Staff profiles

Dr Vijayalakshmi Ahanathapillai

Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering

Viji received a B.Eng in Electronics and Communication Engineering (1999-2003) from Thiagarajar College of Engineering in India, and a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the Centre for Signal and Image Processing at the University of Strathclyde (2005-2010). During her PhD research, Viji developed an automated...

Dr James Barnett

Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences

Dr Barnett joined BCU in 2019, and enjoys teaching on the Biomedical Sciences degree course. He is passionate about science and has had a varied career spending time working in both industry and academia. He has worked on numerous research projects investigating topics such as bacterial protein transport, metalloproteomics, and...

Dr Bisola Biobaku-Mutingwende

Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Bisola Mutingwende is a Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering within the department of Life Sciences. As a BCU Alumni, she completed her PhD in Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Technology and first degree in BSc. Engineering Product Design specialising in healthcare technology (then called UCE). In between these, Bisola...

Ian Chell

Visiting Lecturer for Biomedical Engineering

Ian Chell MSc FSRP, is the visiting lecturer working with Viji on the Medical Device module. Ian is an experienced x-ray and medical engineer who obtained his Master of Science in Medical Electronics and Physics at St Barts Medical School, now QM Westfield. Ian started his career in 1976 as an apprentice with Siemens Energy...

Dr Martin Goldberg

Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology

After completing his degree in Bacteriology and Genetics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, he worked for several years as a Biomedical Scientist in the large microbiology labs at Leicester Royal Infirmary. During this time, he became a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences. Martin then moved to the Genetics...

Dr Irmgard Haussmann

Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences

Irmgard is a Senior Lectures in Biomedical Sciences and teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level. In her role as Director of Postgraduate Research Degrees for Life and Sport she leads all aspects of recruitment and student experiences for PhD Life and Sport Sciences. Having previously worked at Brandeis...

Dr David Charles Hughes

Head of Department

David has the following qualifications: BSc Biochemistry (UMIST), PhD Cancer Research (University of Surrey/Marie Curie Research Institute/UWCM, Cardiff). David has 18 years of teaching experience at University of Birmingham, University of Derby and Nottingham Trent University. He has taught at foundation, level 4-6...

Dr Vivek Indramohan

Associate Professor and Course Lead - Biomedical Engineering

With an overseas research student award (ORSAS) and University of Strathclyde scholarship, Vivek completed his Ph.D. (in Bioengineering) in 2009. Following the completion of his research degree, he commenced his work as a Research Assistant at University College of London (UCL) for 6 months, during which he was successful in...

Dr Leila Jahangiri

Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences

Prior to obtaining a lectureship at Birmingham City University in October 2019, Dr Jahangiri completed a 6-month teaching stint as a Biomedical Lecturer at UBMS. At BCU, she is studying core regulatory circuitries in defining neuroblastoma cancer cell identity and mechanisms of diversion from normal developmental pathways. She...

Dr Pat James

Associate Professor Curriculum Lead for Bioscience

Following her PhD in Biochemistry Pat did post doctoral research in the field of endocrinology before moving into teaching. She has been teaching Science subjects for over thirty years in both Further and Higher Education. Although she now primarily teach Bioscience at Birmingham City University a more recent part of her...