Royal Academy of Engineering elects Oxford researchers
09 Jul 08
Two Oxford researchers have been made Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Professor Alison Noble and Professor Tony Wilson from the Department of Engineering Science have been recognised alongside other leading academics and commercial engineers.
Professor Noble heads a research group, the Biomedical Image Analysis (BioMedIA) Laboratory, within the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and is described by the academy as a ‘cardiac ultrasound expert’.
‘I have worked very hard with my research group, and clinical colleagues over the last 13 years to establish an internationally leading laboratory in biomedical image analysis that now has established programmes of research in cardiovascular, oncological and women's health imaging,’ said Professor Noble, a Fellow of Wolfson College. ‘It is always rewarding to see our research acknowledged through peer-review publications etc, but especially rewarding to be given this personal recognition for my efforts.’
Professor Alison NobleI have worked very hard with my research group, and clinical colleagues over the last 13 years to establish an internationally leading laboratory in biomedical image analysis
Professor Wilson, a Fellow of Hertford College, was given the award for his seminal contributions to confocal microscopy, arguably one of the most significant advances in light microscopy in the last century. His work, which led to the marketing of the first commercial instrument, has also resulted in the introduction of fundamentally new approaches to 3D imaging in microscopy.
Professor Wilson said: ‘I am absolutely thrilled and delighted to be elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering. It also, of course, reflects the considerable talents of all the colleagues with whom I have the privilege to work.’
Professor Noble and Professor Wilson are two of the 44 engineers who have been elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering this year. They join people like Queen Mary 2 designer Stephen Payne, international development champion Jo da Silva from Arup, and John Loughhead, leader of the UK Energy Research Centre.
‘Our new Fellows are among the very best engineers working in the UK today,’ said Academy President Lord Browne of Madingley. ‘They are pushing the technical boundaries across the most challenging fields from medical imaging to aeronautics and energy technology. Together they demonstrate that engineering is at the heart of modern society.’