Clare Elwell
Clare Elwell | |
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| Alma mater | University of Exeter BSc. MPhil. University College London (PhD) |
| Awards | Melvin H. Kniseley International Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Oxygen Transport to Tissue[1] (1995)
Suffrage Science Award[2] (2013) Inspirational Teacher Award, UK (2014) Women in Science and Engineering Research Award[3] (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Thesis | Measurement and Data Analysis Techniques for the Investigation of Adult Cerebral Haemodynamics (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Mark Cope David Delpy |
| Website | www |
Education and Career
Elwell was awarded a BSc. in Physics and Medical Physics at the University of Exeter in 1988. She remained in Exeter to work as a Clinical Physicist in Devon and Exeter Hospital, obtaining a MPhil in 1991 researching measurements in the diagnosis and treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea. She left her job as a clinical physicist to work as a research fellow in the groundbreaking neonatal intensive care research team at the Paediatrics Department of University College London. This team had made the first magnetic resonance scans of the newborn human brain, but were keen to develop tools that could be used at the cotside. Elwell worked under David Delpy and Mark Cope developing novel non invasive tools that used near infrared light (NIRS) to measure newborn brain function in the neonatal intensive care unit. During this period she also worked part time on her own research project, developing new tools with the potential to measure blood flow in the adult brain during surgery. In 1995 this work led to the award of a PhD and the Melvin H. Kniseley International Young Scientist Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Oxygen Transport to Tissue. In 1996 she won a Medical Research Council Non Clinical Research Training Fellowship in the Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering at University College London, moving to Lecturer (1999) and Senior Lecturer (2005) positions in the same department. In 2008 she became a Professor of Medical Physics.
References
- ^ "Awardees - The Official Site of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue". www.isott.org. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
- ^ "Suffrage Science 2013 Events". LMS London Institute of Medical Sciences. 2013-03-14. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
- ^ "WISE Awards 2016 - Welcome to the WISE Campaign". Welcome to the WISE Campaign. Retrieved 2018-11-21.