Muscu­los­ke­le­tal Diseases Research Community Seminar Series

I’m delighted to invite you to join our upcoming Musculoskeletal Diseases Research Community Seminar Series, which will take place on Thursday, April 10, 2025 from 15-16 in Melania building, seminar room ME300 and online. 

Our special guest, Prof. Hamid Dehghani from the University of Birmingham, UK will be presenting the opponent's seminar:

“Applications of Diffuse Optics for Detection and Characterization of Disease”

BIO

Dr. Hamid Dehghani is the Professor of Medical Imaging in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK and leads the ‘Perception, Language and Action’ research Theme which includes the ‘Medical Imaging Laboratory’. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal papers in the area of image reconstruction and numerical modelling and has a long and established track record in the development of biophotonics-based techniques with specific applications in in-vivo optical imaging. He is the core developer of NIRFAST, a modelling and computational toolbox for molecular optical imaging, which is an open-source software widely available to the international research community. He was the first to publish the use of diffuse optics for the formation of 3D functional images of breast cancer, luminescence-based imaging for monitoring of cancer treatment, inflammation in arthritic finger joints for personalised treatment and 3D whole head functional maps of brain activity. 

He has supervised over 30 PhD students both nationally and internationally and is currently supervising 5 PhD students and is in active direct collaborations with over 10 research laboratories and Industrial partners internationally. He has worked on EU, EPSRC, NC3Rs and National Institute of Health (NIH, USA) funded programmes for developing novel optical imaging techniques for detection and characterisation of breast cancer, development of optical imaging methods with direct applications in neuroimaging as well as dual-modality pre-clinical imaging systems for luminescence biomarkers. He is a Member of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and an elected fellow of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America). 

He was the coordinator of the EU-funded Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Innovative Training Network “BITMAP”: Brain Imaging for Trauma Monitoring with Advanced Photonics with ten partner academic institutions, including two industrial partners. In the last 10 years, he has attracted over £10 million in external funding. 

The seminar is open to anyone interested. We hope you will join us for an engaging seminar! 

For more information, please contact Research Community Coordinator Cristina Florea, email cristina.florea@uef.fi.