Welcoming Four New Members to the MaThRad Research Team

We are thrilled to announce the addition of four new Post Doctoral researchers to the MaThRad team. 

Maria Laura Pérez Lara joins the Warwick team. Maria has previously been working on assessment of alternative radiation therapy methods (proton beam therapy and boron neutron capture therapy) with semiconductor detectors. Maria has broader research interests in data science, medical physics, experimental particle physics and education. She is experienced in X-ray imaging with Medipix detectors, Monte Carlo simulations and data processing.

Poppy Nikou joins the UCLH team. Poppy completed her PhD at the Centre of Medical Imaging Computing (CMIC), UCL. Her research focused on modelling anatomical changes of H&N cancer patients during fractionated radiotherapy treatment. Poppy has broader research interests within radiotherapy, medical imaging and machine learning. Prior to completing her PhD, she did an MPhys in Physics at Manchester Univeristy  and an MRes in medical imaging at UCL.

Matthew Southerby also joins the UCLH team. Matthew completed his PhD in accelerator physics at the uUiversity of Lancaster and the Cockcroft Institute concerning the design of a linac booster for proton radiotherapy applications. He did a brief postdoc in accelerator physics, also at Lancaster, before moving to UCLH. 

Esmae Woods has joined the team at Cambridge. Esmae’s PhD project focused on the development of state reduction techniques for Markov Chains, to help understand dynamical processes within large ill-conditioned systems. Esmae will be helping to further develop SCONE (Stochastic Calculator Of the Neutron transport Equation).