Meet the team Who's behind the Moorfields Reading Centre?

Clinical Trials & Image Grading

Image of Dr Konstantinos Balaskas

Expertise: Image Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Trials, Digital Eye Health.

Dr Konstantinos Balaskas

Director of Reading Centre
Image of Khadra Adan

Expertise: Virtual Clinics, Managing Clinical Trials.

Khadra Adan

Senior Virtual Clinics Grader and Failsafe officer
Image of Dr Dun Jack Fu

Expertise: Geographic Atrophy, Molecular biology, Gene therapy, Genetics, Large data analysis

Dr Dun Jack Fu

Investigator
Image of Dr Estelle Ioannidou

Expertise: Clinical Research, OCTA, NLP

Dr Estelle Ioannidou

Clinical Research Fellow
Image of Rosana Lia Lima

Expertise: Grader

Rosana Lia Lima

Senior Ophthalmic Science Practitioner/Grader
Image of Dr Ana Paula Ribeiro Reis

Expertise: Clinical Research.

Dr Ana Paula Ribeiro Reis

Clinical Research Fellow
Image of Dr Cathy Egan

Diabetic Retinopathy, Macular Telangiectasia type II, Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Clinical Trials

Dr Cathy Egan

Diabetic Retinopathy Lead/ MacTel study Lead
Image of Dr Daniela Florea

Expertise: Grading, Clinical Trials, Nutrition.

Dr Daniela Florea

Image Grader
Image of Georgina Wignall

Expertise: Ophthalmic Research, Grading.

Georgina Wignall

Senior Ophthalmic Science Practitioner and Grader
Image of Nisha Shah

Expertise: Grading.

Nisha Shah

Image Grader
Image of Tjebo Heeren

Medical Retina, MacTel, Clinical Trials, Image Analysis

Tjebo Heeren

Research Fellow
Image of Dr Philipp Müller

Image Analysis, Big Data Science, Artificial Intelligence

Dr Philipp Müller

Honorary Research Fellow
Image of Dr Hagar Khalid

Image analysis, optical coherence tomography angiography

Dr Hagar Khalid

Visiting Research Fellow
Image of Irene Leung

Expertise: Grading.

Irene Leung

Senior Expert Grader
Image of Alexandra Winston

Expertise: Virtual Clinics.

Alexandra Winston

Senior Virtual Clinics Grader

Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

Image of Dr Nikolas Pontikos

Expertise: Data Science, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Genetics & Bioinformatics.

Dr Nikolas Pontikos

Deputy Director and Data Science Lead
Image of Dr Ismail Moghul

Expertise: Data Science, Software Development, Image Analysis, AI, Deep Learning.

Dr Ismail Moghul

Senior Computer Scientist
Image of Dr Gunjan Naik

Expertise: Medical Retina, Clinical Trials, Image Analysis, AI, Deep Learning.

Dr Gunjan Naik

Senior Computer Scientist
Image of Dr Pallavi Bagga

Expertise: Multi-modal Imaging, Image Analysis, AI, Deep Learning.

Dr Pallavi Bagga

Senior Computer Scientist
Image of Gongyu Zhang

Expertise: Deep Learning, Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence.

Gongyu Zhang

AI Computer Scientist

Rishi Ramessur

Fellow in Clinical Artificial Intelligence, AI Centre for Value-based Healthcare and Moorfields Eye Hospital
Image of Dr Alan Sousa da Silva

Expertise: Data Science, Software Development, Image Analysis, Computer Vision and Ophthalmologic applications with AI/ML.

Dr Alan Sousa da Silva

Senior Scientific Programmer and Data Scientist
Image of Robbert Struyven

Expertise: Deep Learning, Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence

Robbert Struyven

AI Computer Scientist
Image of Timing Liu

Expertise: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Genetics & Bioinformatics.

Timing Liu

AI Computer Scientist
Image of Dr Siegfried Wagner

Expertise: Epidemiology, biostatistics, image analysis, oculomics, data science

Dr Siegfried Wagner

MRC Clinical Research Training, Specialty Registrar in Ophthalmology

Operational Management & Business Support

Image of Craig Mc Leisch

Project Manager for the Reading Centre

Craig Mc Leisch

Project Manager
Image of Claire Lovegrove

Digital Innovation Programme Manager

Claire Lovegrove

Project Manager

External collaborators & advisers

Image of Adnan Tufail

Big Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Diabetic Retinopathy, Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Adnan Tufail

Professor of Ophthalmology
Image of Cathy Egan

Macular Telangiectasia type II, Diabetic Retinopathy, Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Cathy Egan

Consultant Ophthalmologist, Diabetic Retinopathy Lead
Image of Pearse Keane

Expertise: Image Interpretation and Diagnosis, Retinal Disease, Applied Clinical and Translational Research

Pearse Keane

Professor of Medical Artificial Intelligence
Image of Ted Garway-Heath

International Glaucoma Association Professor of Ophthalmology for Glaucoma & Allied Studies

Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK

Ted Garway-Heath

International Glaucoma Association Professor of Ophthalmology for Glaucoma & Allied Studies
Image of Michel Michaelides

Inherited Eye Disease, Diabetic Eye Disease, Clinical Trials, Gene Therapy

Michel Michaelides

Professor of Ophthalmology
Image of Tony Robson

Electrophysiology, inherited eye disease, clinical trials

Tony Robson

Professor of Ophthalmology