Life Sciences staff

Dr Faizan Ahmad

Lecturer

Dr Faizan Ahmad possesses experience in the multidisciplinary fields of engineering within the industry and academia. He has worked in different roles in mechanical and biomedical engineering disciplines, with a primary emphasis on engineering, biomedical and soft tissue material mechanics. He served as a design, stress,...

Dr James Barnett

Senior Lecturer (Biomedical Sciences)

James graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2000 with a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and Genetics. James’ first graduate job was at The Binding Site Ltd, where he was employed as a technician In the monoclonal antibodies department. James later embarked on a research career, and in 2002 joined the group of Professor Colin...

Ian Chell

Visiting Lecturer for Biomedical Engineering

Ian Chell MSc FSRP, is the visiting lecturer working with Viji on the Medical Device module. Ian is an experienced x-ray and medical engineer who obtained his Master of Science in Medical Electronics and Physics at St Barts Medical School, now QM Westfield. Ian started his career in 1976 as an apprentice with Siemens Energy...

Dr Kwabena Duedu

Associate Professor in Life Sciences

Kwabena joined BCU in 2023 as Associate Professor in Life Sciences having worked as Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences in Ghana and a Global Health Fellow at the Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2015. He worked as a...

Dr Syed Ghufran Khalid

Visiting Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering

Dr Syed Ghufran Khalid is a visiting lecturer for Biomedical Engineering within the department of life sciences, currently working with Bisola Biobaku-Mutingwende on the STEMM module for MSc students. He is also working as a MEMS engineer at Guys and St Thomas Hospital. Before joining the hospital, he had been working as a...

Dr Martin Goldberg

Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology

Martin has a wide range of expertise which includes clinical and diagnostic microbiology, bacterial molecular biology / genetics, food microbiology / safety, discovery of novel antimicrobial compounds and bacterial physiology. This range of expertise is vital when working in a biomedical environment where a broad knowledge is...

Dr Irmgard Haussmann

Associate Professor in Health Sciences

Irmgard is an Associate Professor in Health Sciences and teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level. In her role as Director of Postgraduate Research Degrees for Life and Sport she leads all aspects of recruitment and student experiences for PhD Life and Sport Sciences. Having previously worked at Brandeis...

Professor John Howl

Professor of Life Sciences

Professor John Howl graduated from the University of Birmingham where he pursued a PhD in the field of muscle cell physiology and pathology supervised by Dr S. J. Publicover. Following an extended post-doctoral period in Birmingham, during which he was supported by two personal grants from the British Heart Foundation, he...

Dr David Charles Hughes

Associate Professor in Life Sciences

David has the following qualifications: BSc Biochemistry (UMIST), PhD Cancer Research (University of Surrey/Marie Curie Research Institute/UWCM, Cardiff). David has 18 years of teaching experience at University of Birmingham, University of Derby and Nottingham Trent University. He has taught at foundation, level 4-6...

Dr Vivek Indramohan

Associate Professor and Course Lead - Biomedical Engineering

With an overseas research student award (ORSAS) and University of Strathclyde scholarship, Vivek completed his Ph.D. (in Bioengineering) in 2009. Following the completion of his research degree, he commenced his work as a Research Assistant at University College of London (UCL) for 6 months, during which he was successful in...