Dr. David Simpson

BSc, Biomedical Electronics (1978-1981), PhD, Electrical Engineering (1983-1988), Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice (2003-2004).

After schooling in Austria, David Simpson graduated in Biomedical Electronics from the University of Salford (1981), and then worked as a mathematics and physics teacher in Nigeria. He obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1988, initiating his research interests in signal and image processing with applications in medicine. From 1989 to 1998 he was a lecturer in the Biomedical Engineering Program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). He then became a research fellow in the Medical Physics Department of Leicester Royal Infirmary before moving to the University of Southampton (ISVR) in 2001.

David Simpson’s research interests are in the processing and analysis of signals from human subjects, in order to improve diagnostic methods in medicine, and increase the understanding of physiological systems.

 More information is available on Dr. Simpson’s University page.

One of the fundamental approaches to building this particular MSc programme is the involvement of Key stakeholders to help us produce an educational curriculum that is beneficial not only to the academics and industry, but to the students that will be enrolling on it.  Harriet is one of our Student representatives from the University of Southampton!

Student Stakeholder: Harriet Lea-Banks

Harriet is currently in her third year studying for an MEng in Acoustical Engineering at the University of Southampton. Her passion is most obvious when Engineering is applied to a Medical context, with her most recent work applying Biomedical Signal Processing to access Cerebral Autoregulation. Supervised by Dr David Simpson (ISVR), the aim of this undergraduate dissertation project is to identify inter-individual difference in cerebral blood flow regulation mechanisms.

Harriet also holds the position of ISVR Academic President, overseeing and coordinating the course representatives from each year group and each subject within the department. She hopes that this role will inform her contribution to the development of the A.R.T. project.