Athanasios Tsanas

Thanasis studied Engineering for his undergraduate and MSc degrees and completed a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Oxford (2012). He continued working at Oxford as a Research Fellow in Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (2012-2016), Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering Science (2014-2016), and Lecturer in Statistical Research Methods (2016-2019). He currently holds the Chair (Full Professor, tenured) in Digital Health and Data Science at the Usher Institute, Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, where he is Director of Knowledge Exchange and Research Impact. He is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Bayes Innovation Fellow, and has current Visiting Professor appointments at Imperial College London (UK) and Zhejiang University (China).

He received the Andrew Goudie award (top PhD student across all disciplines, St. Cross College, University of Oxford, 2011), the EPSRC Doctoral Prize award (2012) as one of only 8 Oxford PhD students across 11 departments, the young scientist award (MAVEBA, 2013), the EPSRC Statistics and Machine Learning award (2015), and the BIOSTEC/Biosignals Best paper award (2021). He is Co-founder of the NHS Digital Academy, the first national digital health informatics leadership programme, where he led the development and delivery of the ‘Clinical Decision Support and Actionable Data Analytics’ theme (2018-2022). He sits on the Editorial Boards of JMIR Mental Health, JMIR mHealth and uHealth, and Frontiers in Neurology, and has served as Guest Editor in five other journals. His work has been featured in the media, including Reuters, and has been taken up by various industrial partners, including Intel Corporation, LSVT Global, GSK, and Abbott. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.