{"id":10,"date":"2017-04-03T16:39:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonsforlife\/?p=10"},"modified":"2017-04-27T10:21:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T09:21:32","slug":"starting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonsforlife\/2017\/04\/03\/starting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a newly appointed lecturer in applied optics<\/a> (physics) at the School of Physical Sciences<\/a> at the University of Kent. In my research I develop ways of using light in biology and medicine, to help us understand, diagnose and treat disease. I\u2019ll be using this blog to keep anyone who is interested updated on my work, and the work of the research team that I will be building over the next few years. This isn\u2019t aimed exclusively at academics, everything should be understandable regardless of your background, but if anything isn\u2019t clear or you want to know more, please get in touch. I also occasionally write a blog on biophotonics, where I discuss some of the latest developments in the field, you can read that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before moving to Kent I was a postdoc for five years at Imperial College London. I worked in a multi-disciplinary group called the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery<\/a>. It meant that I was rubbing shoulders with engineers, computer scientists, chemists and clinicians, as well as the odd physicist.\u00a0 Working there taught me one thing above all else \u2013 that the problems of the real world don\u2019t respect academic boundaries. If we want to try to solve some of them then we need to pool our expertise and resources and \u2013 the hardest part \u2013 try to understand each other\u2019s language and culture. So, with that in mind, I\u2019m always keen to\u00a0meet<\/a> people outside of optics and physics, whether you be a biologist, a medical professional, a patient or anyone else who might be interested, to talk about what it is that I do, what it is that you, and how we might be able to work together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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