Improving healthcare with light and sound
Christian is a senior post-doctoral researcher with 15 years’ experience in biomedical ultrasound research. He has worked at the King’s Department of Surgical and Interventional Engineering since 2020, developing miniature ultrasonic, fibre-optic and photoacoustic technologies to assist with minimally invasive interventions.
He is currently a researcher on the Endotheranostics ERC Synergy project, developing miniature all-optical ultrasound imaging and photoacoustic microscopy devices for a novel soft robot for colonoscopy.
Previously (2023 to 2025) he was technical lead on a translational research project that aimed to bring recent advancements in real-time ultrasonic and photo-acoustic tracking of intraoperative needles to the clinic.
From 2020 to 2023 Christian worked in the CAI4CAI research group developing a real-time needle tracking system for fetal medicine as part of GiFT-Surg.
Christian received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from King's College London in 2020 while working as a Senior Research Scientist in Medical Ultrasonics at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), where his research interests included ultrasound computed tomography for breast cancer detection, ultrasound metrology and field measurement. Prior to starting at NPL in 2009, he completed his BSc (2008, ISVR, University of Southampton) and MSc (2009, University of Edinburgh) degrees in Acoustical Engineering and Signal Processing respectively.