David Delpy

David Delpy
Born David Thomas Delpy
August 11, 1948[1]
Fields
Institutions University College London
Alma mater
  • Brunel University
  • UCL
Known for CEO of EPSRC[2]
Notable awards

David Thomas Delpy, CBE FRS FMedSci FREng[4] (born 11 August 1948), is a British bioengineer, and Hamamatsu Professor of Medical Photonics, at University College London.[1][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Education

Delpy was educated at Heaton Grammar School in Newcastle. He went on to study at Brunel University, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Physics. He was awarded a Doctor of Science degree by University College London in Medical physics.[1]

Career

Delpy was Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.[2][11][12][13]

As of 2014, he is chairman of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council[14] and a member of the strategic advisory board of the EPSRC’s quantum technologies programme.[2]

Awards and honours

Delpy was appointed CBE in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to engineering and scientific research.[15] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.[1]He was also elected a Fellow[16] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[17] in 2002.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "DELPY, Prof. David Thomas". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 No regrets, says outgoing EPSRC chief David Delpy, Times Higher Education 2014-04-17
  3. ↑ "List of Fellows".
  4. ↑ "List of Fellows".
  5. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  6. ↑ David Delpy's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  7. ↑ Delpy, D. T.; Cope, M.; Zee, P. V. D.; Arridge, S.; Wray, S.; Wyatt, J. (1988). "Estimation of optical pathlength through tissue from direct time of flight measurement". Physics in Medicine and Biology 33 (12): 1433–1442. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/33/12/008. PMID 3237772.
  8. ↑ Wray, S; Cope, M; Delpy, D. T.; Wyatt, J. S.; Reynolds, E. O. (1988). "Characterization of the near infrared absorption spectra of cytochrome aa3 and haemoglobin for the non-invasive monitoring of cerebral oxygenation". Biochimica et biophysica acta 933 (1): 184–92. PMID 2831976.
  9. ↑ Arridge, S. R.; Schweiger, M; Hiraoka, M; Delpy, D. T. (1993). "A finite element approach for modeling photon transport in tissue". Medical Physics 20 (2): 299–309. doi:10.1118/1.597069. PMID 8497214.
  10. ↑ Cope, M; Delpy, D. T. (1988). "System for long-term measurement of cerebral blood and tissue oxygenation on newborn infants by near infra-red transillumination". Medical & biological engineering & computing 26 (3): 289–94. PMID 2855531.
  11. ↑ Delpy, D.; Ankel-Simons, F; Chatrath, P. S.; Kay, R. S.; Williams, B; Fleagle, J. G.; Gebo, D. L.; Beard, C. K.; Dawson, M; Tattersall, I; Rose, K. D. (2009). "Peer review and impact statements vital to UK research". Nature 460 (7254): 456. doi:10.1038/460456b. PMID 19626090.
  12. ↑ Delpy, David; Armitt, John (2011). "Physical sciences: Research council will support excellence". Nature 479 (7373): 299. doi:10.1038/479299d.
  13. ↑ Bhattacharya, Ananyo (2012). "Science funding: Duel to the death. Physicists, chemists and mathematicians in the United Kingdom are furious about funding reforms that they say threaten blue-skies research". Nature 488 (7409): 20–2. doi:10.1038/488020a. PMID 22859184.
  14. ↑ "New chair of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council". GOV.UK. 14 January 2014.
  15. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60895. p. b9. 14 June 2014.
  16. ↑ "List of Fellows".
  17. ↑ "List of Fellows".

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