Martin J. Leahy DPhil (Oxon.) CPhys OpticaF FSPIE FInstP Martin Leahy is the Chair of Applied Physics and a serial entrepreneur having been technical andor managerial lead of several successful spin-out companies in biophotonics and energy. Since his return to academia he has provided leadership as founding Director of the National Biophotonics and Imaging Platform, founding its education board and founding and chairing the International Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School (BIGSS). He has presided over several large research projects involving several groups. His main research interest is in the advancement of existing technologies such as laser Doppler and laser speckle as well as the development of new modalities such as TiVi and cmOCT for 2D, 3D and 4D imaging of the microcirculation. His group has invented the heart rate app which is now in use by more than 500 million people as well as cmOCT to image the microcirculation, nanosensitive OCT to sense nanostructure and multiple reference OCT to achieve a 100-fold reduction in size and cost. More recently, his group have developed a label-free superresolution microscope and synthetic OCT. He secured more than 14M in external R amp;D funding since 2007 and his citation rate is rapidly rising since his return to academia. He is the coordinator of STARSTEM and partner in two other H2020 projects. Since 2010 he has delivered 60 international invitedkeynote lectures and published more than 60 senior author journal articles and more than 500 patents cite his work. Professor Leahy retains a healthy involvement in industrial R amp;D, collaborating with start-ups like Compact Imaging and iThera and multinationals like Covidien and Fujifilm.

Tissue optics and microcirculation imaging, biophotonics, photonics, photoacoustics, optical coherence tomography (OCT), blood perfusion, skin, brain, microvascular and vascular imaging, biomedical imaging relating to cancer, diabetes and the eye.img alt=Photoacoustic image of the blood vessels of the human forearm src=http:dx.doi.org10.11171.JBO.20.5.051021.1

PH140 Physics for Engineers lectures PH101 Physicslabs PH508 Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School PH505317341 MSc Occupational Health and Safety NIR lectures PH109 Physics Special Topics PH430 Biophotonics Third year labs withArduino and biomedical optics Final year projects in biophotonics and imaging MSc Medical PhysicsProjectsAd hoc teaching at international summer schools including some regular commitmentsHosting visiting students with an interest in developing skills in tissue optics and microcirculation imaging