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- Professor of Computat ional Imaging Science
- Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng
- Faculty of Engineering Science
Professor David Hawkes graduated from Oxford with a BA in Natural Sciences (Physics) in 1974 and obtained an MSc in Radiolobiology in Birmingham in 1975. His first post was as a clinical scientist in nuclear medicine at Southampton General Hospital. After obtaining his PhD in 1982 at the University of Surrey and the Institute of Cancer Research he spent seven years working as a clinical scientist at St. George’s Hospital, London, before returning in 1988 to academia at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals (UMDS), where he received a personal Chair in 1998.
He was elected FMedSci in 2011, FBIR in 2007, FREng in 2002, FInstP in 1997 and FIPEM in 1993. He became an NIHR Senior Investigator in 2009.
- Biomaterial and Tissue Engineering Group
- CoMPLEX Research Group
- Imaging
- Institute of Healthcare Engineering
- UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing
- UCL Computational Biology
- UCL Medical-Modelling Group
- Vision and Imaging Science Research Group
- Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences
- ZZ - Computer Science Associated Staff


Most of Professor Hawkes’ translational work is done with some commercial sponsorship and Professor Hawkes is a strong advocate of the need for researchers to work with both healthcare providers and industry. He is co-founder of IXICO Ltd (www.ixico.com) a university spin-out that provides imaging solutions to the pharmaceutical industry, and was Director for several years. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of several small start-ups and research organisations.
Professor Hawkes gave the Crookshank Lecture to the Royal College of Radiologist in 2008 and the Wilhelm Roentgen Honorary Lecture to the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna in 2006.
Professor Dave Hawkes founded the Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) at UCL in 2005 and has directed it since then. He has been co-Director of the CR-UK, EPSRC and DoH funded joint UCL/KCL Comprehensive Cancer Imaging Centre since 2011. He was Chairman of the Division of Imaging Sciences at KCL between 2002 and 2004 and Director of the £8M EPSRC and MRC funded IRC in Medical Images and Signals from 2003-2007.
Since 2010 he has been Director of the EPSRC Programme "Intelligent Imaging: Motion, Form and Function across Scale" and co-Director of the CR-UK/EPSRC joint UCL KCL Cancer Imaging Centre.
Professor Hawkes' teaching is primarily done on the Masters modules associated with the MSc in Medical Image Computing and the MRes in Medical and Biomedical Imaging. He coordinates and delivers most of the lectures on the course "Medical image analysis and image directed therapy".
In 2009 he co-founded the UCL Doctoral Training Programme in Medical and Biomedical Imaging to provide a coherent postgraduate training by MRes, coupled with a PhD by research. He was DTP director from 2009 - 2010. The DTP has recruited 43 students from 2009-2012 using a wide range of funding sources.
He also gives guest lectures on a range of courses within UCL and elsewhere.
1982 | PhD | Doctor of Philosophy – Medical Physics | University of Surrey |
1975 | MSc | Master of Science – Radiobiology | University of Birmingham |
1974 | BA Hons | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) – Physics | University of Oxford |