Jonathan Shapey is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Neurosurgeon at King’s College London / King’s College Hospital and is also Clinical Advisor and Co-Founder of Hypervision Surgical Ltd. Jonathan’s research interests relate to the clinical application of medical technologies for neurosurgery.

Andy’s career spans over 30 years in R&D for small, medium and large enterprises including ICI, J&J, Biocompatibles and BTG International. He is currently R&D Director for Owen Mumford Ltd, where he is shaping R&D strategy and building an innovation pipeline of novel combination product drug delivery and blood sampling devices. He has previously pioneered development of advanced biomedical polymers, implantable and injection-based drug delivery systems across a range of disease areas, particularly for use in minimally-invasive image-guided therapies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University London and the University of Brighton.

Danny McAuley is a Consultant and Professor in Intensive Care Medicine at the Regional Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Queen’s University of Belfast. He undertook his training in Belfast, Birmingham, London, and San Francisco. He is Programme Director for the MRC/NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme. He has several research interests including acute respiratory distress syndrome and clinical trials.

Sarah Bohndiek is a Professor of Biomedical Physics in the Department of Physics and at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. The broad mission of Sarah’s interdisciplinary team, the VISIONLab, is to advance our understanding of tumour evolution using next-generation imaging sciences. They are particularly interested in the study of blood vessel formation in early cancer. Sarah has also acted as an ambassador for public engagement and interdisciplinary research training throughout her career.

Stefan Nolte is professor of laser physics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, where he is heading the Ultrafast Optics group at the Institute of Applied Physics. He is also the Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer IOF, Jena.

He studied physics at the University of Hannover, Germany, from where he received his diploma in 1995 and his PhD in 1999 on micromachining with ultrashort laser pulses.

His research topic is the application of ultrashort laser pulses with the main focus on ultrashort pulse micromachining and materials modification for industrial and medical applications, where he has been actively engaged since the field’s inception in the mid-1990s. This work has spurred the industrial use of ultrashort pulse lasers in materials processing.