Tom Whyntie

I am a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Oxford's Department of Oncology, and Director of Studies for the Department’s MSc in Medical Physics with Radiobiology and MSc in Radiobiology. My current role combines my experience with particle physics, big data, and medical imaging. I started out in particle physics, working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) and Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC (MoEDAL) experiments looking for dark matter and magnetic monopoles respectively. While a Public Engagement Fellow for the UK Science and Technology Facilities, Council, I worked extensively in engaging wider publics with research and large-scale computing with the GridPP Collaboration and the CERN@school research programme. I then entered the world of medical imaging through the analysis of clinical and research neuroimaging datasets, including the UK Biobank. I read Natural Sciences at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, specialising in Experimental and Theoretical Physics, and I completed my PhD at Imperial College London‘s High Energy Physics group and CERN.