric Aboagye is Professor of Cancer Pharmacology & Molecular Imaging and Director of the CRUK-EPSRC-MRC-NIHR Comprehensive Cancer Imaging Centre. He joined the college after a PhD at the CRUK Beatson Laboratories in Glasgow, UK and post-doc fellowship at The Johns Hopkins University & Hospital in Baltimore, USA. His group is interested in the discovery and development of new methods for experimental and clinical cancer molecular imaging. In the past 5 years, the team has invented and translated three novel cancer diagnostics into human application. He has acted as an advisor to GE-Healthcare, GSK, Roche and Novartis.
Professor Aboagye was recipient of the 2009 Sir Mackenzie Davidson Medal and was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2010. Academy Fellows are elected for outstanding contributions to the advancement of medical science, for innovative application of scientific knowledge or for conspicuous service to healthcare.- Faculty of Medicine
- Professor
Fields of Research- Honorary Senior Research Fellow
- National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Senior Research FellowNational Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Abraham is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine. She undertook her medical training in London, Oxford and Cambridge. She was a Clinical Lecturer at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and undertook her PhD, as a Wellcome Clinical Training Fellow, examining the effect of glucocorticoids on pro-inflammatory intracellular signalling. Her novel finding was that a Dual Specificity Phosphatase (DUSP1) renders partial glucocorticoid resistance (J Exp Med 2006).
Research interests and responsibilities
Basic Science interests include intracellular signalling regulation, post-transcriptional regulation and RNA stability.
She is lead for clinical trials in inflammatory arthritis and north-west London CLRN Rheumatology lead. Nationally, she is the CCRN musculoskeletal industry liaison lead.
With her interest in translational and experimental medicine, she is developing a biomarker/imaging and drug discovery programme in Psoriatic arthritis (Psa)and Psoriasis (Pso) with Professor Dorian Haskard. Additionally, she is keen to identify molecular effects of biologics in inflammatory arthritides including Psa, ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis with an aim to understanding the biology of these diseases in relation to phenotype and disease activity.
Education interests and responsibilities
Dr. Abraham has successfully co-supervised MD and clinical PhD students in experimental translational inflammatory arthritis. These students presented their work at international meetings and have been awarded prestigious prizes.
She is the Rheumatology academic clinical fellow (ACF) lead at Imperial and successfully facilitated the creation of the first ACF in London. She is also Lead for Undergraduate Year 5 Rheumatology education at Imperial and an Arthritis Research UK student mentor.
She has been awarded grants from STeLi for "Patient-centric Education" and "Joint examination and injection simulation education".
Additionally, she is engaged in a number of Public and Patient engagement initiatives to help understanding the needs and value of biomedical research.
Dr. Abraham is committed to nurturing and supporting future academic rheumatologists and training future clinical rheumatologists to help lead/support clinical research.- Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Fields of Research- Teaching Fellow in Applied Machine Learning
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- Teaching Fellow in Applied Machine LearningDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
Abdalrahman M. Abu Ebayyeh is currently working as a Teaching Fellow in Applied Machine Learning at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Imperial College London. He joined the department in June 2022.
Previously, he had worked as Laboratory Technologist and teaching assistant in higher education institutes in the UAE. He was responsible on teaching several courses such as MATLAB, Statics, Vibrations, C Programming, Pneumatics and Hydraulics and CAD/CAM. Furthermore, he was supervising the labs and preparing the practical experiments for the students for the Electromechanical Engineering subjects. He was also assigned to train local students to participate in Emirates Skills competition under the Mobile Robotics Category, where they learned how to program the robot using LabView and MyRio kit.
Dr. Abu Ebayyeh received the BSc degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan in 2013. He received the MSc degree in Aerospace Engineering with Distinction from Queen Mary University of London in 2015. He also received a PhD in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Brunel University London in 2022, where his research focused on the application of deep learning and computer vision in industrial automation. During his PhD, he worked on a funded EU Horizon project called iQonic that deals with identifying defects in optoelectronic wafers in different laser industries across Europe. He used many machine vision techniques such as image processing, deep learning (CNNs, CapsNet and convolutional autoencoders) to identify the defects in the wafers. His solutions are implemented and published in several journal articles. As a PhD student in Brunel, he worked as graduate teaching assistant (GTA) in the departments of Electronic and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. He mainly assisted in teaching the Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning modules.
Dr. Abu Ebayyeh holds the Associate Fellowship in Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) since October 2020. His current research interests include machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, industrial automation, and robotics.- Faculty of Engineering
- Teaching Fellow in Applied Machine Learning
Fields of Research- Research Postgraduate
- National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Research PostgraduateNational Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Medicine
- Research Postgraduate
- Clinical Research Fellow
- Department of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
- Clinical Research FellowDepartment of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
I am a surgical trainee with a decade of experience in surgery. My subspecialty interest lies in upper gastrointestinal cancer surgery, where I have honed my skills and knowledge. Throughout my career, I have actively engaged in research, leading several projects and contributing to advancing surgical knowledge through numerous publications. My commitment to research is driven by a desire to improve surgical outcomes and innovate within my field.
In addition to my clinical and research endeavors, I am passionate about teaching. I have been involved in mentoring and educating junior trainees, helping to shape the next generation of surgeons. My dedication to education is reflected in my active participation in various teaching programs and initiatives.
I have played a pivotal role in establishing a global surgical society for upper gastrointestinal surgery. This society aims to foster collaboration, share knowledge, and advance the field on an international scale.- Faculty of Medicine
- Clinical Research Fellow