Explore webinar
It is a webinar hosted by the University of Edinburgh allowing companies and organisations to hear directly from our leading researchers.
The webinar features experts from different areas sharing insight into their expertise and giving examples of concrete applications.
The Explore webinar offer a unique opportunity for organisations across multiple sectors to learn about the recent research and capabilities in medical imaging, sensing and analytics and more.
14 January 2026 2.00-3.00pm Explore webinar:
- Explore: Medical Sensing – Medical sensing applications of Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) – Robert Henderson
- Explore: Medical Imaging – Novel clinical imaging capabilities at the University of Edinburgh – Edinburgh Imaging – Scott Semple
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Speaker presentations
Professor Robert K. Henderson is a Professor of Electronic Imaging in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD in 1990 from the University of Glasgow. From 1991, he was a research engineer at the Swiss Centre for Microelectronics, Neuchatel, Switzerland. In 1996, he was appointed senior VLSI engineer at VLSI Vision Ltd, Edinburgh, UK where he worked on the world’s first single chip video camera. From 2000, as principal VLSI engineer in STMicroelectronics Imaging Division he developed image sensors for mobile phone applications. He joined University of Edinburgh in 2005, designing the first SPAD image sensors in nanometer CMOS technologies in the MegaFrame and SPADnet EU projects. This research activity led to the first volume SPAD time-of-flight products in 2013 in the form of STMicroelectronics FlightSense series, which perform an autofocus-assist now present in over 2 billion smartphones. He benefits from a long-term research partnership with STMicroelectronics in which he explores medical, scientific and high speed imaging applications of SPAD technology. In 2014, he was awarded a prestigious ERC advanced fellowship. He is an advisor to Ouster Automotive and a Fellow of the IEEE and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Professor Scott Semple is the personal chair of Medical Imaging and Physics and scientific director of Edinburgh Imaging at the University of Edinburgh. His particular focus is non-invasive clinical imaging of cardiovascular disease, specifically in the development and application of novel imaging agents, such as targeted MRI contrast agents, and novel PET radiotracers. Edinburgh Imaging is a clinical imaging partnership between the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian, focussed on the delivery of cutting-edge cross sectional human imaging research using MRI, PET and CT scanners and the development of novel non-invasive imaging biomarkers. The facility houses advanced MRI scanners dedicated to research, Scotland’s only Total Body PET Scanner with associated on-site cyclotron and Radiochemistry facilities, and Scotland’s only Photon Counting CT scanner. Edinburgh Imaging develops and applies novel biomarkers across a broad range of clinical applications, body areas and disease processes.