Speakers

Dr. Anna Barnes, King's College London, UK

Dr Anna Barnes is an HCPC registered Clinical Scientist specialising in radiology physics. She is currently the director of King’s College Technology Evaluation Centre (KiTEC) a health technology assessment group that specialises in the evaluation of AI tools for healthcare. She is also the joint Head of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation in London.

Emma Ford, Coaching4careers, UK

Emma works as an independent coach and facilitator in the area of personal, leadership and career development. Prior to this she worked in the Energy Industry for 16 years, latterly managing Graduate Selection in Europe for a multinational organisation, the tools and processes she developed were shared as best practice for experienced and MBA hire globally.

She has developed and delivered leadership and career management programmes and experiential skills workshops including team working, networking, presentations, careers, leadership of self and others. She coaches and works with globally based clients who work across the sectors. Her work includes designing and delivering workshops for PhD scientists at the Helmholtz Association in Germany.

Philip Marsden, Magnetic Shields Limited, UK

Phil Marsden received his PhD in 2001 from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton for work on electron spin relaxation in III-V semiconductors. His core interests lie in imaging and sensing, and their critical environments, specialising in the creation, design and application of physics and electronics to a range of industries from healthcare to heavy industry; from quantum technologies to nuclear decommissioning. Phil has been in the commercial world since 2005, initially developing imagers for the motion picture industry and subsequently in MedTech, most recently moving into high-precision sensing and shielding environments at Magnetic Shields Limited (MSL) in Staplehurst (Kent). He has expertise is the design of medical devices and medical device subsystems in regulated environments. Phil is currently the Research and Development Manager at MSL, leading a team of physicists and electronics engineers to design the next generation of active shielding devices for industry, medicine and academic research.

Ashley Tyler, Cera Magnetics, UK

Ashley completed an MSci in Physics at the University of Nottingham before continuing there for a PhD focused on quantum sensing with nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond. After further developing this work as a postdoctoral researcher, they moved into industry and is now the R&D Lead at Cerca Magnetics Limited, a University of Nottingham spin-out company commercialising OPM-MEG neuroimaging technology.