Experts Directory
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Dr Afshin Shahi
Associate Professor in Middle East Politics and International Relations
Expertise: Climate change and conflict, sectarianism and political Islam
Dr Andrew Daly-Smith
Reader in Healthy Children
Expertise: Childhood, physical activity, health in children
Dr Beth Fylan
Associate Professor in Patient Safety
Expertise: Patient Safety, medicines optimisation
Dr Giorgia Previdoli
Honorary Visiting Researcher, Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research
Expertise: Medicines management for older people, intervention co-design, patient and public involvement in healthcare research
Dr Jacobo Elies Gomez
Assistant Professor in Pharmacology
Expertise: Pharmacology/Physiology, cardiovascular disease, skin diseases
Dr Jo Buckberry
Reader in Biological Anthropology
Expertise: Human osteology, paleopathology, trauma analysis, early medieval, medieval and post-medieval funerary archaeology
Dr Julia Beaumont
Lecturer in Biological Anthropology
Expertise: Teeth, dental development, isotopes, palaeodiet, forensic dentistry, collagen, neonatal, maternal health
Dr Kamran Mahroof
Associate Professor in Supply Chain Analytics
Expertise: AI, data analytics, supply chain, business intelligence
Dr Kirsten Riches-Suman
Associate Professor Biomedical Science
Expertise: Cardiovascular health, Type 2 diabetes
Dr Mansour Youseffi
Lecturer in Biomaterials, Department of Biomedical and Electronics Engineering
Expertise: Biomaterials, rehabilitation and prosthetics, medical electronic devices
Dr Mohammed Qasim
Visiting Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences
Expertise: Gang culture, race, identity, structural racism, inequality, deprivation, Bradford riots
Dr Simon Tweddell
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice
Expertise: Education research, Team-based learning
Dr Viktor Doychinov
Lecturer in Electronics and Software Engineering, Bradford-Renduchintala Centre for Space AI
Expertise: Wireless communications, wireless electronics, satellite communications, wearable and implantable tech
Professor Paul Rogers
Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies
Expertise: Changing causes of international conflict, Terrorism and political violence, Environmental conflict, Middle East security, Arms control and disarmament, Middle East; Persian Gulf
Mr Jamie Beck
Lecturer in School of Allied Health Professions and Sport
Expertise: Education, trauma, forensic science, sports medicine
Professor Amir Sharif
Dean of the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences and Professor of Circular Economy
Expertise: Food security, food-energy-water nexus, circular economy, humanitarian logistics, management programmes, supply chain management, operations management, project management, leadership causal mapping, systems thinking, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, leadership development, global education.
Professor Andrew Wilson
Chair in Forensic & Archaeological Sciences
Expertise: Biological Anthropology, archaeological human remains, ancient keratin remains, Mummy Studies, mummified human/faunal remains
Professor Anne Graham
Head of School of Chemistry & Biosciences
Expertise: Inflammation, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, endothelial cells, cell signalling, MAP kinase, angiogenesis, microRNA
Professor Brendan Barrett
Professor of Visual Development
Expertise: Amblyopia, vision and sport, vision and reading
Professor Chris Gaffney
Pro Vice-Chancellor-Research/Innovation
Expertise: archaeology, 3D visualisation and spatial analysis of data,geophysics, remote sensing
Professor Christoph Bluth
Professor of International Relations and Security
Expertise: International security, nuclear weapons policies, weapons of mass destruction.
Professor Claudia Trillo
Professor of Architecture
Expertise: Architecture, sustainability, housing, heritage
Professor Daniel Neagu
Professor of Computing
Expertise: Artificial intelligence, toxicology, software engineering, online social networks, data quality, big data, healthcare
Professor Professor Diana Anderson
Professor of Biomedical Science and Established Chair
Expertise: cancer, oxygen radicals, human biomonitoring, unbalanced precursor pools, dietary imbalance, male-mediated developmental defects, nanotoxicology, general toxicology
Professor Edward Mallen
Head of Bradford School of Optometry and Vision Science
Expertise: refractive error, accommodation control, neural adaptation to blur, adaptive optics
Professor Fiona Macaulay
Professor in Peace Studies and International Development
Expertise: Brazil, criminal justice systems, prisons, human rights, feminicide, police and politics, gender-based violence, police reform, police training, women in politics, Brazilian politics
Professor Gregory Watts
Professor of Environmental Acoustics
Expertise: sustainable environments, environmental engineering, road traffic noise, traffic, urban and rural open spaces, tranquillity
Professor Hassan Ugail
Director of Centre for Visual Computing, Faculty of Engineering and Informatics
Expertise: Ageing facial images, computer-based physical analysis, facial recognition
Professor Jan Oyebode
Professor of Dementia Care
Expertise: Dementia, end of life care, impact on families.
Professor Klaus Pors
Professor of Chemical Biology
Expertise: Anti-cancer agents, cancer prodrugs, cancer research, drug discovery, stem cells, medicinal chemistry
Professor Liz Breen
Director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone
Expertise: Supply chains, logistics and operational management (especially relating to Covid/Brexit), medicine optimisation, digital innovation, patient safety, process analysis and risk management.
Professor Marcus Rattray
Professor of Pharmacology
Expertise: Neuroprotection, astrocytes, addiction, motor neurone disease, pharmacology
Professor Owen Greene
Professor of International Security and Development
Expertise: non-proliferation and disarmament, regional security, conflict prevention, climate change, ozone depletion, sea pollution, Europe, East Asia, West Africa, South Asia
Professor Paul Loadman
Professor of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism at the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics
Expertise: Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism in Cancer
Professor Prathivadi Anand
Head of Peace Studies and International Development
Expertise: environmental economics, sustainable human development, right to water, institutional economics, governance, accountability, China, India
Professor Peter Gardner
Professor of Healthcare, Quality and Security
Expertise: Healthcare safety, patient safety, E-health, health technology
Professor Peter Mitchell
Head of School for Social Sciences
Expertise: Psychology, person perception, developmental disorders, autism
Professor Rachel Pilling
Professor of Opthalmology
Expertise: Opthalmology, learning disability eyecare
Professor Sherif El-Khamisy
Director of Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, Associate Dean Research and Innovation
Expertise: Cancer, DNA healing, DNA ageing, chromosomal single strand break repair
Professor Stephen Rimmer
Head of School of Chemistry and Biosciences, and Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: Polymers, Biomaterials, Radical Polymerisation, Cationic Polymerisation, Polyurethanes, Emulsion Polymerisation, Smart Polymers, Anti-microbial agents, Tissue Engineering, Drug delivery
Professor Udy Archibong
Pro Vice-Chancellor Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Expertise: equality, inclusion, diversity
Professor Vincent Gaffney
Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology
Expertise: Stonehenge, Durrington Walls, Doggerland, landscape archaeology, archaeological geographic information systems, prehistoric archaeology, Croatian archaeology, Roman archaeology, digital heritage
Professor Zahir Irani
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic, Innovation and Quality)
Expertise: Management Decision Making, Leadership, Food Security and electronic Government, student engagement, employability, enhancement