Professor Rebecca Shipley

Becky Shipley is Professor of Healthcare Engineering at UCL, and Director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering. Her research interests lie in mathematical and computational modelling in medicine and biology with an emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches which integrate data from biological experiments, medical imaging and patients. Becky works in application areas spanning cancer, tissue engineering and human physiology. In 2017 she co-founded the UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering, which brings together physical, engineering, life and clinical scientists to tackle nerve injury repair. Her research has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize 2016 for research at the interface of mathematics, computer science and medicine.