CANDO - Key Persons


Dr Andrew Sims

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Northern Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department / Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Andrew Sims leads the team responsible for the regulatory review and approval of the implantable device for the CANDO project.

Dr Faye McLeod

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate - Electrophysiology and Translational Research
  • Research Team

Dr Fiona LeBeau

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Dr Frances Hutchings

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant - Computer Modelling
  • Research Team

Dr Gavin Clowry

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Dr Helen Bosomworth

Job Titles:
  • Research Project Manager
Helen is responsible for co-ordinating internal and external components of the project.

Dr James Blake

Dr James Blake is responsible for providing regulatory support in relation to the active implantable device.

Dr Lynda Speed

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager
Dr Lynda Speed is responsible for commercialisation opportunities and intellectual property.

Dr Marco Bocchio

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Research Team

Dr Richard G Bailey

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate - Optrode Fabrication
  • Research Team

Miss Aaliyah Patel

Job Titles:
  • Clean Room Fabrication Technician - Design & Build
  • Research Team

Mr Ahmad Shah Idil

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant - Passivation Housing / Sensing
  • Research Team

Mr Chris Cowie

Job Titles:
  • Consultant Neurosurgeon
  • Research Team

Mr Dimitrios Firfilionis

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
  • Research Assistant - System Integration
Dimitrios is a Research Assistant within the School of Engineering.

Mr Johannes Gausden

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate - Bioelectronic Device Fabrication
  • Research Team

Mr Lalit Miyan

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate - CMOS Microelectronics
  • Research Team

Mr Mark Turnbull

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant - Electrophysiology and Translational Research
  • Research Team
Mark Turnbull works within WP2 on in vivo and in vitro experiments.

Prof Andrew Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Co - Principal Investigator
  • Professor
  • Professor of Neural Interfaces
Prof Andrew Jackson is co-principal investigator for the CANDO project alongside Prof Anthony O'Neill, with responsibility for Operations.

Prof Andrew Trevelyan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Network Neuroscience
Professor Andrew Trevelyan leads CANDO Work Package 2 - Functional Characterisation.

Prof Anthony O'Neill

Job Titles:
  • Co - Principal Investigator
  • Professor
  • Siemens Professor of Microelectronics
Prof Anthony O'Neill is co-principal investigator for the CANDO project alongside Prof Andrew Jackson, with responsibility for Strategy.

Prof Marcus Kaiser

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor of Neuroinformatics / School of Medicine
Frances is a research assistant in computer modelling, working with Professor Marcus Kaiser.

Prof Nick Donaldson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Neuroprosthesis Engineering

Prof Patrick Degenaar

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Neuroprosthetics
Prof Patrick Degenaar leads CANDO Work Package 1 - Implant Fabrication.

Prof Roger Whittaker

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology
Dr Roger Whittaker leads CANDO Work Package 3 - Device Implantation.

Prof Stuart Baker

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Movement Neuroscience

Prof Timothy Constandinou

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Bioelectronics