Personal Chair: Peter Hoskins

Peter Hoskins has been made a Personal Chair in Medical Physics and Biomechanics.

Professor Hoskins studied physics at the University of Oxford from 1977 to 1980.

He worked as a trainee medical physicist in Lincolnshire for four years.

In 1984, he joined the Medical Physics department in Edinburgh, where he combined research work in ultrasound imaging with hospital service work in diagnostic radiology.

He was awarded a PhD in 1990 for work in obstetric Doppler, and has gained major UK and European prizes (IPEM Founders Prize 1993, Euroson Young Investigator Award 1993).

In 1998, he was promoted to Consultant Medical Physicist. He moved to a University appointment in 2006.

His research has been concerned with the development of ultrasound techniques for diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, patient-specific modelling and elastography.

He has published 110 refereed journal papers, is principal author of three books, and was awarded DSc (2009) for his work on arterial mechanics.

He is Programme Director for the MSc in Biomechanics and was awarded a PGCert in University Teaching in 2012.

He has fellowships from the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (1994) and the Institute of Physics (2007).

He currently sits on the editorial advisory board of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and of the British Journal of Radiology, and on several national committees including the IPEM Council and BMUS Council.