Summary
James is a Research Associate in the Hamlyn Centre, Institute of Global Health Innovation and the Department of Surgery and Cancer, St Mary's Hospital. He received an MEng in Acoustical Engineering at the ISVR at the University of Southampton and completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at University College London in 2015. There he continued his work as an EPSRC Doctoral Research Fellow, developing Electrical Impedance Tomography methods for brain imaging as part of Prof. David Holder’s Neurophysiology lab.
Clinical studies during this time brought into sharp focus the benefits that good, open and reproducible engineering can have for patients and strengthened his desire to translate his work into clinical practice. Since 2018 he has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, seeking to develop new sensor technologies for surgery.
His research interests include:
- Electrical Impedance Tomography
- Surgical Robotics
- Soft sensors
- Implantable and wearable sensors
- Open source biomedical devices and methods
- Fixing things, more than likely after having broken them in the first place. Particularly 3D printers.
Publications
Journals
Wei J, Monfort Sanchez E, Avery J, et al., 2022, Non-invasive assessment of intestinal permeability in healthy volunteers using transcutaneous fluorescence spectroscopy, Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, ISSN:2050-6120
DeLorey C, Davids JD, Cartucho J, et al., 2022, A cable‐driven soft robotic end‐effector actuator for probe‐based confocal laser endomicroscopy: Development and preclinical validation, Translational Biophotonics, ISSN:2627-1850
Runciman M, Avery J, Darzi A, et al., 2021, Open loop position control of soft hydraulic actuators for minimally invasive surgery, Applied Sciences-basel, Vol:11, ISSN:2076-3417, Pages:1-16
Conference
Avery J, Runciman M, Fiani C, et al., 2022, Lumen shape reconstruction using a soft robotic balloon catheter andelectrical impedance tomography, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, ISSN:2153-0866
Monfort Sanchez E, Avery J, Darzi A, et al., 2022, Development of a compact fluorescence spectroscopy sensor for non-invasive monitoring gut function, Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2022, Optica Publishing Group